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Who Should Attend a Paediatric First Aid Course?
This course is suitable for those who work in a childcare setting or school as it has been specifically designed to meet the paediatric first aid requirements in the statutory framework for the early year’s foundation stage.
Learning Outcomes
Those completing this course will develop knowledge and skills in a wide range of paediatric first aid scenarios and should confidently be able to administer first aid to a child once they have successfully passed. Successful candidates will be awarded the Paediatric First Aid certificate, which is valid for 3 years, ensuring compliance with all EYFS / Ofsted, CSSIW and Scottish Early Years requirements.
Learning and Assessment
After the course you will be able to:
- Assess an emergency situation and prioritise what action to take
- Help a baby or child who is unresponsive and breathing normally
- Help a baby or child who is unresponsive and not breathing normally
- Help a baby or child who is having a seizure
- Help a baby or child who is choking
- Help a baby or child who is bleeding
- Help a baby or child who is suffering from shock caused by severe blood loss (hypovolemic shock)
- Help a baby or child who is suffering from anaphylactic shock
- Help a baby or child who has had an electric shock
- Help a baby or child who has burns or scalds
- Help a baby or child who has a suspected fracture
- Help a baby or child with head, neck or back injuries
- Help a baby or child who is suspected of being poisoned
- Help a baby or child with a foreign body in eyes, ears or nose
- Help a baby or child with an eye injury
- Help a baby or child with a bite or sting
- Help a baby or child who is suffering from the effects of extreme heat or cold
- Help a baby or child having a diabetic emergency, an asthma attack, an allergic reaction, meningitis and / or febrile convulsions
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the Paediatric First Aider (including appropriate contents of a first aid box and the need for recording accidents and incidents).
Assessment Method
Learners will be assessed through activities, multiple-choice tests and practical assessments.
