Course Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to provide an advanced first aid response, including management of the incident and other first aiders, until the arrival of medical or other assistance.
The unit applies to workers who may be required to provide, coordinate and manage a first aid response across a range of complex situations, including community and workplace settings.
The art of providing first aid is to keep them breathing and stop them bleeding until emergency services arrive.
What will I received when I successfully complete the course?
You will receive a nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for:
Provide Advanced First Aid HLTAID014
Provide First Aid HLTAID011
Provide basic emergency life support HLTAID010
Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation HLTAID009
It is recommended that Provide Advanced First Aid HLTAID014 is renewed every 3 years and Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation HLTAID009 is renewed every 12 months in line with industry standards. The rationale for this is that most people forget the practical component and the more we learn about our body the more aware we are of doing things in a better way. Locate the most current training package at
training.gov.au
What are we obliged to tell you?
We are required to provide clear evidence to enable you to decide if this course is suitable for you. This course teaches the skills and knowledge required to provide first aid in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) Guidelines. This course is developed for existing workers in the industry who may require first aid training as recommended by the ARC and be located in remote situations where a longer management of the casualty may occur until medical assistance arrives.
There are also specific industries that require additional training such as childcare workers, school teachers and other industries.
First Aid in Cairns (RTO 45723) is responsible for the quality of the training and assessment and will be issuing the statement of attainment for this unit of competency. Training is provided by First Aid in Cairns.
Are there physical requirements for this course?
The HLTAID competency standards require a level of physical ability to provide resuscitation and respond to an emergency situation where there may be risk to life. These are important physical standards which relate to the level of performance required when undertaking accredited training.
One requirement of the training package is that you are to be assessed as physically capable of performing uninterrupted CPR for at least 2 minutes on an adult CPR manikin placed on the floor. There can be no exceptions to these Australian Government requirements that are clearly written into the Training Package.
Unfortunately, students who are unable to satisfy the physical requirements of the course cannot be deemed competent or issued with a statement of attainment, even if the qualification is a necessary part of their employment conditions.
Resources that will be available for this course:
- Adult resuscitation manikins
- Infant resuscitation manikins
- Face Shields
- Knee Pads
- Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) training device
- Workplace injury, trauma and/or illness Incident Report Form
- Asthma inhaler and spacer / placebo bronchodilator and spacer device (ventolin)
- Epi-pen (auto injector) / adrenaline auto-injector training device
- Bandages (roller and triangular)
- Dressings
- Tourniquets
- Splints
- Bag-valve-mask
- Thermometer
- Eye Patch
- Icepacks
- Thermo Blanket and other items to make a casualty comfortable
- First Aid Kit (from the workplace/travel kit)
Each course involves:
- Formative learning by listening to and participating in presentations
- Interacting with power-point presentations and watching videos
- Watching demonstrations and practicing practicals
- Asking questions and giving verbal answers
- Group and individual activities using contextualised scenarios, scenes and visual cue cards
- Completing of a multiple choice quiz, short answer quiz and an Incident Report Form/Workplace Incident Report Form
- Completing competency based demonstrations and practicals
Assessment Theory (Multi choice question paper including written answers)
You will be assessed on:
State/Territory regulations, first aid codes of practice and workplace procedures:
- ARC Guidelines relevant to the provision of CPR and first aid
- Guidelines of Australian national peak clinicial 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:
- Awareness of potential need for stress-management techniques and available support following an emergency situation
- Capabilities of emergency services
- Duty of care requirements and respectful behaviour towards a casualty
- Own skill, limitations, consent, privacy and confidentiality requirements
- Importance of debriefing and dealing mental health issues for yourself and bystanders
- Considerations when providing CPR (airway obstruction due to body position / appropriate duration and cessation of CPR / appropriate use of an AED including chain of survival)
- Following workplace procedures including action plans for asthma and anaphylaxis
- Standard precautions
Basic anatomy and physiology:
- Considerations in provision of first aid for specified conditions
- Head, chest, torso, arms, legs, fingers and toes
- Skelton, joints and muscles
- How to recognise a person is not breathing normally
- Response/consciousness
- Upper airway and effect of positional change
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
- Needle 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
Assessment Practical - Physical Demonstrations (skills)
The simulated or contextulised assessment environments will reflect the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed. Relevant equipment and resources of that working environment will be available for use.
Skills must be demonstrated by the participant working individually (and in a team) in an environment that provides realistic in-depth, industry-validated scenarios and simulations to assess students’ skills and knowledge. The assessable practical skills are listed below.
