Pre-requisite:Be a minimum of 15 years of age on the date of examination.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify basic patient management techniques
- Perform checks to identify potential danger to self, patient and bystanders, specifically; preventative actions for communicable diseases
- Recognise and manage external bleeding injuries
- Recognise and manage patient shock
- Recognise and manage patients suffering minor burns, specifically; sunburn
- Recognise and manage patients suffering soft tissue injuries, specifically; rest, ice, compression, elevation
- Perform an airway management assessment, specifically; danger response, airway, breathing, circulation
- Perform basic patient management techniques
- Recognise and sort patients into management categories
- Recognise and manage patients with hypothermia/hyperthermia
- Recognise and manage marine envenomation injuries
- Recognise and manage patient with chest pains
- Recognise and manage patients with fractures
- Recognise and manage patients with spinal injuries
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic anatomy and physiology
- Maintain effective documentation
- Demonstrate an ability to identify and manage patient's condition
- Prioritises patient treatment and emergency management
- Recognise and manage patients with complicated and closed fractures
- Recognise and manage patients with internal bleeding
- Recognise and manage patient with head injuries
- Recognise and manage patients with asthma
- Manage patients with bleeding from the ear
- Identify parts of the eye and removal of foreign material
- Recognise and manage patients with burns
- Recognise and manage patients with seizures
- Recognise and manage patients with diabetes
- Maintain adequate first aid equipment and facility
- Maintains first aid room and equipment according to SLSA standards
- Manage first aid stock levels to SLSA standards
- Sterilise equipment in accordance with medial protocol
- Perform basic resuscitation techniques
- Perform a priority injury management assessment of a patient
- Place a patient in recovery position
- Perform a patient roll over
- Open airway by attaining a backward head tilt
- Perform 5 full breaths in 10 seconds
- Detail breathing rate differences for adult, child, infant
- Perform mouth to mouth/nose/mask expired air resuscitation technique/s
- Perform resuscitation (CPR) techniques
- Detail the systems of the body, specifically; muscular-skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, nervous
- Demonstrate a knowledge of when to commence CPR, and flow chart procedures for CPR
- Detail CPR rate differences for adult, child, infant
- Perform 1 and 2 person CPR techniques
- Perform oxygen aided resuscitation technique
- Demonstrate and describe patient management procedures after CPR
Assessment
Satisfy the majority of the Examiners in respect to their competence in all learning outcomes by:
- Written/oral examination
- Basic Skill Performance
- Rescue Scenario simulation
For this award to remain current candidates are required to perform an annual proficiency test in resuscitation. This award is valid for three (3) years.
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