Provide Basic Emergency Life Support

HLTAID010 - Provide Basic Emergency Life Support
Having the skills, knowledge, and confidence to recognise and respond to life-threatening emergencies can save a person’s life!

In this first aid course, you will learn these first aid skills in line with legal, workplace and community considerations, Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines and other Australian national peak clinical bodies.

The course covers assessing the casualty, providing safety, accessing emergency services, and using resources to provide first aid, such as providing CPR and using a defibrillator, administering an autoinjector for anaphylaxis, administering asthma medication, assisting someone choking, managing casualties with non-life-threatening bleeding and shock.

You will learn basic anatomy, physiology and the differences between adults, children and infants relating to CPR, and the importance of the chain of survival. Also, conveying accurate details when handing the casualty over to emergency services, reviewing an incident to improve own skills and response times, recognise psychological impacts from the incident, and seeking help as required.

Entry Requirements

Participants must have the physical capacity to perform the practical demonstrations, such as 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on the floor.

Pre-course study: Students may be required to undertake online pre-course work prior to attending the face to face session depending on the course delivery mode.

Online study: Students must have access to a computer, smartphone, tablet or other electronic devices with access to the internet to complete the online/ pre-course studies.

Course Delivery

This course can be delivered/assessed in the workplace or at facility organised by the training provider.

Course Duration

Online Training with Face to Face – 35 minutes

Face to Face – 240 minutes

Units Being Delivered

The following units will be included in your certificate:

  • HLTAID010 – Provide basic emergency life support
  • HLTAID009 – Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Assessment Activities

Performance tasks and practical scenarios:

  • Perform CPR on an adult (incl. the use of an AED and placing a casualty into the recovery position)
  • Perform CPR on an infant
  • Manage a casualty with anaphylaxis
  • Manage a casualty with asthma
  • Manage a choking casualty
  • Manage a casualty with non-life-threatening bleeding and shock

Theory assessment: A written assessment consisting of multiple-choice questions.

Certificate Renewal Requirements

Certificates will require renewal after 36 months

Provider of Training and Assessment

This course is delivered and assessed on behalf of Allens Training Pty Ltd RTO 90909 by Alert First Aid

Provider of training

Learning Rights, Responsibilities and Support, including Complaints

Please note that enrolment to this course is made with Allens Training Pty Ltd RTO 90909. Please refer to the student handbook located on the RTO website allenstraining.com.au (https://allenstraining.com.au/students/student-handbook) for all details relating to rights and responsibilities including complaints and appeals.

Course Fees

Online Cost: $95

Face to Face Cost: $105

Which course type is best for me?

 

ONLINE COURSES

This is the most popular option. You do the theory part of the course online in your own time then we arrange for you to do a practical assessment face to face with us.  Works really well for those of us with busy lives.

FACE TO FACE COURSES

These courses are great if you’d prefer to do your course theory and assessment with a group of others. Just book onto a course through the booking calendar.

Book on this Course (face to face)

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)

 

If you have had a fever or history of fever and acute respiratory infection with at least one of the following symptoms (shortness of breath, cough or sore throat) not to attend class until you are well.

If you have returned from overseas in the last 14 days prior to your course date, you must not attend class.

If you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, you should stay at home and self-isolate and not attend class for at least 14 days after last contact with the infected individual/s.

If you have been tested for COVID-19 or have been in contact with a case of the virus within 14 days after attending your course with National First Aid, please notify us immediately on