FREC First Response Emergency Care Level 4
This OFqual regulated qualification is the ideal foundation for the candidate working toward a career as a registered healthcare professional and is the logical next step following completion of the level 3 qualification.
Successful completion of this course will provide the knowledge and practical competencies required to deal with a wide range of pre-hospital care emergencies. These might include: major incidents, fracture immobilisation, sick and injured children, and situations arising from mental health problems, to name a few.
Meeting all the criteria set out in the Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) skills framework at descriptor level E, the course will cover the following units:
- Unit 1 First Response Emergency Care Assessment Skills and Medical Gases
- Unit 2 First Response Emergency Care Trauma Life Support
- Unit 3 First Response Emergency Care and Assisting Advanced Procedures
- Practical assessments/skills tests – observed by the Trainer throughout the course, with the results of each learning outcome recorded on the practical assessment paperwork
- Three workbooks that will be completed in the evenings of the course
Topics covered include:
- Initial patient assessment
- Physiological measures
- Anatomy and physiology
- Heart disease
- Electrocardiogram application and monitoring
- Managing a patient’s airway – supraglottic airways
- Medical gases – including dosages and administration
- Thoracic trauma
- Mechanism of injury and kinetics
- Triage
- Full body and limb immobilisation
- Management of suspected or actual cases of sexual assault
- Psychosocial development in children
- Emergency care for sick and injured children
- Dealing with a patient displaying signs of mental health problems
- Assisting with advanced airway management, vascular access and infusion