First Responder

(BC EMA Licensing Approved)

About the course:

Comprehensive first aid and CPR skills for professional first responders or those training to become first responders. Course teaches the patient assessment model, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage control, and care for a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Participants will be engaged in dynamic training techniques including video, media presentations, skills demonstrations, practice sessions, discussions and scenarios based on real-life situations

What you will learn:

  • The Professional Responder
  • Responding to the call
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Assessment
  • Airway management and respiratory emergencies
  • Circulatory emergencies
  • Shock
  • Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
  • Musculoskeletal injuries
  • Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
  • Head and spinal injuries
  • Acute and chronic illnesses
  • Poisoning
  • Environmental illnesses
  • Pregnancy, labour and delivery
  • Special populations
  • Crisis intervention
  • Reaching, lifting and extricating patients
  • Multiple-casualty incidents
  • This Program is approved by EMALB BC

Course Duration:

60 hours (includes new scope of practice for FR in BC)

EMALB:

1 Day (students are required to successfully complete 1 medical emergency scenario and 1 trauma scenario, plus complete an EMA Licensing online written evolution)

Prerequisites:

None

Certificate: (validity)

3-year certification in First Responder (digital certificate issued upon successful completion

Course Price:

$780.00 plus GST

RECERtification

Course Duration:

30 Hours

Course Price:

$440.00 plus GST