
First aid for childcare involves learning how to handle common injuries and illnesses for infants and children in educational or care settings. This course includes flexible, self-paced online learning and a face-to-face assessment to improve your skills. Book your course online today!
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This course provides practical training for workers within an education and care setting to respond to first aid emergencies in line with legal and workplace requirements, Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines and other Australian national peak clinical bodies.
It teaches how to identify illness or injury, access emergency services, safely provide first aid treatment using action plans, equipment and resources, for CPR, defibrillation, administering an autoinjector for anaphylaxis, administering asthma medication, immobilisation for envenomation, fractures, dislocations, sprains and strains, for bleeding and shock and other conditions.
You will learn basic anatomy, physiology and the differences between adults, children and infants relating to CPR, managing an infant or child with an acute illness, or who requires an immediate ambulance response and conveying incident details to parents, caregivers and emergency services.
The course covers completing incident documentation and debriefing for improvement of response, recognising psychological impacts, talking with children about their emotions and seeking help as required.
The delivery mode for this course is a combination of online learning, followed by face to face assessment. The online component takes approximately 4 hours and the face to face assessment 2.5 hours. Please note that all of the online learning must be completed prior to the face to face practical assessment.
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Training and assessment delivered on behalf of Allens Training Pty Ltd RTO 90909.
Course Delivery Mode:
Online learning followed by face to face assessment.
Online Component:
This self-paced online component takes around 4 hours to complete, depending on your level of experience. It covers the theory components of the course through a series of video and online theory questions. You may choose to complete this during one or a number of sessions. You can also review the online theory after the course if you wish. We recommend that this component be completed using Google Chrome.
Please be aware that the online component must be completed prior to attending the face to assessment.
Face to Face Assessment:
This part of the course will take around 2 hours to complete. During this time you will cover the following assessment areas.
Performance tasks and Practical scenarios:
Participants must have the physical capacity to perform the practical demonstrations, such as 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on the floor.
Pre-course study: Students may be required to undertake online pre-course work prior to attending the face to face session depending on the course delivery mode.
Online study: Students must have access to a computer, smartphone, tablet or other electronic devices with access to the internet to complete the online/ pre-course studies.
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From 1st January 2015, it is a government requirement to have a Unique Student Identifier Number (USI) for all nationally recognised courses that you attend.
It is free and easy for you to create your own USI online.
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Students who successfully complete this nationally recognised training will be awarded the statement of attainment:
It is recommended that the First Aid Component be renewed every 3 years, in line with industry standards.
It is recommended that the CPR Component be renewed every 12 months, inline with Australian Resuscitation guidelines.
This Certificate is issued by our Training Partner, Allens Training RTO #90909
To ensure you can successfully complete your practical training we ask the following:
If the student does not meet the above requirements, they will be unable to attend there practical training.
We understand there are times when you may need to make a change to your booking! For all requested booking changes, more than 48hrs (2 business days) prior to a course, no rebooking fee will apply. If the request is less than 48hrs (2 days) prior to a course no changes can be made. If you need to make changes to your booking:
If you need to cancel, we’ll issue you a voucher for the full amount paid, valid for 3 years, so you can book another course when it suits you.
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304/396 Scarborough Beach Rd,
Osborne Park, WA 6017
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Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed