When help is hours away or more, you need to know remote first aid. Without professional medical help around, you’re the one who needs to step in and take action to help keep someone (or yourself) stabilised over an extended period until they can get the help they need.
HLTAID013 Provide First Aid in Remote or Isolated Site goes beyond standard first aid training to equip students with the skills to manage outdoor medical emergencies where delayed medical assistance is the reality rather than the exception.
What You'll Learn in Remote First Aid Training
Our remote first aid course covers everything you need to manage an injury in a challenging environment. Starting with basic first aid for any situation, you’ll expand on this to gain the skills and knowledge required to provide first aid in a remote situation. This includes:
Using first aid kits and communication equipment
Recognising and assessing emergency situations.
Triaging multiple victims.
Reading and analysing vital signs.
Tourniquets and haemostatic dressing use.
Envenomation treatment using the pressure immobilisation technique (PIT).
Managing fractures, dislocations, sprains, and strains.
Treating hypothermia, hyperthermia, and shock.
Handling head and neck injuries.
Responding to anaphylaxis and asthma.
Evacuation planning and coordination.
CPR
As part of any first aid training course, you’ll also learn to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CPR is an emergency life-saving technique which uses a combination of rescue breaths and chest compressions to keep oxygen-rich blood flowing to someone’s brain when they either stop breathing normally or their heart stops beating.
CPR is taught in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines. As part of your remote first aid course you’ll learn how to spot the signs and symptoms that someone needs CPR, the correct rate and depth of chest compressions, how to deliver rescue breaths, how to make sure the scene is safe, when to call for help, and how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).
Course Delivery and Requirements
The HLTAID013 remote area first aid course takes hours of face-to-face training, including your final assessment. You’ll receive a pre-course knowledge workbook to complete before attending your training session to ensure you’re fully prepared to dive right in.
To enrol, you must be at least 14 years old (those under 18 require parental consent). You’ll also need basic English literacy and communication skills to engage with the course content. Lastly, you’ll need to meet the physical requirements of being able to perform at least two minutes of uninterrupted CPR on manikins placed on the floor.
Upon successful completion of your remote first aid course, you’ll receive a same-day digital first aid certificate and statement of attainment. Congratulations, you are now a remote first aider!
Who Should Take A Remote First Aid Course?
Anyone working or living in isolated areas should take a remote first aid course. Whether you’re in the middle of the Australian outback, the rainforest, or just miles from the closest hospital, you’ll stand to gain a lot from learning remote first aid skills.
Professionally, a remote first aid course is great for tour guides, recreational instructors, mine workers, farmers, truckdrivers, and rural and remote property workers. Even if you’re just passing through as a hiker or backpacker, this course could give you the skills you need to save a life.
Get Certified
A remote first aid skill set gives you the tools to provide a first aid response when no one else can. By enrolling nationally recognised training with our in our remote or isolated course you’ll become skilled in wilderness risk management, emergency evacuation planning, and extended casualty care. Enjoy the peace of mind knowing that when isolated location injuries occur, your outdoor safety training from this remote or isolated site course can keep an accident from becoming a tragedy.
FAQs
The first step in snake bite remote area first aid training is to keep the victim still and calm to slow the spread of venom. Place a pressure immobilisation bandage over the bite site, then wrap firmly overlapping each layer by half the bandage width until you reach the end of the limb before wrapping it back up as much as possible.
Remove any wet clothing and replace it with dry clothes, blankets, or a sleeping bag. If they are conscious and can swallow, give them warm sweet drinks such as hot chocolate, sweet tea, or soup, and with high-energy foods like chocolate, but never alcohol. Keep them lying down.
HLTAID009 Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation is the nationally recognised course for CPR training. While CPR is included in remote first aid training and HLTAID011 Provide First Aid, this course is offered separately as first aid skills are renewed every 3 years and resuscitation skills renewed every 12 months.
