First Aid Awareness

About this course

This awareness course covers Care Certificate outcome 13.4 (accidents and sudden illness) and gives awareness of Standard 12 (basic life support). It teaches you to recognise an emergency, stay safe, call 999 clearly, understand what is left to people with practical training, and report and recover afterwards. It does not teach or certify practical first aid or CPR skills, and it does not make you a qualified first aider. Five modules, eighteen lessons, around two hours, finishing with an assessment and a SupportiveBridge certificate.

What you'll learn

• By the end of this module, you will be able to explain what first aid awareness covers, why your employer has legal duties about first aid, and where the limits of your own role lie.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to list the accidents and sudden illnesses that can happen in your work and spot the signs that mean urgent help is needed.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to describe the steps to follow when an accident or sudden illness happens: make the scene safe, call for help and stay with the person.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to recognise cardiac arrest and other life-threatening emergencies, explain the part CPR and defibrillators play, and say which actions are left to people with practical training.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to explain what happens after an emergency: handing over, recording and reporting, looking after yourself and staying ready for the next one.

Curriculum

Assessment & certificate