HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
Accredited First Aid Course
Certification in HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting is relevant to educators and support staff working within an education and care setting.
You will learn the knowledge and skills required to respond to First Aid emergencies, including asthmatic and anaphylactic emergencies.
The course is trained in accordance with Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines and may contribute towards approved First Aid, asthma and anaphylaxis training requirements defined by Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA).
| Course Code: | HLTAID012 |
| Course Title: | Provide First Aid in an education and care setting |
| Mode of Delivery: | e-Learning plus face-to-face classroom training and assessment |
| Duration: | This is a blended course with self-paced online learning (e-Learning) and face-to-face training. Before attending the face-to-face training, students need to complete their e-Learning, which can be done in one sitting or over several sessions. Depending on the student's learning ability, they should allow up to 6 hours for reading and e-Learning. Face-to-face training and assessment takes 5 hours in a classroom environment. |
| Assessment: | Written, practical and scenario-based assessment |
| Age Requirement: | Minimum age is 14 Years |
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Course Content
HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
The Child Care First Aid course presents the following key skills and knowledge:
- Recognise and assess an emergency situation
- Ensure safety for self, bystanders and casualty
- Assess the casualty and recognise the need for First Aid response
- Seek assistance from emergency services
- Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in accordance with the guidelines established by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC)
- Provide First Aid in accordance with established First Aid principles
- Ensure casualty feels safe, secure and supported
- Obtain consent from casualty where possible
- Use available resources and equipment to make the casualty as comfortable as possible
- Operate First Aid equipment according to manufacturers’ instructions
- Monitor the condition of the casualty and respond in accordance with First Aid principles
- Accurately convey incident details to emergency services
- Report details of incident in line with appropriate workplace or site procedures
- Complete applicable workplace or site documentation, including incident report form
- Report details of incidents involving infants and children to parents or caregivers
- Follow appropriate workplace or site procedures to report serious incidents to the regulatory authority
- Maintain privacy and confidentiality of records and information in line with statutory or organisational policies
- Recognise the possible psychological impacts on self and other rescuers and seek help when required
- Contribute to a review of the First Aid response as required
First Aid Certificate Issued
You will receive a PDF Statement of Attainment in HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting emailed to you the same day you successfully complete your training and assessment.
Current industry standards recommend renewing this certification every 3 years, with the CPR component being updated every 12 months. This is simply a matter of doing a refresher course with a Registered Training Organisation.
Australia Wide First Aid is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO No. 31961).
Who Can Attend?
This course is for students with existing first aid experience or for those who are new to first aid and comfortable learning in a blended delivery setting.
Factors to Consider
The course assessment requires students to demonstrate their ability to correctly perform at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on an adult manikin placed on the floor.
If you have a limitation that would affect your ability to complete the course, please call us to discuss prior to booking.
Our First Aid courses are endorsed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), under its QI & CPD programs. Along with official recognition for our quality training, this presents General Practitioners with an ideal option for their ongoing professional development.
Group Bookings
Australia Wide First Aid can come to you to deliver the First Aid course of your choice, training your people onsite at your workplace, business, or school.
We have streamlined our course delivery so that it's relaxed and educational while ensuring minimum downtime for you and your group.
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People also ask
ACECQA (Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority) has developed the National Quality Framework (NQF).
This framework defines national regulations for first aid qualifications, anaphylaxis management training, and emergency asthma management training.
For centres where children are being educated and cared for, qualified people must always be in attendance in case of emergency.
At least one staff member or one nominated supervisor of the service needs to:
hold current approved first aid qualification
have undertaken current approved anaphylaxis management training
have undertaken current approved emergency asthma management training.
For School-based services, qualified personnel must be in attendance and immediately available at the site in case of emergency.
At least one staff member or one nominated supervisor of the service must:
hold current approved first aid qualification
have undertaken current approved anaphylaxis management training
have undertaken current approved emergency asthma management training.
For Family day care services, the approved provider of the service needs to ensure that its educators and educator assistants:
hold current approved first aid qualification
have undertaken current approved anaphylaxis management training
have undertaken current approved emergency asthma management training.
Each family day care educator and educator assistant must hold all 3 qualifications.
At least one staff member or one nominated supervisor of the service must:
hold current approved first aid qualification
have undertaken current approved anaphylaxis management training
have undertaken current approved emergency asthma management training.
To become a first aid trainer in Australia you would need to have an entry-level teaching qualification.
The delivery of nationally accredited training and assessment in Australia is defined within the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015.
The qualification you need to deliver and assess vocational qualifications is TAE40116 Certificate 4 in Training and Assessment, or TAE40110 Certificate 4 in Training and Assessment, with the following 2 units: TAELLN411 (or TAELLN401A) and TAEASS502 (or TAEASS502A / TAEASS502B).
Having established your competence as a trainer, you'd also need your qualification to be paired with related experience.
Level 4 First Aid comes under the training code, HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an Education and Care Setting.
This certification includes units of competency for childcare workers, educators, and support staff who work within educational and care settings.
The aim of Level 4 First Aid is to enable qualified staff to respond to a first aid emergency, including asthmatic and anaphylaxis treatment for emergencies in infants, children and adults.
Before administering first aid care, you need to determine if the scene is safe to enter. You would also try to assess what has happened and how many people were involved.
After your initial impression of the person’s illness or injury, the immediate follow up is the question of whether they have a life-threatening condition, such as severe bleeding?
It’s also good to find out if anyone else is available to help.
Ask a bystander to try to locate an AED and first aid kit.
