COMPLIPLUS
Pediatric First Aid Training
The Pediatrics First Aid course focuses on emergency scenarios that are faced by professionals, including teachers, au pairs and playgroup leaders, looking after young children.
SAFETY TRAINING
The Paediatric First Aid course covers the following
- First aid kit
- First Aid – action planning
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- Resuscitation (child, infant and adult protocols)
- Choking (child, infant and adult protocols)
- Asthma and diabetic emergencies
- Paediatric First Aid
- Head injuries
- Seizures
- Bleeding
- Burns
- Sprains, strains and fractures
- Poisoning, bites and stings
- Foreign objects
- Childhood conditions (e.g. measles, meningitis and croup).
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Paediatric First Aid Training
On completion of this course learners will be able to;
- Explain the main components of relevant health and safety legislation
- Define the main components of the spinal column
- Explain the main risk factors for back injuries related to manual handling
- Describe the concepts of ergonomics
- Explain the manual handling risk assessment process
- To be able to carry out manual handling risk assessments
- Describe a range of controls to avoid and reduce the risk of injuries
- Apply the main principles of inanimate manual handling to a range of manual handling tasks
- Analyse the learner’s performance of manual handling techniques
- Develop inanimate manual handling training programmes
- Deliver effective manual handling training programmes
- Demonstrate understanding of adult learning principles
- Give effective instruction in practical manual handling techniques