Emergency Paediatric First Aid (6 Hours)

Emergency Paediatric First Aid is taught over one classroom day (6 hours). This course is suitable for nannies, schools, babysitters, sports coaches and for anyone else who would like a basic understanding of paediatric first aid.

Childminders, nursery school workers and after school clubs should enrol on the longer 12 hour paediatric first aid qualification.

The Paediatric First Aid course covers the following subjects:

• Prioritising the scene
• Unconscious baby and child
• Baby and child CPR
• Wounds and bleeds
• Choking baby and child
• Shock
• First aid kits and hygiene techniques
• Burns and scalds
• Anaphylaxis
• Objects in eyes, ears and nose
• Recording and reporting accidents