HLTAIDO14 – Provide advanced First Aid (cert 4 core)

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to provide an advanced first aid response to a casualty in line with first aid guidelines determined by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) and other Australian national peak clinical bodies.

 

Course Content

The course covers the following;

 

  • Learning objectives
  • Legal, workplace and community considerations
  • Considerations when providing first aid
  • Recognise an emergency situation
  • First aid
  • Common emergencies
  • First aid
  • Providing first aid safely
  • Establish procedures
  • Confidentiality
  • Patient confidentiality
  • Talking to a casualty
  • What is first aid?
  • What is the ARC
  • Codes of practice
  • Emergency action plan
  • DRSABCD
  • Hazard and risk assessment
  • Triage
  • Casualty assessment
  • History of incident
  • Infection control 
  • Protective devices
  • Skill and knowledge
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • All bodies are different
  • The respiratory system
  • Basic wound care
  • Internal bleeding
  • External bleeding
  • Needle stick injuries
  • Spinal injuries
  • Head injuries
  • Drugs and medication
  • Symptons and signs of an overdose
  • Assess the patient
  • Child birth
  • Symptons and signs of going into labour
  • Assisting the mother into a suitable position
  • The delivery procedures
  • Care for a woman during delivery
  • Delivery aftercare
  • Depression
  • Recognising depression
  • Symptoms of depression
  • Physical and behavioural indicators of child abuse and neglect
  • Elder abuse
  • National council on waging (NCOA)
  • Advanced resuscitation techniques
  • Bag-valve-mask-ventilation
  • When to use a BVM?
  • Impaled objects – fish hook
  • Methods of removal
  • Amputations
  • Severe bleeding
  • Tourniquet
  • Gunshot wounds
  • Automated external defibrillator
  • A guide to AEDs
  • Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)

 

Duration

7 Hours