Duration: 6.5 hours 

PHECC has designed the First Aid Essentials Standard to offer appropriate training to individuals and groups who require a basic first aid skill set including cardiac first response.

Key statements:
The First Aid Essentials (FAE) standard is a suite of courses tailored to specific groupings to provide first aid education and skills to target specific areas of interest, within a one-day 
programme (or 6.5 hours). 
There are three distinct streams to the First Aid Essentials programme, all designed around course delivery in one day (6.5 hours teaching time) and including a core module of CFR Community. 
The streams are:
• Basic First Aid – aimed at a general population but adaptable for specific groups.
• Paediatric First Aid – aimed at early years sector or general interest in first aid from e.g. parents/ guardians.
• Community First Responder – aimed at members of community first responders or voluntary organisation

First Aid Essentials Standard Rationale
The First Aider will possess the following general skills. The ability to:
• deal with life threatening or potentially life-threatening conditions in the pre-hospital environment until arrival of emergency medical services.
• provide First Aid Response for conditions not thought to be life-threatening but are necessary to prevent further harm before the emergency medical services arrive.
• provide pre-hospital First Aid Response in a wide range of environments including home, recreational and workplace settings
• display the requisite personal skills including composure, competence and selfconfidence while understanding their limitations.

Certification: Successful completion of the First Aid Essentials course leads to joint certification by both PHECC and ProTraining Courses Ireland as an approved training instititute.

Specific Learning Requirements

ProTraining Courses will at all times ensure equality in our service provision. We therefore ask any learner who has specific learning requirements to contact our office on (047) 88598 or at the time of booking the training and we will ensure that all possible measures are taken to meet their specific requirements. All of our training courses are delivered through English and therefore participants must have a good understanding of the English language. In the case where this is not so, learners are permitted to bring an interpreter but prior notice must be given to ProTraining Courses.

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