Course Details
Course Code:
WFTR 116
Calendar Description:
The Occupational First Aid Level II Training covers all emergency medical techniques considered to be the responsibility of the First Aid Attendant providing emergency care in industry. This course consists of 36 hours of classroom study and practice. To qualify a person must be at least 16 years old, but is required to be 19 to be a workplace attendant without supervision at the workplace.
Date First Offered:
2005-09-01
Hours:
Total Hours: 36
Lecture Hours: 36
Total Weeks:
2
This course is offered online:
No
Pre-Requisites:
Must be 16 years of age
Non-Course Pre-Requisites:
Students must pass a Medical Certificate of Fitness prior to certification (cost of medical is not included in the course)
Co-Requisites:
None
Rearticulation Submission:
No
Course Content:
The following topics are covered in this course:
-Ground rules and expectations of the course
-Job site preparedness
-Procedures for rapidly evaluating the severity of a patient's injuries
-Secondary survey
-Vital signs
-History taking and head-to-toe examination
-Oral airways
-Review Glasgow Coma Scale
-Oxygen therapy
-Prone to supine role
-Primary and secondary survey on a patient with a decreased level of consciousness
-Skin and soft tissue anatomy and function
-Wounds and complications
-Soft tissue injury management
-Documentation
-Airway anatomy and function
-Causes and types of airway obstruction
-Signs and symptoms of airway obstruction
-Airway management
-Respiratory system anatomy and function
-Causes and types of respiratory emergencies
-Signs and symptoms of respiratory emergencies
-Respiratory emergency management
-Circulatory system anatomy and function
-Causes of circulatory emergencies
-Signs and symptoms of circulatory emergencies
-Circulatory emergency management
-Cardiac emergencies
-Cardiac emergency management
-Review major concepts
-Review the priority action approach for all patients
-Scenario practice
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course participants will be able to do the following:
- Perform the priority action approach to the end of the secondary survey for conscious patients, patients requiring urgent medical attention, and for patients in the first aid room.
- Describe the signs of critical indecent stress and its impact on first aid attendants.
- Perform the priority action approach to the end of the secondary survey for patients with a decreased level of consciousness
- Describe how to identify and manage strokes and seizures
- Assess, manage, and identify the need for medical aid referral
- Complete documentation for soft tissue injuries
- Identify and manage critical interventions of the airway with C-spine control for conscious patients and patients with a decreased level of consciousness
- Describe the general classifications of poisons and describe the priority action approach for poisoning and substance abuse
- Identify respiratory emergencies and manage critical interventions
- Describe how to identify and manage asthmatic conditions, and electrical injuries.
- Identify circulatory emergencies and manage critical interventions
- Describe how to identify and manage diabetic conditions
- Identify and manage environmental emergencies
- Identify common communicable diseases, routes of transmission, and prevention of infection in particular bloodborne pathogens.
Grading System:
Pass/Fail
Passing Grade:
70% on both written and practi
Grading Weight:
Final Exam: 100 %
Course Offered in Other Programs:
No
Supplies:
First Aid supplies provided by Training Institution
Text Books:
Required - Workers' Compensation Board of Canada, Occupational First Aid - A Reference and Training Manual
Required - Workers' Compensation Board of Canada, Occupational First Aid Level 2 Training Guide