Outdoor Pursuits 16-hour First Aid - Level 3 (VTQ)
This course is designed for outdoor pursuit instructors and students, mountain climbers, watersports or SCUBA instructors or anyone undertaking outdoor activities in more remote areas where the Emergency Medical Services are going to be delayed getting to you.
This 16-hour course is aligned with the Institute for Outdoor Learning (IOL) Statement of Good Practice on Outdoor First Aid at Band 3.
We can offer this course as a classroom or blended course, where students complete the Activity First Aid online blended part 1 course, then attend a classroom course to practice the skills that have been learnt online.
All our first aid courses fully meet the UK and European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021 as per the HSE requirements and are endorsed by Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).
Certificates are valid for 3 years.
Contact us now for more details and a special group rate for your activity centre.
Course content -
- Introductory First Aid Training
- Fears of First Aid
- Asking Permission to Help
- Scene Safety
- Chain of Survival
- ABCD's
- Initial Assessment
- Stop, Think, Act
- Barriers
- Face Shields
- Adult Bag Mask (optional)
- First Aid Kit
- Dealing with an Emergency away from EMS support
- Deciding to move a patient or not
- Cardiac Arrest
- Adult, Child, Infant CPR
- Adult CPR Hand Over
- Compression-Only CPR
- AED Introduction
- Heart Attack
- Heart Attack
- Choking Training
- Responsive Adult, Child, Infant Choking
- Unresponsive Adult, Child, Infant Choking
- Bleeding Control
- Types of Bleeding
- Serious Bleeding
- Internal bleeding
- Plasters
- Other Injuries
- Secondary Care Ongoing Assessments for Injury and Illness
- Illness Assessment
- RICE - Strains, Sprains and Soft Tissue Injuries
- Adult Fractures
- Head Injuries
- Eye Injuries
- Spinal Injury
- Allergies
- Burns
- Heat and Cold Emergencies
- Shock
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Epilepsy and Seizures