Level 3 First Aid At Work Requalification (QCF)

Course content: First Aid at Work

• Record Keeping: Students will learn the legal requirements of record keeping and how to complete a accident form.
• Aims of First Aid: Provides students with an understanding of the goals of first aid.
• Priorities of First Aid: Students will understand the Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing, and Circulation approach. The Priorities of first aid to Preserve, Prevent, and promote patient recovery and how this can be achieved. This section will also detail who is in charge of a first aid incident.

• First Aid Theory: The student will understand appropriate legislative updates and the Law. The Student will also be updated on any changes in First Aid that have occurred or are foreseen in the future.
• Unconscious Adult: Students will understand the causes of unconsciousness, what has happened to an unconscious child/infant, and how to recognize the unconscious Adult. The Student will also learn the recovery position for Adults and the rationale of the recovery position.
• Resuscitation: Students will understand the rationale behind Cardio Polomanary resuscitation and common causes of cardiac arrest in Aduts. Students will learn Basic Life Support for adults resuscitation according to the UK Recucitation Council guidelines.
• Head Injuries: Students will learn definition of a head injury. The three different types of head injury. Concussion, compression, and base of skull fracture, Their associated signs and symptoms and management, treatment, and positioning of a child/infant with head injuries.
• Burns and Scalds: Students will learn difference between a Burn and a Scald. The three different categories of severity of burns/scalds. Immediate treatment options and how to deal with chemical burns and burns to different areas of the body.
• Epilepsy: Students will learn the definition of epilepsy and the causes and triggers of epileptic seizures. The three categories of seizure absent seizure, major seizure, and status epilepticus.
• Shock: Students will learn different types of shock, cardiogenic shock, Neurogenic shock, Anaphylactic. Recognition and positioning of different types of shock.
• Bleeding: Students will learn how to identify six different types of external wounds. High impact wound, Incised, laceration, contusion, abrasion, and puncture and how they may occur. Students will also learn different types of blood vessels in the body and how they bleed. Students will also understand blood loss and blood volumes.
• Choking: Students will learn common risky foodstuffs that may cause an adult to choke. location of high risk areas of choking. Recognition and treatment of a choking adult.
• Eye Injuries: Students will learn a range of different types of eye injuries recognition, management and treatment options.
• Poisons: Students will be able to define the term poisons. How poisons enter the body and management of suspected poisoning
• Diabetes: Students will be able to define diabetes, causes, different ways existing diabetes is managed. Students will also learn different types of diabetes recognition and treatment of an adult suffering from hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
• Convulsions: Student will be able to define convulsions, causes and treatment of a infant/ child suffering from convulsions.
• Asthma: Students will be able to identify causes of asthma, recognition of an asthma attack, triggers of an asthma attack positioning of a asthmatic and treatment options.
• Stroke: Students will be able to identify the cause of a stroke, recognition, and treatment options.
• Fainting: Students will be able to identify common causes of a faint. Physiologically the cause of a faint, positioning of a fainted adult and treatment options.
• Chest Injuries: Students will be able to identify three diffrent types of chest injury. Sucking chest injury, crush injury, and rib fracture. Positioning and treatment of a range of chest injuries.
• Effects of heat and cold: Students will learn differences between hyperthermia and hypothermia. Temperature ranges and risk factors and treatment options.
• Fractures: Students will be able to define a fracture. Three categories of fractures. Open, Closed and complicated fractures. Recognition and stabilization of fractures, dislocations, and suspected spinal injuries.