First Aid Course Melbourne

Knowledge requirements (assessed in class)

Guidelines and procedures, including:

• First aid provided per ARC Guidelines
• In accordance with Australian national peak clinical bodies, the First aid guidelines are followed.
• Possible happening menaces and risk depreciation procedures when implementing first aid
• The infection control procedures majorly involve the use of formal precautions and resuscitation barrier devices
• Prerequisites skill and knowledge of the currency 
• Practice the First aid principles and codes
• Suitable site processes appropriate to the requirement of first aid
• First aid kits contents are provided

The following considerations apply to workplaces, communities, and the law:

• Care needs task
• Concede regulations and skills
• Authorization of how it connects to the intended and out casualty
• confidentiality and privacy prerequisites
• Need to support rescuers in any possible condition for the stress management methods

Considerations when providing CPR, including:

• upper airway and the effect of positional change
• appropriate duration and cessation of CPR
• proper use of an AED
• safety and maintenance procedures for an AED
• chain of survival
• how to access emergency services

Adults, children, and infants can receive CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, using the following procedures:

• Identifying unconscious casualties and non-breathing casualties
• Compression and ventilation rates, ratios, and depths
• Compressions should be done with the right hands

In relation to CPR signs, symptoms and injuries in adults, children, and infants, here are some basic anatomy, physiology and differences:

• Allergic reaction
• Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Non-life-threatening and life-threatening bleeding
• Burns
• Cardiac conditions, including chest pain
• Choking
• Diabetes
• Drowning
• Envenomation – all current treatments
• Eye injuries
• Fractures, dislocations, strains and sprains
• Head, neck and spinal injuries
• Hypothermia
• Hyperthermia
• Minor wounds
• Nosebleed
• Poisoning
• Seizures
• Shock
• Sharps injuries
• Stroke

Practical skills (assessed in class)

Candidate must demonstrate compliance with state/territory regulations by completing the following tasks. 

With ARC guidelines, the unconscious, breathing casualty, including appropriate positioning to reduce the risk of airway compromise

 Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines, the unconscious, non-breathing adult, including:

1. Performing at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted single-rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR). It may have 5 cycles of administering chest compressions and ventilations to an adult resuscitation manikin positioned on the floor base.

2. Demonstrating a rotation of single-rescuer operators with minimal interruptions to compressions.

Statement of Attainment

Your statement of attainment will include the following accredited units of competency: 

HLTAID011 Provide First Aid 

HLTAID010 Provide essential emergency life support 

HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Based on guidelines from the Australian Resuscitation Council, HLTAID011 should be updated every three years and HLTAID009 every twelve months.

Assessment requirements:

The candidate must display completion of the following tasks by applicable state or territorial laws, first aid recommendations made by the Australian resuscitation council, and workplace or site procedures. You must be physically capable of giving continuous CPR on a manikin placed on the floor as part of the training for this course.

Resources:

All necessary reading items and course-related materials will be provided after enrollment.

Course Fees:

In Victoria-$85

For any fee refund query, students should contact Humber College and access it under our website policies.