If the person is conscious and responsive and no life-threatening condition is evident, you would then obtain consent to provide care consistent with knowledge and training according to the conditions you find.
Asking permission involves letting the person know your name, your training, what you think is wrong, and what you plan to do.
It would then be appropriate to gather more information by asking questions about signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, relevant medical history, most recent food or drink, and events leading up to the incident.
Use appropriate PPE, if available, e.g. gloves. Check head-to-toe for signs of injury — head, neck, shoulders, chest, abdomen, hips, legs and feet, arms and hands.
If the person is unresponsive, try to get their attention by speaking loudly to them, using their name if it is known. If no response, tap the person’s shoulder (for an adult or child) or the bottom of their foot (for an infant) and call out loudly to them again, while checking for normal breathing.
Check for responsiveness and breathing for no more than 5-10 seconds.
If the person is breathing, ask someone to call Emergency and obtain an AED and first aid kit.
Roll the person onto their side to recovery position if there are no obvious signs of injury.
Gather relevant, critical information from bystanders and conduct a head-to-toe check.
If the person is NOT breathing, commence CPR, have someone call Emergency Services and obtain an AED and first aid kit.
Make sure the person is positioned face-up, flat on firm ground, and begin CPR (30 compressions followed by 2 rescue breaths, then repeat) if you are trained in giving CPR and using an AED.
Continue providing CPR until the person shows signs of life, or an AED is available and ready to analyse, or when EMS or trained medical responders arrive. Discontinue CPR if the scene becomes unsafe or you cannot continue because of exhaustion.
Basic First Aid emergency protocol, as per the Australian Resuscitation Council, is summarised in the DRSABCD Action Plan:
Danger – check! Be sure that you, bystanders, and the patient, are not at risk of further danger. Do not put yourself in danger when going to assist another person.
Response – check that the person responds when you talk to them, touch their hands, or squeeze their shoulder.
Send for help – call Emergency. Answer the operator’s questions.
Airway – check the person’s airway is clear and if they are breathing. If the person responds and is conscious with a clear airway, determine how you can help them with any injury. If they are not responding and unconscious, check their airway by opening their mouth and having a look inside. If their mouth is clear, tilt the person’s head back (by gently lifting their chin) to check for breathing. If the person’s mouth is not clear, place them on their side, open their mouth and clear the contents. Then tilt the head back and check for breathing.
Breathing – check for breathing by looking for chest movements. Place your ear near their mouth and nose to listen for breathing. Place your hand on the lower part of their chest to feel for breathing. If the person is unconscious but breathing, roll them onto their side, ensuring you keep their head, neck and spine in alignment. Monitor their breathing until you hand over to paramedics.
CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) – if an adult is unconscious and not breathing, make sure they are flat on their back, then tilt their head back gently by lifting their chin. Place the heel of your hand on the centre of their chest, your other hand on top. Press down firmly, to one third of their chest depth. The pace of these compressions is 2 per second (100-120 compressions a minute). Continue with CPR until paramedics take over, or until the patient responds. The method for providing CPR to infants and babies is not too different. You learn these skills in a CPR course.
Defibrillator – for an unconscious adult who is not breathing, apply an AED (automated external defibrillator) if available. This machine delivers an electric shock to try to get the heart beating normally again. Follow the instructions that come with the AED as well as the voice prompts. Assuming the person responds to defibrillation, roll them onto their side and tilt their head to maintain their airway. Some AEDs may be unsuitable for use with children.
If you’re reading this because of an emergency, stop and call triple zero (000). Pay attention to the operator.
First Aid is medical care provided to a person in immediate response to them suffering an illness or injury. The aim is to provide prompt first responder care to help someone feel better, recover more quickly, and even save their life.
First Aid might be simply placing a person in the correct position to breathe freely. If they have stopped breathing, it might involve cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
If you complete a First Aid course, you will become familiar with the DRSABCD action plan (think: “Doctor’s ABCD”). Each letter is a prompt for each sequential action.
DRSABCD unpacked:
Danger Make sure everyone in the area is safe, including yourself. Don’t put yourself or others at risk. Remove the danger, or the patient.
Response
Check for a response from the patient — loudly ask their name, squeeze their shoulder.
Send for help
If there is no response, call Emergency or ask a bystander person to call. Do not leave the patient.
Airway
Check their mouth and throat is clear. If not, roll the person onto their side and clear the foreign matter from the airway. If the airway is clear, leave the person in the position you find them and gently lift their chin to tilt their head back and keep the the airway clear.
Breathing
Check whether the person is breathing abnormally or not breathing at all after 10 seconds. If breathing normally, place them in the recovery position and stay with them. If they are not breathing normally, call an ambulance and commence CPR.
CPR
Start CPR: chest compressions with hand-over hand on the centre of their chest. Compress to 1/3 the depth of the chest and continue until the patient starts breathing or until help arrives.
Defibrillation
Do not leave the patient alone — have someone else fetch an AED (Automated External Defibrillator). Attach the defibrillator to the patient as soon as possible. Follow the voice prompts.
Emergency First Response training can build your confidence and increase your willingness to respond when faced with a medical emergency.
First responders have specialised training and are able to provide assistance at the scene of a medical emergency that is within their scope of training.
A First Aider or certified First Responder is trained to recognise, respond, and manage a medical emergency until professional help arrives.
These emergency first response efforts aim to provide the patient with the best chance of survival after severe injury or life-threatening medical conditions, such as anaphylaxis.
First responders provide assistance and monitor the patient until help arrives. The care provided varies with each medical emergency but may include bandaging injuries, providing assurance to patient, or performing CPR.
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