Paediatric First Aid Online Training Our paediatric first aid online Training course equips students with the skills to react to an emergency involving children or infants. It covers how to deal with a number of illnesses and injuries.
This fully-online course is ideal for anyone working with children, including teachers, foster parents, camp counselors and coaches of youth sports organizations. However, it does not make you a qualified paediatric first aider.
Getting Started Whether you are looking to improve your existing first aid skills, or wish to obtain certification for work, paediatric first aid training is an essential course for anyone who cares for children. The course teaches you how to recognise and respond to common accidents that affect young people such as burns, sprains, fractures and febrile convulsions (seizures triggered by high fever).
It also equips you with the practical knowledge to deal with issues like choking, seizures and injuries related to drowning, head trauma, amputations and spinal cord injury. The online buccal training for epilepsy course at ProTrainings includes information on how to treat minor wounds such as cuts, grazes and eye infections, and gives you the confidence to respond quickly in emergency situations involving infants and young children.
You can study the course at your own pace and all learning is recorded on our learning portal so you can start, stop and re-start whenever you want. Once you have successfully completed the course, you will receive an instant PDF certificate of completion. Theoretical
Paediatric first aid is a specialized form of first aid tailored specifically for infants and children. It's often a requirement in child care facilities or nurseries, while it's also useful to parents or sports coaches working with young people.
Our course
care mandatory training theoretical portion is delivered using an excellent eLearning package that allows for flexible completion at your own pace and time, giving you ample time to cover theory before attending your face-to-face training day.
This wrap training course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to respond effectively in emergency situations involving children, from unresponsiveness through to managing anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions). This includes dealing with choking and foreign body airway obstruction; breathing difficulties; resuscitation as well as wounds, burns and scalds, shock, poisoning bites/stings fractures eye injuries/head trauma - this Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid qualification is nationally recognised and Ofqual regulated. Practical
As part of the practical portion of this course, you will learn how to respond to accidents and illnesses involving children. You will gain experience recognizing and treating febrile convulsions, fractured bones, sprains and strains, asthma attacks and other common childhood illnesses and injuries such as head injuries, burns, poisonings or choking incidents.
This section of the course is delivered online so that you can learn at your own pace without feeling pressured to complete everything all at once. It includes high quality eLearning tools, test yourself questions and interactive videos designed to support learning.
The eLearning component of the course prepares you for face to face classroom training day, building confidence before stepping foot inside a classroom setting. Experienced and qualified instructors will lead these training days and will teach essential first aid skills necessary for dealing with first aid emergencies involving children.
Assessment
Paediatric first aid is a specialised form of first aid that is designed to be used on infants and children. It’s important for anyone who works in a childcare setting, and all parents of young children, to be able to respond effectively to an emergency situation should one arise. The course will cover the key responsibilities of a first aider, how to assess an emergency situation, and what steps you should follow in order to deal with different conditions that could arise. It will also explore the importance of the '3 Ps'; preserve life, prevent further harm and promote recovery.
The practical portion of the training will look at how to carry out the primary survey on a casualty, and it will also cover how to put an unconscious child or infant into the recovery position. It will also explore what to include in a paediatric first aid kit, and the role of a defibrillator.
