Residential care settings: first-aid and CPR standards
First Aid & CPR Manitoba
In Manitoba, personal care homes and home-care services support seniors and adults who need daily assistance. These settings depend on health care aides who can respond to a medical emergency with first aid and CPR.
Settings concerned
Personal care homes and home-care services, staffed by Health Care Aides (HCA) trained in first aid and CPR.
The first-aid requirement
Manitoba Health Care Aide programs include a Standard First Aid certificate and CPR Level C, preparing graduates to work in personal care homes and home care, where they can respond to adults in an emergency and use an AED.
A recognized, up-to-date first-aid/CPR certificate is the way to meet this requirement; it is in addition to the aide's occupational training and must be renewed periodically.
How to meet it
A recognized, up-to-date first-aid and CPR certificate meets this requirement. It is in addition to the required training or assessment, and is renewed periodically.
For organizations: keep your team compliant
When the certificate is an employer requirement, the real challenge is tracking. Our organization system manages a team’s training: a certification dashboard, deadline tracking, automatic renewal reminders and proof archiving. An organization keeps its whole staff current without watching every date by hand.
Training aligned with the latest emergency-care standards
Our CPR, AED and first-aid training is developed in line with the most recent international guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care and first aid.
We rigorously follow the recommendations of ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation), the international body responsible for the scientific evaluation and development of global resuscitation standards. These recommendations serve as a reference for health organizations, institutions and professional orders worldwide — and are updated as scientific and clinical evidence evolves.
Keep your skills current with confidence
Every intervention can make a difference. Keeping CPR and emergency-care skills current is both a professional requirement and a responsibility toward patients, colleagues and the public.
See the recognized first-aid courses in your regionReferences
- University College of the North — Health Care Aide program
- Red River College Polytechnic — Health Care Aide
- ILCOR — International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
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