You will be assessed on responding to a first aid scenario and an emergency scenario and task demonstrations for:
- Adult CPR: Performing 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; including the demonstration of a rotation of operators with minimal interruptions to compressions
- 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: Listened and followed the prompts of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
Other scenarios contextualised to remote situations will include:
- Responding appropriately in the event of regurgitation or vomiting
- Demonstrating safe manual handling techniques
- Managing the unconscious breathing casualty, including placing them into the recovery position
- Communicating details of the incident and providing a verbal report of the incident to a Supervisor / Emergency Services
- Assessing and responding in an emergency situation
- Duty of care
- Assessing of the sick and injured including applying triage for a multiple casualty incident
- Applying identified first aid procedures
- Airway and breathing management
- Allergic reactions (anaphylaxis)
- Respiratory distress (asthma)
- Bleeding and shock
- Drowning
- Choking
- Venomous bites and stings
- Fractures
- Soft tissue injuries (sprains and strains)
- Head, neck and spinal injuries
- Assessment of vital signs
- Seizure
- Debriefing and evaluating own performance when responding to critical incidents
Pre-Course Study Videos
These videos are useful study resources to watch prior to your course. They are made by respected members in the industry and are not our videos.
Entry Requirements
There are no prerequisite, entry, work-placement, licensing or certification requirements for this course, however the following foundation skills are required:
Learning – to learn to provide first aid response in an emergency
Reading – to administer medication for anaphylaxis or asthma
Writing – to complete documentation such as reports/risk assessments
Oral communication – to call the ambulance and provide a handover
Numeracy – to count the number of compressions and breaths
By definition, foundation skills are the underpinning communication skills required for participation in the workplace, the community and in adult education and training.
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Additional Information
The Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 are to ensure nationally consistent, high-quality training and assessment across Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system. They are quite clear as to the information that must be disclosed to potential participants of courses, so that those participants can make fully informed decisions. The following information is provided for this purpose.
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Choosing a Training or Education Provider
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has developed a fact sheet to allow you to be fully informed about your decision to enroll in a course of study. We recommend reading this information at asqa.gov.au, prior to enrolling.
Determining the amount of Training - Target Student and Course Delivery Options
Student cohort (types of students)
First Aid in Cairns is required to determine the amount of training we provide to each student, with regard to the existing skills, knowledge and experience of the student.
This is achieved by identifying the cohort category or the student undertaking the proposed training and also the mode/s of delivery being provided.
Skill levels will vary in relation to the type of student or ‘cohort' and can be identified as two different types of cohorts, ie:
- Students new to the training
- Students with previous training and/or experience similar to this course
Initial training and modes of delivery (students new to the training)
Initial training is intended for students who have no prior training or experience. For example job seekers, school leavers, those wanting a change in career etc.
Where the student cohort consists of new entrants or inexperienced workers, we ensure that we give them the opportunity to fully absorb the required knowledge and to develop skills over time in the different contexts they would experience in the workplace. This may require a longer time-frame than for those students with significant training/industry experience.
Students are given the free opportunity to return to First Aid in Cairns within 6 months of the date of completion, free of charge, to revise any components or part of a course that they feel they need more support, revision or practice.
Refresher training and modes of delivery (Students with previous training and/or experience)
The shorter refresher course may be appropriate for workers or students experienced in the industry or with previous training. This might be those who have been in the industry for some time (e.g. well practiced skills), those who have previously completed this course or similar, and those returning for workplace or industry requirements and to refresh their skills etc. So the student cohort for a refresher course is comprised of students who have previously attained experience in the required skills/knowledge. It’s important to identify those students who are confident and are returning for recertification. It’s about recognising their pre-existing knowledge and skills. Therefore, upon enrolment, a refresher student can supply evidence of previous certification and therefore will be given the option of completing a shorter course with the face to face training session with a trainer and like minded students. Recertification/refresher training is a competency confirmation event that includes training, the purpose of which is to compensate for or prevent deterioration in a previously achieved standard of performance.
Course Times
For Students new to Training
14 hours
of face to face training and assessment and workplace practical tasks
Students with similar previous training and / or experience
13 hours
of face to face training and assessment and workplace practical tasks
Pre-course Student Workbook
1-2 hours
to complete prior to commencing the course
Exceptions for Duration of the Course
Course durations are reflective of group sizes of between 4 and 15 students. If there are less students in a group, you may find course duration reduced by a maximum of 10%.
If a class size exceeds 15 students, it may therefore also be necessary to increase course duration depending on the number of students.
Do note that First Aid in Cairns limits class sizes to a maximum of 10 students, unless a special request has been made for a group booking.
What is competency-based training?
A competency-based training environment is centered on demonstrated competence against industry-defined standards of performance. The skills are measureable and the collection of competencies jointly defines successful job performance.
Competency-based training is the concept that individuals learn at different rates as well as through different modes and different environments and that the skills and knowledge that a student has acquired previously are able to be formally recognised.
