Paediatric First Aid Online

£24.99

This online Paediatric First Aid course is essential for anyone who works or lives with children; parents, teachers, child-minders and carers, leisure centre staff. You never know when an emergency may happen and when you will need to use first aid skills to remedy a potentially life-threatening situation. It examines how you should adapt basic First Aid techniques for a child or baby and is intended to accompany our online First Aid training package. 

By the end of the course, you’ll know how to interact with a young casualty, how to keep them calm, and when to call for emergency support. You’ll learn how to manage potentially life-threatening conditions until professional help arrives.

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This online Paediatric First Aid course is essential for anyone who works or lives with children; parents, teachers, child-minders and carers, leisure centre staff. You never know when an emergency may happen and when you will need to use first aid skills to remedy a potentially life-threatening situation. It examines how you should adapt basic First Aid techniques for a child or baby and is intended to accompany our online First Aid training package. 

By the end of the course, you’ll know how to interact with a young casualty, how to keep them calm, and when to call for emergency support. You’ll learn how to manage potentially life-threatening conditions until professional help arrives. 

If you enjoy this online course, we strongly recommend you attend a hands-on first aid training session from a local training provider for practical first aid training with realistic scenarios and opportunities to practice the skills you learn here online.

Training includes all of the topics covered in the Emergency First Aid at Work course, and complies with the  current guidelines published by the Resuscitation Council (UK) and with the requirements of the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.

There are 3 modules in this course:

Module 1 – Essential Skills & Principles

  1. Roles & responsibilities of the First Aider
  2. Assessing an emergency situation

Module 2 – First Aid Skills

  1. The primary survey
  2. The recovery position
  3. Unresponsive child (Not breathing)
  4. Choking
  5. Using an AED
  6. Head injuries
  7. Nosebleeds

Module 3 – Common medical conditions

  1. Seizures
  2. Anaphylaxis
  3. Asthma
  4. Croup
  5. Meningitis

Time limits – You have 6 months to complete this course. 

Assessment – There is a short quiz at the end of Module 3

Certification – Once you have completed all of the modules and the end of module assessments you will be able to download your certificate of completion, which gives a brief outline of the content of the course.

CPD – this course carries 8 CPD points

Refresher courses – We recommend that you refresh your first aid training at least every 2 years.