The course will enable learners to provide primary emergency care (first aid) in response to an occupational risk induced or any health emergency in their specific workplaces
Formative assessment
- Various activities will be completed during class as well as for homework.
Summative assessment
- Written assessment and practical exercise to be completed at the end of the course
- Learners need to achieve a minimum of 60%.
Course outline
The course equips learners with the basic principles of assessing an emergency situation, contacting the emergency services as quickly as possible and while awaiting their arrival, candidates will be able to perform basic skills required to sustain life. Learners will be able to:
- First Aid And The Law
- First Aid And Safety
- Infectious Diseases
- Primary Assessment
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Secondary Assessment
- Anatomy And Physiology
- Medical Emergencies
- Medical Conditions
- Injury Emergencies
- Poisoning
- Transportation of a Casualty
- Environmental Emergencies
- Advanced First Aid Theory