Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting.

1. Provide an Emergency First Aid
Response in an Education & Care
Setting
Legal, Workplace and Welfare
Considerations
Jackie Matheson
First Aid Mentor

2. A child care service must provide at least one
educator who has:
• A current first aid qualification
• A current anaphylaxis management
qualification
• A current emergency asthma management
qualification
Legal, Workplace & Welfare Considerations in Child Care Services
First Aid Requirements for Child Care Services2

3. • Debrief meetings
• Advice on post traumatic stress management
• Counselling
• Follow up with child/family affected
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Post Incident Support3

4. • Located in a central position or near first aid kit.
• Available to all staff.
• CPR instructions must be displayed where there is a
swimming pool.
• Specific instructions relating to a child must be
displayed in a prominent and logical position.
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Access to First Aid Policies and Procedures4

5. • Consideration for age and stage of development
• Provide reassurance
• Age appropriate factual information
• Discuss the event and their responses
• Talk about feelings
• Allow time to listen and process
• Be considerate to change in children’s disposition,
behaviour and communication
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Communicating with children post event5

6. • Upper airway easily obstructed in infants due to
narrow nasal passages
• Soft and pliable trachea is easily distorted by
excessive head tilt – leave head in neutral position
for infants, slight head tilt for children
• Prone to head injuries due to size of head – also
suspect neck injury
• Bones incompletely calcified – less able to absorb
energy applied which leads to internal organ damage
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Anatomical differences of children6