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