First Aid for Parents (E-Learning)

Duration: Approximately 1-1.5 hours

Access: This online course can be completed on any PC or mobile device. You can study at your own pace and log in and out as often as you wish

Features:

1. Appeals to all learning styles with interactive quizzes, video and audio features
2. Allows learners to work at their own pace, testing their knowledge as they progress through the course
3. Provides a very thorough resource for those with English as a Second Language

Assessment: Self checks after each section of the course and an optional end of course multiple choice assessment*

Certification: On successful completion, learners can download a certificate as evidence that they have passed the course

Objectives:

• Be able to assess an emergency situation and prioritise what action to take
• Help a baby or child who is unresponsive and breathing normally
• Help a baby or child who is unresponsive and not breathing normally
• Help a baby or child who is having a seizure
• Help a baby or child who is choking
• Help a baby or child who is bleeding
• Help a baby or child who is suffering from shock caused by severe blood loss (hypovolemic     shock)
• Help a baby or child who is suffering from anaphylactic shock
• Help a baby or child who has burns or scalds
• Help a baby or child who has a suspected fracture
• Help a baby or child with a foreign body in eyes, ears or nose
• Help a baby or child with an eye injury
• Help a baby or child with a bite or sting
• Help a baby or child having: an asthma attack; an allergic

reaction; meningitis; and/or febrile convulsions

• appropriate contents of a first aid box