Paediatric First Aid Refresher

This refresher is for early years practitioners, childminders, nannies and other childcare staff. It revisits the first aid priorities for infants and children, including CPR, choking, febrile seizures, meningitis, asthma, anaphylaxis, burns and bleeding, and how to record incidents and inform parents. It is a refresher and awareness course only: it does not provide a paediatric first aid qualification, and the skills it describes must be learned and assessed on a practical course.
Modules
5
Duration
About 50 minutes
Pass mark
80%
Assessment
10 questions from a bank of 18

Learning outcomes

  • ✓Explain the paediatric first aid requirements for early years settings and the limits of this refresher course.
  • ✓Describe how to assess and respond to an unresponsive infant or child, including CPR and the recovery position.
  • ✓Describe how to help a choking infant and a choking child.
  • ✓Recognise and respond to febrile seizures, signs of meningitis, asthma attacks and anaphylaxis.
  • ✓Describe first aid for burns and bleeding in children.
  • ✓Explain how to record incidents and inform parents and other bodies.

Course contents

  1. Module 1: Your Role and First Aid Priorities

    Video (5 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions

  2. Module 2: Unresponsive Infants and Children

    Video (6 scenes) · 2 lessons · 3 practice questions

  3. Module 3: Choking

    Video (5 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions

  4. Module 4: Medical Emergencies

    Video (5 scenes) · 2 lessons · 3 practice questions

  5. Module 5: Burns, Bleeding and After an Incident

    Video (4 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions

  6. Final assessment & certificate