Provide Pain Management
Course overview
Key details
5 hours
In classroom (face-to-face)
This course is delivered as a private course only.
Request a quote for a booking or email firstaidtraining@ambulance.qld.gov.au.
On successful completion of this course, a Statement of Attainment will be awarded in:
- PUAEME008 Provide pain management
Description
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to administer restricted analgesics to provide pain management as part of a medically supervised first responder organisation. It includes identifying the need for analgesia; accessing, preparing and administering restricted pain relief such as analgesics according to medically endorsed protocols; performing casualty handovers and completing analgesic use requirements.
It is suitable for personnel from emergency services, volunteer organisations or organisations that provide a medically supervised first aid service.
Course content
- Identify need for analgesic
- Access and prepare analgesic
- Administer analgesic
- Perform casualty handover
- Complete analgesic use requirements.
Private and corporate training
This course can be delivered privately, allowing you and your staff or community group to undertake first aid training at your own workplace or venue. Request a quote for a booking or email firstaidtraining@ambulance.qld.gov.au.
Course duration
This course generally runs for 5 hours
Sometimes we may run over time in order to meet the needs of the students such as:
- participant numbers
- prior skills and knowledge
- industry experience
- language, literacy and numeracy skills.
If we believe the course will run over time, the trainer and assessor will let you know as soon as possible.
Entry requirements
Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN)
To assist in identifying any special learning needs, the QAS RTO may ask that you provide some information regarding your LLN level and requirements prior to the start of the course. If you do have any learning difficulties, you are encouraged to discuss these prior to course commencement. All discussions are treated as strictly confidential.
This course will be delivered in the English.
First Aid training for students under 18
Students under 18 years of age are welcome to take part in any of the First Aid training offered by QAS. However, it should be noted that, due to the nature of First Aid training, some coursework contains images of a graphic nature and involves discussion about severely injured or deceased patients. All students are expected to take part in simulated First Aid scenarios, some of which may be considered confronting in nature.
If you are under the age of 18, you must:
- obtain the permission of a parent or guardian to attend
- have your parent or guardian complete the Parent/Guardian Consent Form and Student Enrolment Form
In addition, students under 16 years of age must have an adult accompany them to the course. The accompanying adult can attend the course as a paying course participant or be present in the course as a parent/ carer chaperone.
The reason for adult course permission and accompaniment for under-age students is due to the nature of some course content which includes graphic images of wounds or body trauma as well as detailed verbal references to body parts and injury. This content matter may be offensive or unsettling to some people, including children.
QAS recommends 14 years of age as the minimum age for students enrolling in First Aid courses. It is also worth keeping in mind that a very young person may have insufficient strength in their arms and shoulders to depress a mannikin to achieve competency in CPR.
Pre-requisites
HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
Photo identification
Prior to the commencement of your course, you will be required to present photo identification to your instructor for sighting.
If you cannot provide acceptable photo identification on the day, your instructor will not be able to confirm your authenticity before performing a task and will not be able to determine your level of competency.
The below 5 forms of hardcopy ID are acceptable.
- an Australian driver licence or learner permit
- a foreign driver licence
- a passport from any country
- a recognised proof-of-age card
- an Australian student ID card issued in your name with your photo or signature from a secondary school, TAFE, university or Registered Training Organisation. You can only use this if you’re under 18 and don’t have any of the other documents.
We also accept forms of ID in a digital version. These include:
- the Australia Post Keypass identity card (Keypass in Digital iD™)
- the South Australian digital driver licence, which is available through the MySA GOV app
The ID document must be current and include a photo of the person and their date of birth.