Advanced First Aid

This nationally recognised advanced first aid training course covers a broad range of topics to enable participants to respond to advanced first aid situations and manage the incident and other first aiders until an ambulance or other medical support arrives. Upon enrolment into this course you are required to complete the mandatory theory learning and assessment. This is done online in your own time prior to your face-to-face training days.

Description

Course Outline

The key areas covered by this course include:

  • Recognising and responding to an emergency situation
  • Identifying, assessing and minimising immediate hazards
  • Assessing a casualty and the situation
  • Coordinating first aid activities until the arrival of medical assistance
  • Deploying resources as per workplace procedures
  • Visual and verbal secondary assessment of casualty
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), including Bag-Valve-Mask
  • Basic triage for multiple casualty incidents
  • Communicating incident details to emergency services and reporting incident as per workplace procedures
  • Post incident debrief and evaluation
  • Providing first aid in accordance with established first aid principles for injuries such as severe bleeding; burns; fractures, sprains and strains; head, neck and spinal injuries; shock; cardiac arrest and envenomation

 

Course Inclusions

  • Access to a leading online learning program built ground-up by industry experts
  • Face to face training conducted by an experienced Emergency Services instructor with strong knowledge of relevant legislation, Australian Resuscitation Council Guidelines, and first aid techniques
  • Plenty of practical hands-on training
  • Recommendations and advice for specialised first aid equipment for a particular workplace.

 

Each Trainee Must Provide

Participants must

  • Have completed the Provide First Aid pre-course e-Learning and exam prior to attending the scheduled face-to-face training day
  • Prerequisite for attending day two only: You must have attained HLTAID011 - Provide First Aid certificate within the last three months with Pinnacle Safety and Training
  • Be at least 15 years of age
  • Have at least a Year 10 level of numeracy, literacy and communication skills
  • Have the ability to read and write English
  • Arrive in suitable attire, including long pants and closed-in shoes.

For the online training component, participants must:

  • Use a device that meets the minimum System Requirements of Pinnacle’s e-Learning system (we officially support and recommend modern desktop or laptop computers running Google Chrome web browser). Other personal devices (e.g. phones and tablets) may be compatible, but due to the variety available, we do not officially support these devices.
  • Have a stable internet connection.
  • Use a device that can play sound.

National units of competency

  • HLTAID009 - Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • HLTAID010 - Provide Basic Emergency Life Support
  • HLTAID011 - Provide First Aid
  • HLTAID014 - Provide Advanced First Aid

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