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Emergency First Aid for Carers
Overview
Certificated emergency first aid course designed to meet the requirements of the Health & Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 and the 'Skills for Care' inductions standards for carers and healthcare assistants.
Who is it for?
All care staff that have no current valid first aid certificate
Course Content
- Health & safety legislation and the implication of the Health & Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981
- Skills for Care Common Induction Standards
- First aid policies and procedures
- First aid risk assessments
- Service user care plans
- Falls risk assessment
- Emergency first aid theory & practical incorporating CPR
- Record keeping
Learning Outcomes
- Know what to do in response to an illness or accident
- Understand basic emergency first aid procedures
- Know what not to do at this stage of training
- Duties under current legislation
- Understand employers first aid policy
- Care plans and not for resuscitation
- Incident & casualty management
- Priorities of first aid
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- How to apply CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- How to deal with falls
- How to treat shock & external bleeding
- Dealing with emergency services
- How to report and record an incident
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