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First Aid for Young Children
Build your confidence and skills to attend to young children, when an accident or emergency occurs.

First Aid for Young Children
Recommended for
People who have responsibility for young children, including home-based education and care services. The course is also suitable for parents, grandparents and babysitters.
What this 4 hour course covers
First Aid for Young Children builds your confidence and skills to provide a safe first aid response for young children and infants. Being able to respond first could help save a child's life, and help in an emergency, until other assistance arrives.
You will learn:
- safe scene management
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- airway obstruction
- safe side positioning
- common first aid conditions and how to respond to them
- assessment of emergency situations
- child and infant resuscitation and choking (CPRL2)
- dealing with bleeding, fractures, burns, poisoning, seizures and anaphylaxis.