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Comprehensive First Aid also provides training on managing more complex workplace injuries and illnesses, expanding your ability to respond to a broader range of emergencies. Through trauma and medical scenarios, you'll practice administering first aid to multiple people, ensuring you're prepared to handle a variety of emergency situations.

This course has no prerequisite requirements. To keep your first aid certificate valid, you must complete revalidation training with a certified provider every two years.

What this course covers

• Primary assessment.
• Recovery (stable side) position.
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) – adult, child and infant.
• Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
• Management of choking – adult, child and infant.
• Life-threatening bleeding and shock.
• Burns.
• Poisoning.
• Fractures, dislocations and soft tissue injuries.
• Medical emergencies.
• Scene management of emergency situations.
• Hypothermia, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.
• Head and spinal injuries.
• Complex medical and trauma injuries.

Booking options

There are different ways to complete this 12-hour first aid course. Either completely face-to-face or with a pre-learning component completed on your computer (preferred), phone or tablet:

1. Book a Comprehensive First Aid course to complete all training face-to-face over two days.
2. Comprehensive First Aid – Hybrid is the updated name for our Online Comprehensive First Aid course. This involves online pre-course learning (six hours) and face-to-face in the classroom (six hours).

This course meets the requirements of the New Zealand First Aid Certificate. 

This course has no prerequisite requirements. To keep your first aid certificate valid, you must complete revalidation training with a certified provider every two years.

What this course covers

• Primary assessment.
• Recovery (Stable side) position.
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) – adult, child and infant.
• Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
• Management of choking – adult, child and infant.
• Life-threatening bleeding and shock.
• Burns.
• Poisoning.
• Fractures, dislocations and soft tissue injuries.
• Medical emergencies.

Booking options

There are different ways to complete this eight-hour first aid course. Either completely face-to-face or with a pre-learning component completed on your phone, tablet or computer:

1. Book an Essential First Aid course to complete all training face-to-face.
2. Essential First Aid – Hybrid is the updated name for our Online Essential First Aid course. This involves online pre-course learning (four hours) and face-to-face in the classroom (four hours).

This course meets the requirements of the Foundation First Aid Certificate.

This First Aid Revalidation course provides hands-on practice and simulations, allowing you to refresh your skills and maintain the confidence to respond effectively in a range of emergency situations.

It is designed for those who need to renew their first aid certification and have previously completed our Comprehensive First Aid course (or equivalent), our Essential First Aid course (or equivalent), or maintained their certification through first aid revalidation training conducted by NZQA accredited providers. 

You must hold a current Comprehensive First Aid (6402, 6401, 6400), Essential First Aid Certificate (6402, 6401), First Aid Revalidation or an equivalent certificate from another provider to attend this course. You must bring proof of your existing first aid certificate upon attending a refresher course.

You can attend a revalidation course if your certificate is no older than two years.

What this course covers

• Primary assessment
• Recovery (stable side) position
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) – adult, child and infant
• Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
• Management of choking – adult, child and infant
• Life-threatening bleeding and shock
• Scene management of emergency situations
• A wide range of complex medical emergencies and trauma injuries – including Head and spinal injuries, hypothermia, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.  

Booking options

There are different ways to complete this six-hour first aid revalidation course. Either completely face-to-face or with a pre-learning component completed on your phone, tablet or computer:

1. Book a First Aid Revalidation course to complete all training face-to-face.
2. First Aid Revalidation – Hybrid is the updated name for our Online First Aid Revalidation course. This involves online pre-course learning (two hours) and face-to-face in the classroom (four hours).

Learn how to assist a collapsed person, manage someone who is unconscious, recognise when CPR is required, and perform CPR on adults, children, and infants.

You'll also discover how to use a defibrillator (AED), respond to choking emergencies, and manage life-threatening bleeding.

This course is an accessible option for anyone interested in building confidence to respond effectively to someone in need of help.

Please note, this course does not award any unit standards. If you need unit standard 6402, we recommend our Save a Life course.

For more in-depth first aid training, including a wider range of advanced topics, we recommend our Comprehensive First Aid or Essential First Aid courses.

There are no prerequisite requirements for this course. 

What this course covers

• Primary assessment.
• Recovery (stable side) position.
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) – adult, child and infant.
• Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
• Management of choking – adult, child and infant.
• Life-threatening bleeding and shock.

This course meets the requirements of the Provide Basic Life Support Certificate.

What this course covers

Participants will: 

• Understand what Psychological First Aid is and isn't.
• Become familiar with distress reactions.
• Provide PFA using ‘The Five Elements’ and the action principles:  
  • Look: Know some of the warning signs.
  • Listen: How to check in, listen and respond. 
  • Link: Connect the person and/or yourself to the right support.
• Practice providing Psychological First Aid.

Book a course

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Individual bookings

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Our four hour First Aid for Parents and Caregivers course provides clear, practical first aid skills tailored to infants and young children. You will learn how to recognise emergency situations and respond confidently to choking, asthma, injuries, allergic reactions, and other common childhood emergencies.

Please note, this course does not award unit standards. If you require unit standards for in-home childcare, we recommend our Essential First Aid course, which awards unit standards 6401 and 6402.This course covers key skills such as choking management and CPR for infants and children, along with first aid for bleeding, burns, fractures, poisoning, seizures, and severe allergic reactions. It is an ideal option for parents, whānau, caregivers, and anyone responsible for the care of young children and no previous first aid experience is required.

Delivered in a supportive learning environment, the course offers practical demonstrations, helpful guidance, and the opportunity to practise essential first aid actions. You will gain the knowledge and confidence to act quickly and safely during the most common emergencies affecting young children.

What this course covers

• Recognising emergencies

• How to get help

• Primary assessment for infants and young children

• Choking management for infants and young children

• CPR for infants and young children

• Asthma

• Life-threatening bleeding and shock

• Burns

• Poisoning

• Fractures

• Severe allergic reactions

• Seizures