Amount of Training and the AQF Volume of Learning
The AQF Volume of Learning describes how long a student, who does not hold any competencies identified in the qualification, would normally take to develop all of the required skills and knowledge at that qualification level. The amount of training comprises the formal learning activities that are provided to a student to enable them to meet the requirements of each training product and gain the skills and knowledge specified in the relevant training product.
Recognition Prior Learning or previous courses
Upon enrolment, you are given the opportunity to provide a copy of your previous training and based on that evidence, the course can be modified based on your previous knowledge. There is a currency requirement to be able to demonstrate skills such as CPR.
Identifying Support you may require to complete this course
Upon enrolment, we will give you an opportunity to provide information on your language, literacy and numeracy skills to complete this course. There is also the opportunity to provide details and communicate any special needs or support requirements you may have. Assistance can be sought from our Director of Education by phoning 0412 046 588.
We provide equitable access to all required educational and support services, so that no student is disadvantaged to be able to enroll into this course regardless of their mode of study or location. Students can organise to meet with their trainer on a one-to-one basis for additional support, plus email and phone contact.
It’s important to note that there is a physical requirement to complete 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on a CPR manikin placed on the floor
Unique Student Identifier (USI)
Completing any vocational education course in Australia, it is a requirement for you to obtain and supply a USI. This is obtainable from usi.gov.au
If a USI is not supplied and verified with usi.gov.au a Statement of Attainment cannot be issued to you.
If you have forgotten your USI, please visit usi.gov.au to retrieve your USI.
If you are under 18 years of age
It is a requirement that parental/guardian consent is obtained for students under the age of 18 to be able to participate in a course. Contact our office administrator for a copy of the form.
Course Fees
Course fees will be communicated to you prior to enrolment and is payable to First Aid in Cairns (RTO 45723).
The course fee for Provide Advanced First Aid HLTAID014 is $300 GST exempt.
If you require a Statement of Attainment to be re-issued in the event of lost or damage, the cost is $25 GST exempt.
This course is usually arranged by the employer of a workgroup and the employer will be invoiced for the training.
If the employer does not arrange the training, or the employer does not agree to fund the training, training fees must be paid by the individual student direct, prior to the commencement of the course.
First Aid in Cairns is required to meet minimum resource and facility requirements and course fees are available at the time of enrolment.
Funding and Work Placement Arrangements
There are no funding or work placements associated with this course.
Reasonable Adjustment
Reasonable adjustment refers to flexibility in assessment approaches to account for individual learning needs, while still adhering to the assessment requirements of the relevant training package. Whilst reasonable adjustments can be made in terms of the way in which evidence of performance is gathered, the evidence criteria for making competent/not yet competent decisions should not be altered in any way.
If a student meets essential entry requirements, the RTO must endeavour to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ necessary for them to complete their course work or demonstrate competency.
This may include adjusting the physical environment, student learning materials or the manner that a theory test is completed. In most situations, a student with a disability will be able to tell us what he or she needs to be able to study. If necessary, we will also seek advice from disability areas within government departments or organisations that represent or provide services to people with a disability.
Adjustments may include:
- Modifying educational premises. For example, making ramps, modifying toilets and ensuring that classes are in rooms accessible to the person with a disability.
- Modifying or providing equipment. For example, enlarging computer screens, providing specific computer software or an audio loop system.
- Changing assessment procedures. For example, allowing for alternative examination methods such as oral exams, or allowing additional time for someone else to write an exam (as a scribe) for a person with a disability.
- Changing course delivery. For example, providing study notes or research materials in different formats or providing a sign language interpreter for a person who is hearing impaired.
Please note that in some Training Packages, first aid and CPR training for example, there are mandatory skills that cannot be modified as a reasonable adjustment. The student is required to complete 2 minutes of adult CPR on a manikin on the floor. There is no room for reasonable adjustment as it is stated as what is required in the Training Package.
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 Information Handbook on our website on the page "General Info".
Engaging with Industry Experts
As part of ongoing improvement activities and industry consultations, First Aid in Cairns consults with industry experts to ensure best practice occurs in resources and realistic assessment tools.
Training Considerations from the Trainer and Assessor
The 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.
First Aid in Cairns has the responsibility to:
- Have qualified trainers and assessors to deliver the training and assessment.
- Provide educational and support services to meet the needs of the student cohort/s undertaking the training and assessment.
- Provide learning resources to enable students to meet the requirements for each unit of competency.
- Provide 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 and employers. Feedback for this training program is collected through:
- Employer and client questionnaires managed by First Aid in Cairns head office.
- Student Surveys - every student is given the opportunity for post course survey and these survey results are available for both the trainer and First Aid in Cairns to view.
- Feedback is collected, analysed and actioned. Identified actions are documented.
ASQA Training Package*