Accidents and emergencies can happen at any time. Completing this Red Cross first aid course will provide you with the confidence and competence ‘at the scene’ to recognise life threatening situations and to offer vital assistance to the patient before more experienced help arrives.

Completion of this first aid course will give you the skills to respond to common first aid response situations and meets NZQA standards and requirements of the “First Aid for Workplaces – A Good Practice Guide 2011”.

This first aid course is being provided to you with a mixture of mobile and classroom learning. You can complete the mobile learning on a device such as a smartphone or tablet. You can do this part of the course in your own time and place, and at your own speed.

The New Zealand Red Cross First Aid and Emergency App provides you with pre-course learning before completing the course in a practical skills workshop for four hours.

After registration you will be emailed with instructions regarding how to complete the mobile learning component of this course. Please note, if you do not complete the mobile learning component you are unable to attend the classroom workshop.

NZQA UNITS: 6401, 6402

You will learn:

• primary assessment

• safe side positioning

• scene management of emergency situations

• CPR - adult, child and infant

• use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

• airway obstruction (choking) - adult, child, infant

• control of severe bleeding

• bleeding, shock and wound care

• fractures, sprains and strains

• medical conditions

• poisons

• burns

MTA requires 24 hour notice for a cancellation. No shows will be charged the full cost of attending the event.