Date: TBC for 2018
Duration: 3 days
Time: 9.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Venue: The Halewood Centre
You must first attend Emergency First Aid before accessing this course
- Relevant Legislation and Guidance
- Resuscitation Council (UK) (www.resus.org.uk)
- The Resuscitation Guidelines 2010 (www.resus.org.uk/pages/GL2010.pdf)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – Standards for clinical practice and training (www.resus.org.uk/pages/standard.pdf)
Target Audience
Basic Knowledge for All Staff.
Learning Outcomes 1
Emergency First Aid;
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a first aider.
- Be able to assess an incident.
- Be able to manage an unresponsive casualty who is breathing normally.
- Be able to manage an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing normally.
- Know how to recognise and assist a casualty who is choking.
- Be able to manage a casualty with external bleeding.
- Be able to manage a casualty who is in shock.
- Be able to manage a casualty with a minor injury.
Learning Outcomes 2
Recognition and Management of illness and injury;
- Undertake a second survey.
- Be able to administer first aid to a casualty with injuries to bones, muscles and joints.
- Administer first aid to a casualty with suspected head and spinal injuries.
- Administer first aid to a casualty with suspected chest injuries.
- Administer first aid to a casualty with an eye injury.
- Administer first aid to a casualty with sudden poisoning.
- Administer first aid to a casualty with anaphylaxis.
- Provide first aid to a casualty with suspected major illness.
First Aid Refresher Periods
Refresher periods for First Aid training should be a minimum of:
On induction and every 3 years