HLT21020 Certificate II in Medical Service First Response
Course Outline
The HLT21020 Certificate II in Medical Service First Response is a nationally accredited qualification that is designed to provide students with the essential knowledge and skills to work in the roles of medical first response or volunteers who provide initial care to patients. They provide basic first aid and emergency responses in the pre-hospital/out of hospital environment.
Course Structure
This course is delivered through a combination of classroom learning, group discussion and practical activities in both a simulated and real-world environment.
Course Outcomes:
- Work respectfully with people from diverse social and cultural groups and situations, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
- Participating in safe work practices to ensure their own health and safety, and that of others in work environments that involve caring directly for clients.
- Recognising potentially hazardous manual tasks, and then prepare for and complete those tasks in a safe manner.
- Maintaining health and wellbeing by preventing and managing personal stress
- Apply basic infection prevention and control principles in work settings including implementing standard and transmission-based precautions and responding to risks.
- Providing an advanced first aid response to a casualty in line with first aid guidelines determined by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) and other Australian national peak clinical bodies
- Requirements to use specialised equipment in the provision of resuscitation and oxygen therapy in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines.
With the following units awarded on successful completion:
- CHCDIV001 Work with diverse people
- HLTWHS002 Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- HLTWHS005 Conduct manual tasks safely
- HLTWHS006 Manage personal stressors in the work environment
- HLTINF006 Apply basic principles and practices of infection prevention and control
- HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
- HLTAID014 Provide Advanced First Aid
- HLTAID015 Provide Advanced Resuscitation and oxygen therapy
- HLTAID013 Provide first aid in remote or isolated site
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