Course content provides learners with the knowledge to:
- Be able to assess an emergency situation and prioritise what action to take
- Help someone who is unresponsive and breathing normally
- Help someone who is unresponsive and not breathing normally
- Help someone who is having a seizure
- Help someone who is choking
- Help someone who is bleeding
- Help someone who is suffering from shock caused by severe blood loss (hypovolemic shock)
- Help someone who is suffering from anaphylactic shock
- Help someone who has had an electric shock
- Help someone who has burns or scalds
- Help someone who has a suspected fracture
- Help someone with head, neck, or back injuries
- Help someone who is suspected of being poisoned
- Help someone with a foreign body in eyes, ears or nose
- Help someone with an eye injury
- Help someone with a bite or sting
- Help someone who is suffering from the effects of extreme heat or cold
- Help someone having: a diabetic emergency; an asthma attack; an allergic
reaction; meningitis; and/or febrile convulsions - Understand the role and responsibilities of afirst aider (including
appropriate contents of a first aid box and the need for recording accidents and
incidents)






