Course Overview
Duration: 3 Hours
Cost : From $180
Course Delivery Mode: Blended. Online theory and quizzes with 3 hours face to face practical training.
About This Couse:
Students completing this course will gain the skills and knowledge required to provide a first aid response to infants and children in line with first aid guidelines determined by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) and other Australian national peak clinical bodies.
This unit applies to a range of workers within an education and care setting who are required to respond to a first aid emergency, including asthma and anaphylactic emergencies.
This includes early childhood workers and educators who work with school-age children in outside school hours care and vacation programs.
Important Information:
In order to issue an accredited certificate, CPR must be performed on the floor with no exemptions.
We suggest that you wear comfortable casual clothing, as the practical nature of the demonstrations and practice may possibly require bending, kneeling and lying on the floor.
Units Covered:
- HLTAID009 Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- HLTAID010 Provide Basic Emergency Life Support
- HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
- HLTAID012 Provide First Aid In An Education and Care Setting
Training and assessment are done on behalf of ABC First Aid, RTO 3399
What You Will Learn
Followed DRSABCD in line with ARC guidelines:
- How to respond to an emergency situation.
- Calling for emergency help, ringing 000/112.
- Managed the unconscious breathing casualty
- Performed at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted single rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on an infant and adult manikin.
- Manage an unconscious casualty with regurgitation or vomiting
- Demonstration of a rotation of CPR operators with minimal interruptions to compressions
- Followed the prompts of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Applied first aid procedures for the following:
- Allergic reaction and Anaphylaxis
- Asthma and other respiratory distress.
- Bleeding control
- Choking and airway obstruction
- Envenomation, using pressure immobilisation
- Fractures, sprains and strains, using arm slings, roller bandages or other appropriate immobilisation techniques
- Shock
- Casualty assessment
- Safe manual handling techniques
- Verbal or written incident reporting.
- Post incident debrief and evaluation
Course Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisite units required for entry into this course. Learners will require English language, literacy, and numeracy (LLN) skills.
Assessment Requirements:
Assessment activities will include a knowledge test and practical assessments including CPR and First Aid techniques. Students will also complete scenarios in a simulated environment.