Provide risk based primary emergency care/first aid Module 60

Provide risk-based primary emergency care/first aid in the workplace.

Purpose:

This Assessment requires learners to provide risk-based primary emergency care/first aid in the workplace.

• First aid is the immediate care given to a person who has been injured or suddenly taken ill.
• It includes self-help and home care if medical assistance is unavailable or is delayed.
• It also includes well-selected words of encouragement, evidence of willingness to help, and promotion of confidence by demonstration of competence.
• The person giving first aid, the first alder, deals with the whole situation, the injured person, and the injury or illness.
• You will know what not to do as well as what to do; avoid errors that are frequently made by untrained persons through well-meant but misguided efforts.
• Know that first aid knowledge and skill can mean the difference between life and death, between temporary and permanent disability, and between rapid recovery and long hospitalization.

The qualifying learner is capable of:

• Demonstrate the principles of primary emergency care.
• Assess and control a single injury emergency scene in the workplace.
• Demonstrate primary emergency life support for adults, children and infants.
• Explain and manage shock.
• Carry out a secondary assessment of the sick or injured person and provide appropriate primary emergency care at the scene.
• Keep records of the incident/accident.

Steps:

1. Complete the Formative Assessment
2. Watch the Video Part 1
3. Watch the Video Part 2
4. Watch the Video Part 3
5. Complete the Summative Assessment