Understand the role and responsibilities of the Paediatric First Aider:
- Be able to assess an emergency situation safely and provide initial care
- Understand the purpose of records and (how to complete records relating to illnesses, injuries and emergencies
- Formative and Summative assessments will take place during the course in order to verify that the learning objectives have been achieved
Be able to provide first aid for an infant and a child:
- who is unresponsive and breathing normally, including child and infant resuscitation
- who is unresponsive and not breathing normally
- who has a foreign body airway obstruction
- with external bleeding
- with injuries to bones, joints and muscles
Understand how to recognise signs and symptoms, administer emergency first aid to an infant and a child with a chronic medical condition or sudden illness:
- Sickle cell crisis
- Diabetic emergencies
- Asthma attack
- Allergic reaction
- Meningitis
- Febrile convulsions
- Croup
Understand how to recognise signs and symptoms, administer emergency first aid to an infant and a child:
- who is experiencing the effects of extreme heat and cold
- who has sustained an electric shock
- with burns or scalds
- who has been poisoned
- who has been bitten or stung
- with minor injuries, including cuts, grazes, bumps and bruises, small splinters and nose bleeds
- with conditions affecting the eyes, ears and nose
- with head and spinal injuries
- with anaphylaxis
- who is suffering from shock
- who has been exposed to drowning
Course dates:
- Duration - 2 Days/minimum of 12 contact hours to be arranged
- Cost - £102 per person
Date | Course Location |
18 & 19 September 2018 |
Bron-y-Nant, Dinerth Road, Rhos-on-Sea, LL28 4YN |
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