Diploma of First Aid and Patient Care Skills

Be the person who knows what to do.

Learn life-saving First Aid and CPR lessons in Somali from cardiac arrest and choking to bleeding control, burns, fractures and medical emergencies.

What you'll master

• Perform CPR on adults
• children and babies
• Recognise the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest
• Use hands-only CPR when appropriate
• Operate an AED safely and confidently
• Deliver CPR effectively with a second responder
• Clear a blocked airway using the Heimlich manoeuvre on adults
• children and babies
• Control severe bleeding using direct and indirect pressure
• Apply and improvise a tourniquet correctly
• Bandage wounds using sound bandaging principles
• Assess and treat an injured casualty using a structured trauma framework
• Treat burns
• fractures
• sprains
• dislocations and head injuries
• Recognise and manage dehydration
• hyperthermia
• frostbite and hypothermia
• Respond to stroke
• asthma
• seizures
• fainting
• allergic reactions
• animal bites and diabetic emergencies
• Assemble a practical first aid kit
• Move an injured person safely without causing further harm.