Reference no: EM133242701

This assessment task requires you to provide first aid for a range of situations as outlined below.

Your assessor will set up the simulated situations and for each of the situations below you will be required to manage the casualty. Another student or your assessor will be the casualty and you must always ask for consent to proceed where possible.

For each first aid situation you also need to make sure you correctly select and use the required first aid equipment. You also need to show that you are monitoring the casualty whilst you are providing first aid. This will be dependent on the situation.

Activity 1: Respond to a child who is experiencing anaphylaxis. There is no parent or caregiver in the vicinity.

Activity 2: Respond to an adult who is experiencing a severe asthma attack.

Activity 3: Respond to an eight-month-old baby who was eating and now seems to be choking on their food. Assume you are babysitting and there is no other parent or caregiver in the vicinity.

Activity 4: Respond to an adult who has just been bitten by a snake that you believe to be a brown snake but you're not sure. The snake has moved off.

Activity 5: Respond to a young adult who was playing soccer and has collapsed on the ground screaming they have broken their leg. Their ankle is painful and swollen. Their skin is intact and there is no bleeding.

Activity 6: An 8-year-old child has just cut their foot on a sharp edge. There is minor bleeding. The child is a family member and you are the only adult around.

Activity 7: A child where you work has a nosebleed. You are the only adult in the vicinity.

Activity 8: A colleague has just witnessed an awful motor vehicle accident. They come back to work and collapse on the floor.