First Aid for Pediatric Emergencies (Free Online Course With Certificate)
Online
DURATION
1 up to 3 Hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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STUDY FORMAT
Distance learning
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Introduction
This course on critical pediatric emergencies is specially designed for children's parents, teachers, and guardians. Its primary aim is to equip you with the necessary knowledge of pediatric emergencies so that they deescalate a hazardous incident. In addition, this course contains the methods of responding to choking, asthma, food poisoning, animal bites and fall injuries and discusses some basic aspects of pediatric medicine.
This Free Online Course Includes:
- 1.5-3 Hours of Learning
- CPD Accreditation
- Final Assessment
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Curriculum
When expecting a child, a parent's primary preoccupation is ensuring that their baby will be born healthy and without complications. While this is true for most children born today, pediatric accidents in the home can occur, which can cause fatal consequences if you do not take appropriate steps to combat these mishaps. Therefore as a parent, teacher or guardian, you must be fully aware of common pediatric emergencies and how to handle them efficiently. Consequently, we have designed this comprehensive course to help adults manage some of the most prevalent hazards in the home and school settings.
The first two topics in this course stress the importance of pediatric medicine and explain the seven classifications of this age group, along with the significant differences between adult medicine and pediatric medicine. The four critical milestones in a child's health are also included for parents to understand what a paediatrician will look for while examining their child. The course also contains two essential video tutorials that will teach you to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on an infant and help protect a choking child.
We then illustrate the most commonly occurring pediatric emergencies. These include falls, injuries, cut and puncture wounds, animal bites, insect stings and electrocution, emphasising three common childhood hazards: asthma, choking and food poisoning. We will equip parents or guardians to provide medical care for their children by exploring these emergencies. While all advice in this course comes from authentic sources, you should not consider it an alternative to expert medical advice. Instead, this course will guide you through these potential emergencies to be best prepared to look after the children in your care.
Module 1
Critical Pediatric Emergencies
In this module, you will learn to classify pediatric age groups, how to perform CPR on children, and how you can rescue a choking child. Similarly, this module discusses hazards for fall injuries and the need to seek help when animal bites are. Lastly, you will study how to respond to an asthma emergency and electrical injuries.
Module 2
Course assessment
Program Outcome
What You Will Learn In This Free Course
- Classify various pediatric age groups.
- Compare adult medicine with pediatric medicine.
- Recognise the method of performing CPR on children.
- Outline the three important causes of pediatric emergencies.
- Explain the hazards of fall injuries.
- Indicate the need for trauma care for cut and puncture wounds.
- Evaluate the need of seeking help in case of animal bites.
- Discuss the causes of choking in children.
- Analyse the method of rescuing a choking child.
- Paraphrase the method of responding to an asthma emergency.
- Identify the common and dangerous symptoms of food poisoning.
- Recall the method of responding to electric injuries in children.
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Career Opportunities
CPR And First Aid Instructor
Every time a layperson can save a person experiencing a respiratory or cardiac emergency, due credit goes first and foremost to the CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and First Aid Instructor who trains and makes sure their clients can perform emergency aid when the situation calls for it.
Pediatric Nurse
They are there when their patients are scared; they know when their patients need a snack, a drink or a comforting hug; they wipe their patients’ tears and make them laugh; they offer their patients’ families a strong and sympathetic shoulder to lean on. They are Pediatric Nurses - real-life angels in scrubs!
Ambulance Driver And Attendant
The word ambulance comes from the Latin “ambulare” - to walk, a reference to early medical care where a wheeling cart was used to move injured patients. While many things have changed since then, Ambulance Drivers and Attendants remain the first line of defence for the injured, sick or convalescent service as they lift and transport patients to the hospital for medical attention.