What skills will I learn in a first aid course?

Have you just found out you need to do a first aid course?

You might have started a new job and been told you need to do a First Aid or possibly a CPR course as a condition of keeping your job.

Or you might be applying for a new job and someone has told you, you’ll need to be “first aid qualified” in order to considered for the role.

Whichever situation you are in, the first thing to know is which first aid course you need to do.

Understanding the different First Aid & CPR Courses.

Generally the most basic first aid course required for a job is called “Provide CPR” which has a course code of HLTAID009.

This course teaches you how to perform CPR or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. This is an emergency procedure to help save someone’s life if they stop breathing or have a heart attack.

When your heart stops, vital organs like your brain and lungs aren't receiving any blood which contains the life-giving oxygen they need.. When you stop breathing as well, no new life-giving oxygen is entering your body, which means you slowly start dying.

CPR teaches you how to pump the person’s heart for them with your hands and also provide oxygen into their lungs through “rescue breathes”. This is one of the most vital first aid skills you can learn.

Provide First Aid - HLTAID003

The next level up of first aid training is called “Provide First Aid” which has a course code of HLTAID003.

This course teaches you all of the CPR training you do in the first course, as well as teaching you a whole range of additional skills.

You’ll learn how to examine someone who has suffered an incident to discover what is essentially wrong with them and work out what first aid to apply. You’ll discover how to safely assess the overall scene of the incident to ensure you and others are safe. You learn how to use a Defibrillator which is an additional skill to providing CPR. You’ll learn how to deal with bleeding and other trauma.

It is a very comprehensive course. It is the most common first aid course people do, and are asked to do, when they are told they must do first aid training for their job.

Provide First Aid in Education & Child Care - HLTAID012

There is a third common first aid course specifically designed for teachers and childcare workers.

It is called, not surprisingly, “Provide First Aid in Education & Child Care”. This course has a course code of HLTAID012.

This course is very similar to the Provide First Aid Course but all of the training is specifically tailored to those who will be working with children or even toddlers in schools or childcare centres. Kids need specific first aid treatment that recognises they have smaller, younger bodies. You can understand why you wouldn’t use adult first aid techniques on a child.

Whichever first aid course you need to do, if you have any questions about the course for you, please feel free to call us at Results First Aid on 1300 661 065 or visit www.resultsfirstaid.com