1807 – Lifeguard Staffing

Beginner / 2-hour Lecture

 

Fort Myers, FL / Thursday, July 3 – 1:40-4:00 pm – 2.0 credit hours equal to 2.0 CECs/.2 CEUs

(Classroom: 1:40-4:00 pm with 20 minutes of break time)

 

Faculty: Sue Nelson, BS, ATRIC

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Are you hiring the right person for your aquatic environment to lifeguard? Learn some amazing facts that just might help you hire for your aquatic environment. When one takes on the role of hiring a lifeguard, he/she automatical­ly assumes the responsibility of providing a safe environment (around and in the water) for all ages and stages of the community. This should begin with the interview process. Just as the lifeguard needs observation skills so does the person conducting the inter­view. Come to class prepared to share your worst lifeguard story. Learn what to look for in a lifeguard besides the ability to swim. Take home research that might help you hire the right person for the job.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1.  Examine quality assurance.

2.  Discover how to share staff.

3.  Gain insight into life guarding the new “Aquatic Center”.

 

FACULTY:  Sue Nelson, BS, ATRIC, is the Aquatic Programs Specialist for USA Swimming. She teams with her husband, Mick, the Director of USA Swimming's Facilities Development Division. The Nelsons come from a club coaching background and have extensive experience in business and aquatic management. They formed their own swim club and built their own indoor facility in Danville, Illinois, while adding a retail and wholesale pool/spa and aquatic equipment business to the mix. They also offered aquatic facility design, building, and business consultation to the aquatic industry with their company, NSS Inc. In 1994, they formed WaterWay Therapy Inc., which was one of the first and only privately owned and operated Medicare-approved outpatient aquatic physical therapy centers in the country. Poolside Health & Wellness Center was created by the Nelsons in 2002 and became the home for the USA Swim Club, WaterWay Therapy, and Swim America learn-to-swim program, as well as a full-service land and water community health and wellness center. In June 2004, they moved to Colorado Springs, CO, to help form the new Facilities Division of USA Swimming.