Course Overview
Duration: 9 Hours
Cost : From $290
Course Delivery Mode: Blended. Online theory and quizzes with 9 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 a casualty in a remote or isolated site over an extended period of time until medical assistance is provided, or evacuation occurs.
This unit applies to any site where medical assistance is likely to be delayed. First aid is to be provided in line with guidelines determined by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) and other Australian national peak clinical bodies
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
- HLTAID013 Provide First Aid in Remote or Isolated Site
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)
- Identify and evaluate the potential injuries and illness requiring extended management.
- Selecting appropriate first aid response equipment and resources.
- Understanding the challenges of the remote environment in relation to delayed medical assistance, preparing for and delivering first aid in a prolonged context.
- Understanding the challenges of communications and alternative solutions to enhance communications in remote locations
- Coordinate evacuation with a range of medical assistance types including aeromedical
- Triage and incident management
- Managing life threatening bleeding through the use of tourniquets and haemostatic dressings
Applied first aid procedures for the following:
- Allergic reaction and Anaphylaxis
- Asthma and other respiratory distress.
- Conduct basic triage for multiple casualty incident
- Bleeding control using tourniquets and haemostatic dressings
- 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.