The unit applies to all workers who may be required to provide a first aid response in a range of situations, including community and workplace settings.
State/Territory regulations, first aid codes of practice and workplace procedures including:
- ARC Guidelines relevant to provision of CPR and first aid
- safe work practices to minimise risks and potential hazards
- infection control principles and procedures, including use of standard precautions
- requirements for currency of skill and knowledge.
Legal, workplace and community considerations including:
- awareness of potential need for stress-management techniques and available support following an emergency situation
- duty of care requirements
- respectful behaviour towards a casualty
- own skills and limitations
- consent
- privacy and confidentiality requirements
- importance of debriefing.
Considerations when providing first aid including:
- airway obstruction due to body position
- appropriate duration and cessation of CPR
- appropriate use of an AED
- chain of survival
- standard precautions
- how to conduct a visual and verbal assessment of the casualty.
Principles and procedures for first aid management of the following scenarios:
- abdominal injuries
- allergic reaction
- anaphylaxis
- basic care of a wound
- bleeding control
- burns
- cardiac conditions, including chest pain
- choking and airway obstruction
- crush injuries
- diabetes
- dislocations
- drowning
- envenomation
- environmental impact, including hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration and heat stroke
- eye and ear injuries
- fractures
- febrile convulsions
- head, neck and spinal injuries
- minor skin injuries
- needle stick injuries
- poisoning and toxic substances
- respiratory distress, including asthma
- seizures, including epilepsy
- shock
- soft tissue injuries, including strains and, sprains
- stroke
- unconsciousness.
Basic anatomy and physiology relating to:
- how to recognise a person is not breathing normally
- chest
- response/consciousness
- upper airway and effect of positional change
- considerations in provision of first aid for specified conditions