What is blended first aid training?

There’s a new trend in First Aid & CPR Training that is getting more and more popular.

It’s called “blended” training. The reason it’s called that is because it “blends” the best of online training, with the best of face to face training.

With blended training you do all the “theory” of your course online and then you attend in person for 1-2 hours to get assessed on whether you can practically apply what you have learnt. Can you, for example, actually do the compressions required for CPR for the necessary period of time? Can you competently place someone in the “recovery position”? Can you actually dress a wound to stop the bleeding? etc, etc

Blended First Aid & CPR Training is ideal for people who are time poor, or who can’t take a full day off work to do their training or who need more flexibility in their busy schedules.

The great benefit of blending training is that you can do the online component of the training in your own time, to suit your schedule. You don’t have to do it all at one sitting and you can do it when it suits you, not your training provider. This is particularly true of people who can only train on weekends or who do shift work and have unusual schedules.

With blended training if you need to do your online training at 3am in the morning because that’s what suits you, then you can do that, because no first aid training company is going to be open at the time of day!

First Aid training and CPR training are vital to so many people, because being trained helps to save lives. But there are certain aspects of first aid training that mean it’s not easy to transfer all of the training online and that’s why there needs to be a face-to-face component with a qualified instructor who needs to check you out on essential skills.

Blended First Aid & CPR Training still give you the skills you need to know in an emergency to save someone’s life. And with blended training, you still get a nationally recognised certificate that is valid for the same length of time as if you had done the whole training session in person.

With blended training there is no time scheduled for how long you spend doing the online component of the training. It’s not limited by time. You can take as long as you need to do it and can do it over several time periods if that works best for you.

Once you have completed your online training component you will then get a link to book in the face-to-face session which you can do at one of our regularly scheduled training sessions.

If you work for a company and are in charge of booking or scheduling the first aid training, you might find that blended training works better for your team, allowing you greater flexibility in scheduling.

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Q. What is the difference between blended and in-person training?

A. Blended training is where part of the course is done via e-learning online and the rest is done in person. For a CPR course for example, you would do all the theory component online where you learn all about what CPR is, why you do it, when you do it, how you do it, etc.

Then you would attend an in-person training session for an hour or two, where you would demonstrate to one of our trainers that you can practically APPLY all the skills you learnt in your theory training. For example, with CPR training, can you actually perform the required action on a mannikin for the required period of time?

In-person training is where ALL the training takes place in person with a trainer present, usually on-site at our training facility or off-site at a workplace or other location. All theory and practical exercises are conducted in the same session with no online learning involved.

Q. What are the benefits of blended training?

A. More and more individuals and organisations are finding that blended training can bring many benefits.

For individuals doing a blended course means they can complete the first section of the course online in their own time, and often at home if they prefer. Then they only have to visit our training centre for a much shorter period of time to complete the practical aspect of their training.

For companies and organisations, blended training brings a number of benefits. Instead of having to schedule a large group of people to all train at the same time, with all the rostering challenges this brings, employees can complete the online component of their training individually. This means the organisation does not have to have a large number of people unavailable to work for a number of hours as they are “off training”. Blended training also allows for two different ways to complete the in-person component of their training. Staff can attend our training centre in Truganina or we can come to the organisation’s premises to conduct the practical training (minimum of 12 people in a group). Either way, the in-person training component is several hours shorter than if all the training was done face to face. Again this means staff will not have to be rostered off for such long periods of time.

Simply the fact that the online component of the training can be done by the employees at work or after work, without having to leave their premises helps with rostering and scheduling staff.

It also means that if you have a large number of staff who need to complete training, they don’t all have to go off-site to a training facility for hours at the same time, leaving the organisation short-staffed for that period of time. Instead a group of people can all complete their online component of the blended training in their own time and when all have completed, they only have to go off-site for the practical exercises of the training, sometimes for as little as 1 hour. So blended training is very flexible and helps enormously with putting large groups of people through their first aid and CPR training.