HLTAID004
Provide an Emergency First Aid Response
in an Education & Care Setting
This course provides the skills and knowledge required to provide a first aid response to infants, children and adults and specifically 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.
This unit of competency satisfies the requirements set for approved first aid, asthma and anaphylaxis for child careers and educators in a childcare setting. (Specific licensing requirements should be obtained from your body and relevant state WHS authority)
COURSE CONTENT
- D.R.S.A.B.C.D. action plan
- Use of two different types of placebo bronchodilators and a spacer device
- Use of two different types of adrenalin auto injector training devices
- Use of Automated External Defibrillator
- Complete incident, injury, trauma and illness record, or other appropriate workplace incident report form
- Hazard and risk assessment and strategies to minimize risks
- Principles of first aid and chain of survival Basic anatomy and physiology considerations in the provision of first aid and triggers of asthmatic and allergic reactions
- Basic anatomical differences between a child and an adult
- Legal, workplace and community considerations
- Infection control
- Effective communication in an incident
- Risk assessment and evaluation of first aid performance
PREREQUISITES: NONE
COURSE DURATION: 1 Day
COST: $140.00 PER PERSON
Management of:
- Abdominal injuries
- Allergic and anaphylactic reactions
- Asthma
- Altered and loss of consciousness
- Asphyxia due to body position
- Basic wound care
- Severe Bleeding
- Burns
- Cardiac arrest using single rescuer procedure and seamless changeover between operators, infant, child and adult
- Use of Automated External Defibrillator including specific considerations for infant, child and adults
- Cardiac conditions
- Choking and airway obstruction
- Drowning
- Envenomation
- Environmental impacts
- Fractures, sprains and strains
- Eye and ear injuries
- Head, neck and spinal injuries
- Medical conditions including epilepsy, diabetes, stroke and seizures
- Poisoning and toxic substances
- Respiratory distress
- Shock
- Minor skin injuries
- Unconscious casualty
Evaluation Method
Continuous assessment
Participants are required to pass both practical and theory assessment
COURSE AWARD
Provide First Aid certificate (valid for 3 years from date of issue)
First Aid Services WA provide a range of nationally recognised first aid courses to businesses, students and government bodies through RTO Third Party arrangements*.
*Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Definition of a Third Party Arrangement:
Third party, agent or partner arrangements – means where a higher education provider has, or intends to have, any aspect of its higher education services in relation to its course(s) of study carried out on its behalf through a partner, agent or third party arrangement.
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