This accredited course is perfect for educators and support staff who need to handle first aid emergencies in education and care settings, particularly those involving asthma and anaphylaxis. The training follows the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines.

After completing the course, you will receive these certifications:

• 22556VIC - Course in Asthma Risk and Emergency Management in the Workplace
• 22578VIC - Course in First Aid Management of Anaphylaxis

This course empowers you with the knowledge and confidence to effectively handle emergencies involving asthma and anaphylaxis.

Anaphylaxis

• Management Plans & Policies
• Risks & Strategies
• ASCIA Action Plans
• Autoinjector - Instructions
• Autoinjector Care & Expiry
• Anaphylaxis First Aid
• Guidelines and Requirements
• Required Skills - Read and Interpret

Activity

• Communication Plan *
• Individual Anaphylaxis Management Plan *

Asthma

• Risk Minimisation
• Emergency Management Plans
• Asthma First Aid
• Defusing
• Handover
• Asthma document - Interpretation
• Incident report - child scenario
• State & Territory Regulations

Practical Assessment

• Workplace contextualised anaphylaxis scenarios
• Workplace contextualised asthma scenarios
• Defusing (hot debrief)

• Placebo asthma reliever medication inhaler device
• Single-use spacer
• Sample documentation, including incident reporting documents, Personal Asthma Action Plans, Workplace Asthma Emergency Management Plans
• A person in the role of a simulated casualty for practical demonstration of skills
• Asthma First Aid protocol developed by National Asthma Council Australia
• Current Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) guidelines and resources for emergency/first aid treatment of anaphylaxis
• Current ASCIA Action Plan for Anaphylaxis, ASCIA Action Plan for Allergic Reactions, and ASCIA First Aid Plan for Anaphylaxis
• Adrenaline injector trainer device/s
• Communication equipment
• Workplace incident/injury reporting documentation
• Relevant organisational policies and procedures
• Relevant legislative documents

Our comprehensive online assessment is designed to evaluate your knowledge and skills through a variety of question formats. Expect a combination of multiple-choice, true/false, short answer, and video response questions. This diverse approach ensures a thorough understanding of the material, allowing you to demonstrate your competency effectively and conveniently from any location.

During the practical assessment, you will need to demonstrate your ability to safely and effectively deal with a simulated emergency scenario. This will involve:

• An anaphylaxis scenario: assessing the risks and hazards, recognising the signs of an allergic reaction, following an emergency action plan, monitoring the condition, administering the auto-injector, monitoring the response to the adrenaline, notifying the emergency contacts, knowing if/when to administer a second auto-injector, positioning in the recovery position and doing a handover to paramedics
• An asthma scenario: assessing the risks and hazards, recognising the signs of a severe asthma emergency, determining the appropriate approach, perform secondary survey, follow emergecny management plan, monitoring the casualty and doing a handover to paramedics
• Doing a post-incident scenario for each