Course Details
Course Code:
WFTR 103
Calendar Description:
This Worker’s Compensation Board approved course prepares the OFA attendant for prehospital emergency care in industry. Successful completion requires at least a 70% grade on each of the practical and written examinations.
Date First Offered:
2005-04-27
Hours:
Total Hours: 75
Lecture Hours: 10
Other Contact Hours: 5
Practicum Hours:
Total Practicum Hours: 25
Total Weeks:
2
This course is offered online:
No
Pre-Requisites:
Must be 16 years of age and complete a physical exam before the first day of class.
Non-Course Pre-Requisites:
None
Co-Requisites:
None
Rearticulation Submission:
No
Course Content:
Course Introduction
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will be able to:
- perform the priority action approach to the end of the secondary survey for conscious non-RTC patients and for patients in the first aid room
- assess, manage, identify the need for medical aid referral, and complete documentation for soft tissue injuries
- move patients to the supine position from either a standing or sitting position with C-spine control
- have an awareness of critical incident stress and its impact on first aid attendants
- prepare patients for rapid transport in the supine position (the procedures will not take longer than 15 minutes from the approach to the patient)
- perform the priority action approach to the end of the secondary survey for patients with a decreased level of consciousness
- move patients to the supine position maintaining C-spine control from the prone position
- identify and manage critical interventions of the airway with C-spine control for conscious patients and patients with a decreased level of consciousness
- demonstrate the use of suction equipment to manage critical airway interventions
- identify respiratory emergencies and manage critical interventions
- identify circulatory emergencies and manage critical interventions
- identify and manage head, brain and spinal injuries
- describe how to identify and manage strokes and seizures
- identify and manage pelvic and abdominal injuries
- describe how to identify and manage diabetic conditions
- identify and manage upper limb fractures and dislocations
- describe how to identify and manage asthmatic conditions
- identify and manage electrical injuries
- identify and manage environmental emergencies, lower limb fractures and dislocations
- identify common communicable diseases, routes of transmission, prevention of infection in particular or bloodborne pathogens
- describe the key factors in multiple casualty management
- identify and describe method of transportation for injured workers and factors used to make transportation decisions
- identify and describe management of Occupational Dermatitis
- describe the general classifications of poisons and describe the priority action approach for poisoning and substance abuse
Grading System:
Percentage
Passing Grade:
70%
Grading Weight:
Final Exam: 50 %
Other: 50 %
Course Offered in Other Programs:
No
Text Books:
Required - Unknown, WCB Occupational First Aid Level III