American Healthcare Academy First Aid Course

Details

First Aid is defined as the medical attention that is given to an ill or injured person before medical experts arrive on the scene. OSHA details First Aid care to include cleaning minor cuts and scratches, treating burns, helping to relieve heat stress, and more.

Topics Covered

Introduction
First Aid Basics
Safety Precautions
Breathing Emergencies
Choking Emergencies
Nervous Systems Emergencies
Allergy Emergencies
Bites and Sting Emergencies
Heat and Cold-Related Emergencies
Wound Emergencies
Muscle, Bone, and Joint Emergencies
Burns Emergencies
Poison Emergencies

Learning Objectives

Emergencies can always arise. For this reason, it is important to be knowledgeable about First Aid so you can be prepared to act if an accident were to occur.

First Aid is defined as the medical attention that is given to an ill or injured person before medical experts arrive on the scene. OSHA details First Aid care to include cleaning minor cuts and scratches, treating burns, helping to relieve heat stress, and more.

This course follows updated, Nationally Accepted guidelines and is designed to provide you with basic First Aid skills that will allow you to make a sound decision in the face of an emergency.

Target Audience

Healthcare Professionals Educators and Childcare Providers, Corporate and Workplace Training, General Public and Community Members

Additional credit info

CPRAEDCourse.com, operated by the American Health Care Academy (AHCA), offers a range of online CPR, First Aid, and advanced life support courses that provide Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education (CE) credits. These courses are jointly accredited by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine, which holds accreditations from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).