Provide First Aid HLTAID011 course provides you with skills in the area of initial first aid response to a casualty. This course will help you manage and control many of the common first aid problems you will encounter with a casualty.

The items outlined below will give you a greater understanding of how these areas of treatment will make a huge difference in the casualties outcome priorate emergency services arriving.

 

Course Details

• First Aid Principles

• Basic Life Support

• Infection Control & Hygiene

• Legal Aspects of First Aid

• Incident approach and management

• Patient assessment

• Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

• Automated External Defibrillation (AED)

• Choking and airway obstruction

• Bleeding Control

• Shock

• Crush Injuries

• Needle Stick Injuries

• Ear & Eye injuries

• Abdominal Injuries

• Burns and Scalds

• Head, Neck & Spinal injuries

• Fractures, Dislocations & Soft Tissue Injuries

• Medical conditions – asthma, diabetes, epilepsy & seizures

• Allergic reactions & Anaphylaxis

• Heat and cold emergencies

• Drowning

• Cardiac Conditions

• Stroke

• Poisoning & Envenomation

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Required assessment

This course includes both a theoretical and practical assessment component. Theory assessment includes the completion of a multiple choice quiz. Topics are discussed and displayed in a scenario base setting giving students a real understanding of how these skills could be applied in real life.

A practical assessment includes a formal assessment of practical skills, including resuscitation skills.

Please note: All participants must be able to perform at least two minutes of uninterrupted CPR, on both an infant resuscitation mannequin and an adult resuscitation mannequin placed on the floor with correct technique, to be marked as competent.

 

On completion

On successful completion of this course, participants will be awarded the nationally accredited statement of attainment – HLTAID011 including HLTAID009 Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Emergency Life Support HLTAID010.

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In order to perform this course you will need to have a Unique Student Identifier (USI).

It is a requirement from the Australian Government Department of Industry that all students must have a USI before completing this course.

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To obtain a USI please go to www.usi.gov.au ​

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First Aid attainments in partnership with Healthguard RTO 21156, all training & assessment material under the guidance and scope of Healthguard First Aid.

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