First aid is the help that we provide to an individual at the place of injury, it is the basic care of injuries in order not to worsen the condition or even endanger life. In order to be able to help the injured person, it is good to renew and upgrade our knowledge of first aid. The same applies to professional workers in kindergartens, as children are real little researchers, who often acquire one or another injury on their way to discovery.
In the theoretical part, I used the literature to define what first aid is and what injuries we can encounter when working with children. In doing so, I focused on recognizing the symptoms of a particular injury or situation and how to help the child in this situation. In the following, I took a closer look at the curricula of three subjects attended by a student of the Preschool Department of the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, and looked for contents that can be connected with the contents of first aid.
In the empirical part, with the help of questionnaires from kindergarten professionals, I checked which injuries/conditions of children the educators most often encountered in kindergarten, what is their opinion about their own ability to provide first aid, how do they renew their knowledge of first aid and what kind of first aid education they want.
The results showed that a large part of the respondents encountered the contents of first aid already during school, but they still think that there could be more of these contents. They are of the opinion that even during the time of employment, the kindergarten could organize more trainings on this topic - but on average they are satisfied with the quality and the implementation of the conducted trainings. On average, they described their theoretical and practical knowledge as good, but they are most likely to blame for this (in some places compulsory) education on this topic, which is organized by the kindergarten every few years.
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