Family First Aid

This is a practical course for families to enjoy learning first aid together. It provides your family with the skills to help each other in an emergency or when general accidents happen around the house.

Who should attend?

This course is for families to learn First Aid together and so it is ideal that children attending should be at least 6  in order to fully participate and get the most from the course.

What you will learn?

The course covers how to deal with a casualty of any age and with any potential risk situation.

Course content –

(for guidance only can be adapted according to individual needs)

• Action at an emergency – priorities of treatment
• Care of the adult, baby or child who is unconscious but breathing – Recovery position
• Care of the adult who is unconscious and not breathing – CPR (differences between adult, baby & child CPR)
• Importance of a defibrillator
• Heart Attack
• Treatment of a choking adult, baby and child
• Treatment of bleeding, grazes, embedded objects, teeth knocked out, nose bleeds, amputated parts, eye injuries…
• Burns
• Treatment of bites and stings
• Treatment of fainting, head injuries, chest pains and stroke
• Recognition and treatment of shock including allergic reaction
• Poisoning
• Asthma, diabetes, meningitis, epilepsy and other seizures
• Bone, muscle and joint injuries – breaks, sprains, strains and dislocations

Course duration

Approx. 3 hours

Assessment and certification

Continuous assessment by trainer. Attendance Certificates