HLTAID006
Provide Advanced First Aid
Award issued
HLTAID006 Provide Advanced first aid
HLTAID003 Provide first aid
HLTAID002 Provide basic emergency life support
HLTAID001 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
It is recommended this unit be renewed every 36 months in line with industry standards. Locate the most current training package at www.training.gov.au.
Training is delivered in partnership with Allens Training Pty Ltd RTO 90909
Allens Training student Terms & Conditions
Pre-course study
ASSESSMENT – THEORY – Multi choice question paper
You will be assessed on:
State/Territory regulations, first aid codes of practice and workplace procedures:
- ARC Guidelines relevant to provision of CPR and first aid
- Guidelines of Australian national peak clinical bodies
- Safe work practices to deal with risks and potential hazards including manual handling, hazardous substances, dangerous goods and chemicals
- 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
- Capabilities of emergency management services
- Consent
- Duty of care requirements
- Importance of debriefing
- Own skills and limitations
- Legal requirements of administration of medication and the rights of responsibilities of the first aider in the workplace regarding medication
- Privacy and confidentiality requirements
- Respectful behaviour towards a casualty
Considerations when providing first aid including:
- Airway obstruction due to body position
- Appropriate duration and cessation of CPR
- Appropriate use of an AED
- Assessment and interpretation of vital signs, including respirations, temperature and pulse
- Chain of survival
- How to conduct a visual and verbal secondary survey assessment of the casualty
- Priorities of management in first aid when dealing with life-threatening conditions
- Procedures for dealing with casualties who are aged or infirmed
- Procedures for dealing with major or minor accidents in the workplace
- Procedures when providing first aid to children
- Standard precautions
Principles and procedures for first aid management of the following scenarios, including complications:
- Abdominal injuries
- Allergic reaction
- Anaphylaxis
- Basic care of a wound
- Bleeding control
- Burns, including thermal, chemical, friction and electrical
- Cardiac conditions, including chest pain
- Choking and airway obstruction
- Crush injuries
- Diabetes
- Drowning
- Emergency childbirth
- Envenomation
- Environmental impact including hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration and heat stroke
- Eye and ear injuries
- Febrile convulsions
- Head, neck and spinal injuries
- Levels of consciousness
- Needles stick injuries
- Poisoning and toxic substances
- Respiratory distress, including asthma
- Seizures, including epilepsy
- Shock
- Skin injuries
- Soft tissue musculoskeletal, including injuries sprains, strains, dislocations and fractures
- Stroke
- Substance misuse, including common drugs and alcohol, including illicit drugs
Basic anatomy and physiology relating to:
- How to recognise a person is not breathing normally
- Chest, skeleton, joints and muscles
- Response/level of consciousness
- Upper airway and effect of positional change
- Considerations in provision of first aid for specified conditions
ASSESSMENT – PRACTICAL
Practical demonstrations
Simulated assessment environments must reflect the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment. Skills must be demonstrated working individually in an environment that provides realistic in-depth, industry-validated scenarios and simulations to assess students’ skills and knowledge.
It’s important that students have knowledge of the content of this course. The assessable practical tasks are listed below, showing what skills will be assessed.
You will be assessed on your demonstrations of:
Adult CPR: Responded to a first aid scenario and performed at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted single rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (5 cycles of both compressions and ventilations) on an adult resuscitation manikin placed on the floor;
Infant CPR: Responded to a first aid scenario and performed at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted single rescuer CPR (5 cycles both compressions and ventilations) on an infant resuscitation manikin placed on a firm surface;
Defibrillation: Followed the prompts of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
Other:
- Manage Infection control requirements
- Followed the prompts of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
- Demonstrated safe manual handling techniques and
- Provide a verbal report of the incident
Applied first aid procedures:
- Allergic reaction
- Anaphylaxis
- Bleeding control
- Choking and airway obstruction
- Conducted a basic triage for multiple casualty incident
- Envenomation (using pressure immobilisation)
- Fractures, sprains and strains (using arm slings, roller bandages or other appropriate immobilisation principles)
- Head, neck and spinal injuries (using immobilisation principles)
- Respiratory distress – including asthma
- Seizure
- Located and interpreted workplace policies and procedures
Student written agreement
If you are completing this course, please download the student agreement to ensure that you are aware of your rights and obligations. You can access the student written agreement by clicking here.
Course requirements
There are no prerequisite, entry, work-placement, licensing or certification requirements for this course.
We engage with industry experts
As part of ongoing improvement activities and industry consultations, Allens Training Pty Ltd consult with industry experts to ensure best practice occurs in resources and realistic assessment tools.
Training considerations from the trainer and assessor
The RTO’s training and assessment strategies and practices, including the amount of training they provide, are consistent with the requirements of training packages courses and enable each student to meet the requirements for each unit of competency or module in which they are enrolled.
RTO responsibilities
The RTO is required to:
- Have qualified trainers and assessors to deliver the training and assessment.
- Educational and support services to meet the needs of the student cohort/s undertaking the training and assessment.
- Learning resources to enable students to meet the requirements for each unit of competency.
- Facilities, whether physical or virtual, and equipment to accommodate and support the number of students undertaking the training and assessment.
Monitoring and improvement
Continuous improvement will occur through ongoing industry consultation, feedback from students, and feedback from clients. Feedback for this training program is collected through:
Employer questionnaire managed by the Allens Training Pty Ltd head office.
Every student is given the opportunity for post course survey and these survey results are available for both the trainer and RTO to view.
Feedback is collected, analysed and actioned. Identified actions are documented.
Responsible parties and contact details
Compliance manager – Tracy Fry – tracy@allenstraining.com.au