Session Plan
The qualification requires successful completion of one unit – Emergency First Aid in the Workplace.
Session plan timings are approximate. Trainer / assessors should be flexible and responsive considering the needs of the participants but must ensure that the minimum contact hours are met and used to cover the full syllabus.
EMERGENCY FIRST AID IN THE WORKPLACE - MINIMUM 6 GUIDED LEARNING HOURS
Module 1: Introduction
Session Content
- Trainer/assessor introduction
- Venue health and safety procedures, facilities, and any housekeeping rules
- Qualification information:
- Syllabus
- Validity, requalification, and refresher training
- Assessment process and any physical demands
- Reasonable adjustment and special consideration
- Administration:
- Explain Participant Declaration Form and any training materials
- Learner introductions
Session Duration
10 minutes
Module 2: What is first aid?
Session Content
- Definition of first aid
- The aims of first aid
Session Duration
10 minutes
Module 3: Legislation
Session Content
- Health and safety regulations
- First aid provision
- First aid kits and contents
- Accidents and incident reporting
- RIDDOR
Session Duration
30 minutes
Module 4: Responsibilities
Session Content
- Roles and responsibilities of the first aider
- Consent
- Priorities of first aid treatment
- Communication with casualties
- Contacting the emergency services
- Infection control and minimising risk to self and others
Session Duration
25 minutes
Module 5: Action in an emergency
Session Content
- Factors involved in an emergency
- Assessing the scene using SHAPE
Session Duration
10 minutes
Scenario 1 – Primary survey and recovery position
Module 6: Primary survey
Session Content
- DR ABC
- Assess the level of responsiveness
- Airway and breathing checks
- Using bystanders and calling for help
- Safe airway position – how and why
Assessment
Scenario 1 – Primary survey and recovery position
Session Duration
25 minutes
Module 7: Secondary survey
Session Content
- Casualty assessment top-to-toe
Assessment
Scenario 2 – Primary survey and recovery position
Session Duration
25 minutes
Module 8: The respiratory system
Session Content
- Understand importance of diaphragm
- How oxygen enters the body
- Composition of air we breathe in and out
- Understand why we can give rescue breaths
Session Duration
10 minutes
Module 9: Resuscitation and AED
Session Content
- Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Current resuscitation guidelines
- CPR on your own
- CPR with help available
- Ways to provide rescue breaths including use of face shields
- Safe use of an AED
- Chain of survival
- Problems encountered during resuscitation
Assessment
Scenario 3 – CPR and the safe use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
Session Duration
60 minutes
Module 10: Choking
Session Content
- Understand differences between a full and partial blockage
Assessment
Scenario 4 – Demonstrate back blows / abdominal thrusts on infant, child and adult using appropriate equipment
Session Duration
30 minutes
Module 11: Hypovolaemic shock and fainting
Session Content
- How circulatory system works
- The definition, causes, recognition and treatment of:
- Shock
- Fainting
Session Duration
20 minutes
Module 12: Wounds and bleeding
Session Content
- Composition of blood
- Types of wounds
- Types and severity of bleeding
- Preventing cross-infection
- General rules for bandaging
- Treatment of bleeding:
- Open wound
- Embedded object
- Bruising
- Minor cuts and grazes
- Nosebleeds
- Amputations
- Foreign objects (nose, ears, splinters)
Assessment
Scenario 5 – Major bleeding and hypovolaemic shock
Scenario 6 – Minor injuries
Session Duration
20 minutes
Module 13: Seizures
Session Content
- Recognition of a seizure
- Treatment for:
- Tonic-clonic seizure
- Complex-partial seizure
- When to contact emergency services
Assessment
Scenario 7 – Tonic-clonic seizure
Session Duration
20 minutes
Module 14: Minor burns and scalds
Session Content
- Causes of burns
- Classification of burns
- Treatment of burns:
- Chemical (absorption and swallowed)
- Non-Chemical
Session Duration
20 minutes
Module 15: Anaphylaxis
Session Content
- What is anaphylaxis?
- Recognising signs of anaphylaxis
- Treatment for anaphylaxis
Assessment
Scenario 8 – Safe use of an epipen
Session Duration
20 minutes
Module 16: Course closure
Session Content
- Play an approved game such as blockbusters / connect 4 and resus relay to embed learning
- Ask learners to:
- Complete online learner declaration form
- Download course manual
- Inform learners when they can expect to receive their certificate and method of delivery i.e. cert or hard copy.
Congratulate the learners on their achievement and thank them for their attendance and effort during the course.
Session Duration
25 minutes
Refer to the Marking Guide for all assessments.
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