Child First Aid (NCMA)

Criteria for first aid courses for early years and childcare settings.

This course covers paediatric first aid. General first aid certificates are the normal requirements for employers, although required in work settings, are not sufficient for working young children and babies. For settings covering only 12 16 years olds an adult first aid certificate is appropriate.

Training should be designed for workers caring for children in the absence of their parents.

The training leading to a certificate or a renewal certificate should be a minimum of 12 hours.

The first aid certificate is renewed every 3 years.

Resuscitation and other equipment should include baby, and junior models as appropriate.

Training should cover appropriate contents of first aid kit for babies and children.

Training should include recording accidents and incidents

Course content

• Planning for first aid emergencies involving babies and children
• Dealing with emergencies involving babies and children
• Resuscitating babies and children
• Recognising and dealing with shock in babies and children
• Recognising and responding appropriately to anaphylactic shock in babies and children
• Recognising and responding appropriately to electric shock in babies and children
• Recognising and responding appropriately to bleeding in babies and children
• Responding appropriately to burns and scalds in babies and children
• Responding appropriately to choking in babies and children
• Responding appropriately to suspected fractures in babies and children
• Responding appropriately to head, neck and back injuries in babies and children
• Recognising and responding appropriately to cases of poisoning in babies and children
• Responding appropriately to foreign bodies in eyes, ears and nose of babies and children
• Responding appropriately to eye injuries in babies and children
• Responding appropriately to bites and stings in babies and children
• Responding appropriately with effects of extreme heat and cold in babies and children
• Responding appropriately to febrile convulsions in babies and young children.
• Recognising and responding appropriately to the emergency needs of babies and children with chronic medical conditions including:- epilepsy, asthma, sickle cell, diabetes.
• Recognising and responding appropriately to meningitis and other serious sudden illness
• Recording of accidents and incidents.