HLTAID004 Child Care First Aid Course in Mount Gambier
Now HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
Childcare First Aid is a one day course that includes these units:
HLTAID004 Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting (Now: HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting)
HLTAID003 Provide First Aid (Now:HLTAID011 Provide First Aid)
HLTAID002 Provide basic emergency life support (Now: HLTAID010 Provide basic emergency life support)
HLTAID001 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (Now: HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) endorses this course.
ACECQA has validated this course as sufficient training for providing first aid to people suffering from an asthma attack and anaphylaxis. ACECQA approved first aid qualifications.
Who is the Childcare First Aid Course for?
This course is for educators, childcare support staff, outside of school hours care (OSHC) workers and teachers. But anyone who works with children at sporting clubs and community organisations would also benefit. Because childhood allergies are becoming more common, there is a focus on asthmatic and anaphylactic emergencies. That means practical training in the use of EpiPens and inhalers.
Childcare First Aid Course Content
This Childcare First Aid course will teach you how to respond to an emergency. That means performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on adult, child and baby manikins. As well as this, you will learn how to deal with a wide range of eventualities such as choking, snakebite, asthma and the severe allergic reaction anaphylaxis.
The course content is both theory and practical training. For instance, you will learn bandaging techniques and how to use an AED defibrillator. In addition, there is training with bronchodilators (asthma puffers) and adrenaline auto-injectors (EpiPens).
Childcare First Aid Course Delivery
Our Childcare First Aid course is classroom-based, but we also email participants a Learner Guide and quiz to study and complete before the session. You need to allow around 5 hours for the reading and the quiz. We will assess you on your completion of several practical tasks along with a written incident report. You will also have to answer several multiple-choice questions based on your learning during the day.
- Duty of care
- Privacy considerations
- Cultural awareness
- Importance of debriefing and incident reports
- Understand DRSABCD
- Perform CPR uninterrupted on an infant, a child and an adult for 4 minutes
- Procedures for dealing with major and minor injury and illness
- Priorities of management in first aid when dealing with life threatening conditions
- First aid requirements for services under the Education and Care Services National Law
- Basic occupational health and safety requirements in the provision of first aid
- Infection control principles and procedures
- Chain of survival
- Understanding of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and use on adult, child and infant
- Basic anatomy and physiology relating to CPR and differences between infants, children and adults
- Symptoms and triggers of Anaphylaxis & Asthma
- Interpreting workplace policies and procedures
- DRSABCD
- Demonstrate safe manual handling techniques
- Assess airway, breathing and responsiveness of casualty
- Check for response and normal breathing
- Act in the event of regurgitation or vomiting
- Following single rescuer procedure and rotation of operators
- Followed prompts of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- Conducted a verbal secondary survey
- Anaphylaxis
- Asthma
- Severe bleeding
- Burns
- Cardiac arrest
- Choking and airway obstruction
- Convulsions, including febrile convulsions
- Envenomation (using pressure immobilisation)
- Epilepsy and seizures
- Fractures, sprains and strains
- Head injuries
- Poisoning
- Shock
- Followed workplace procedures for reporting details of the incident
- Respond to at least three simulated first aid scenarios.
What do you need to do Childcare First Aid?
There are no formal academic requirements needed to do Childcare First Aid. The minimum age for first aid courses is 14, but if you are under 18 years old, you need signed consent from your parent or guardian.
You must have the language and literacy skills to:
- Write an incident report
- Communicate assertively and effectively
- Understand the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines
When do your get your nationally accredited certificate?
* You receive your Nationally Accredited Certificate on the same day you complete your course with FirstAidPro Mount Gambier.
After successfully completing HLTAID004 Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting (now HLTAID012) we will email you your certificate. If you require a hard copy of your certificate, this is available for purchase. The cost is $12, including postage.
Physical Requirements
Because you will need to perform CPR on an adult manikin on the ground, you must have the physical capacity to kneel and vigorously compress the manikin to simulate CPR.
