- Duration: 2 days
Course overview
This course was designed to help participants identify and eliminate potentially hazardous conditions in their environment, recognize emergencies, and make appropriate decisions for first aid care. It imparts skills that participants need to know in order to provide immediate care for a suddenly ill or injured person until more advanced medical care arrives to take over.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
• Understand the priorities in an emergency situation
• Undertake a primary assessment of an injured person
• Have a knowledge of and deal with respiratory conditions
• Have a knowledge of and deal with cardiac conditions
• Deliver the techniques of resuscitation
• Deal with bleeding and shock
• Have a knowledge of and deal with medical emergencies
• Manage musculoskeletal injuries
• Manage head, neck and spinal injuries
• Manage chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
• Deal with poisoning and envenomation situations
• Have a knowledge of and deal with environmental emergencies
• Document treatment given.
Course content
• Provide first aid
• Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Provide basic emergency life support
Target audience
The courses are geared toward first-aid providers who:
• Receive first-aid training suitable to the specific workplace
• Receive periodic refresher courses on first-aid skills and knowledge.
Training Methodology
State-of-the-art business facilitation methods are transferred by means of short, focused presentations which are followed by experiential learning workshop sessions. In these sessions, the knowledge gained is applied to real-world examples and case studies. Rapid learning of the methods and techniques is achieved by means of group work, individual work, participant discussion, facilitator interaction and constructive feedback.
WHY STUDY WITH US?
Diamond Training Institute give you the opportunity to further your education and acquire the knowledge and skills that are relevant in the workplace.
ON-TRACK FOR GROWTH
The individual leaves this course with a Personal Action Plan to encourage immediate transfer of training to the job.
EVALUATION TO ENSURE CONSISTENT QUALITY
All our courses are evaluated at Kirkpatrick’s Reaction and Learning levels as part of our quality control process.
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