Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting

Course Currency Status: (Release 1) Current

Course Overview: This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to provide a first aid response to infants, children and adults.

Target Audience: This course applies to educators and support staff working within an education and care setting who are required to respond to a first aid emergency, including asthmatic and anaphylactic emergencies.

Participants must provide a USI number on enrolment and provide photographic identification on enrolment. Participants must provide and wear their own PPE for this course. This course contains safety critical information requiring participants have the ability to read, write and understand English and basic calculations

Pre-requisites: This course has no pre-requisites

Delivery Mode: This course may be delivered by face to face delivery or blended learning

Precourse reading: Up to 8 hours of pre-course reading

Face to Face Learning: 9 hours face to face training in a classroom environment

Learning Outcomes

This course will provide students with skills and knowledge in the following areas:

• Recognise an emergency situation
• Identify, assess and minimise immediate hazards to health and safety of self and others
• Assess the casualty and recognise the need for first aid response
• Assess the situation and seek assistance from emergency response services
• Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in accordance with Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines
• Provide first aid in accordance with established first aid principles
• Ensure casualty feels safe, secure and supported
• Obtain consent from casualty, caregiver, registered medical practitioners or medical emergency services where possible
• Use available resources and equipment to make the casualty as comfortable as possible
• Operate first aid equipment according to manufacturer’s instructions
• Monitor the casualty’s condition and respond in accordance with first aid principles
• Accurately convey details of the incident to emergency response services
• Report details of incident to supervisor
• Complete relevant workplace documentation, including incident report form
• Report details of incidents involving babies and children to parents and/or caregivers
• Follow workplace procedures to report serious incidents to the regulatory authority
• Maintain confidentiality of records and information in line with statutory and/or organisational policies
• Recognise the possible psychological impacts on self, other rescuers and children
• Talk with children about their emotions and responses to events
• Participate in debriefing with supervisor

Assessment is a combination of written questions/answers and practical demonstrations

On Completion: Upon successful completion, participants will be issued with a nationally accredited Statement of Attainment for HLTAID004 Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting

Course dates arranged on demand.