The document outlines the essential items needed in a first aid kit and describes how to use the kit in three common emergency situations. It recommends including adhesive bandages, gauze pads, gloves, alcohol wipes, bandages, tweezers, scissors, and additional items like antibiotic ointment. It then provides instructions for treating abrasions by cleaning and bandaging, cuts by cleaning, applying pressure, and bandaging, and removing splinters by disinfecting, tweezing out, and covering the site.

1. First Aid Kit Assignment
By: Jocelyn I Waters

2. First Aid Kit Items
• 10-15 Adhesive Bandages (Band-Aids, various
sizes)

3. First Aid Kit Items
• 5-10 Sterile Gauze Pads

4. First Aid Kit Items
• 1 Pair of Disposable Gloves

5. First Aid Kit Items
• 5-10 Alcohol Wipes/Bottle of Hydrogen
Peroxide

6. First Aid Kit Items
• 1 Gauze Bandage/Ace (Tegaderm) Bandage

7. First Aid Kit Items
• 1 Pair of Tweezers (Plastic), 1 Pair of Scissors
and 1 First Aid Book/Pamphlet

8. Additional First Aid Kit Items
• Antibiotic Ointment, Thermometer, and
Aspirin (Pain Relievers)

9. 3 Ways First Aid Kit is Used in An
Emergency Situation
• 1.) Abrasions (Scrapes): You will need: gloves,
gauze pads, and bandages. Put on gloves first,
analyze the scrape or bruise, clean the area
with a sterile clean gauze and apply bandage.
2.) Cuts: you will need: gloves, bandages, and
alcohol or hydrogen peroxide, antibiotic
ointment. Put on gloves first, clean dirty wound
or cut with alcohol wipe or hydrogen perioxide,
then apply pressure to make sure bleeding has
slowed down, apply antibiotic ointment. Then

10. 3 Ways First Aid Kit is Used in an
Emergency Situation
• 3.) Removal and First Aid for a Splinter: You
will need Alcohol wipe/Hydrogen Peroxide,
gloves, Tweezers, and a small bandage. First,
put on your gloves, then clean the site with
alcohol or hydrogen peroxide, then carefully
take the tweezers to grab the splinter and
remove it. Clean site again. Apply with small
bandage, just enough to cover up site.