
HLTAID012 - Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
Core Learning Outcomes:
Assess and respond to a variety of first aid situations, including choking, asthma, allergic reactions, and anaphylaxis.
Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on infants and children.
Use an automated external defibrillator (AED) safely and correctly.
Provide first aid for wounds, fractures, burns, and other common injuries.
Follow the DRSABCD action plan to ensure a structured and safe emergency response.
Potential future job roles
HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
HLTAID012 - Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
HLTAID012 - Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
Duration: 1 Day
Category: First Aid
Face to Face contact time of at least 9 Hours
This course can be delivered/assessed in the workplace or at a facility organised by the training provider.
Assessment Activities
At Stella College, students will complete both practical and theory-based assessments to demonstrate their ability to provide first aid in education and care settings.
Performance tasks and practical scenarios:
- Perform CPR on an adult, including the use of an AED and placing a casualty in the recovery position
- Complete a first aid incident report form based on a simulated first aid scenario
- Perform CPR on a child
- Perform CPR on an infant
- Manage a child casualty with anaphylaxis
- Manage a child casualty with asthma
- Manage a choking child and infant casualty
- Manage a child casualty with non-life-threatening bleeding and shock, requiring minor wound cleaning
- Manage a child casualty with a nosebleed
- Manage a child casualty with a fracture and dislocation
- Manage a child casualty with a sprain and strain
- Manage a child casualty with envenomation (snake or funnel-web spider bite)
Theory assessment:
Complete a written assessment consisting of multiple-choice questions
HLTAID011 - Provide First Aid
HLTAID009 - Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
HLTAID012 - Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
Entry Requirements
You must be 18 years or older to be enrolled into this course
You must have the physical capacity to perform the practical demonstrations, such as 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on the floor and performing rescue breathing techniques on manikins.
Stella College recommends, as per the First Aid in the Workplace Code of Practice and the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines, that first aid skills are renewed every 3 years, and resuscitation skills are renewed every 12 months.

