First aid for Health and Social Care – first aid teaching resources

This course includes all of the modules which are required in the health and social care curriculum.

This course can be delivered by teachers, higher-level teaching assistants and school nurses who have a current first aid qualification. The qualification must cover all of the topics included in this course.

First aid for Health and Social care - modules

• • Asthma
• • Bites and stings
• • Minor bleeding
• • Bleeding and shock
• • Bone, muscle and joint injuries
• • Burns and scalds
• • Choking (adults)
• • Choking (child and infant)
• • Communication and casualty care
• • Coping in an emergency
• • First aid kit
• • Foreign objects
• • Head injuries
• • Low blood sugar
• • Meningitis
• • Poisons
• • Primary survey
• • Recovery position
• • Resuscitation (adult)
• • Resuscitation (child and infant)
• • Seizures
• • Severe allergic reaction

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