FAQ Level 3 Award in Immediate Response Emergency Care (RQF) - IREC® Blended Part One
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Principles of Ambulance Service First Responder Care
- Responsibilities of the First Responder
- The Importance of Being Physically and Mentally Fit to Perform the Role
- Protecting Yourself from Potentially Malicious Allegations
- Methods of Continuing Professional Development
- Asking permission and consent to help
- The Hazards that Pose a Risk to Personal Safety
- Actions to Manage Conflict
- Facts And Information About Abuse
- What causes someone to be vulnerable?
- Who might abuse or neglect
- Who Is A Vulnerable Adult?
- Abuse and its Indicators
- Duty of care
- What is Duty of Candour?
- Why is Duty of Candour Important?
- When Things Go Wrong
- Working as Part of a Team
- The purpose of the Equality Act 2010
- Types of discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Human anatomy and physiology for immediate emergency care
- Assessment of casualties in immediate emergency care
- Complex Scene safety scenario
- Assessing a Major Incident Scene
- DRCA(c)BCDE
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Alternative emergency phone numbers
- Introduction to Initial Patient Care
- Consent to help
- Fears of First Aid
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Chain of Survival
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Waterless hand gels
- Medications and First Aid
- The Ten Second Triage Tool
- Using The Ten Second Triage Tool
- How are 999 Calls Handled
- Basic airway management in emergency care
- Respiration and Breathing
- Postural Drainage
- Peak Flow
- Pocket Masks
- Pocket Mask with Oxygen
- Bag Valve Mask Equipment
- Using a BVM
- Respiratory Injuries Part Three
- Respiratory Injuries Part Four
- Choking Statistics
- Choking Recognition
- Adult Choking
- Choking in children
- Infant Choking
- Trauma from Choking
- Vulnerable People and Choking
- Basic life support and external defibrillation
- Adult CPR Introduction
- RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
- When to call for assistance
- Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
- Cardiac Arrest and CPR Overview
- Adult CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Compressions Only CPR
- Mouth to Stoma Ventilations
- CPR and the female casualty
- Cardiac Arrest and Pregnancy
- Paediatric Airway
- Child CPR
- Adolescent CPR
- Infant CPR
- Infant Recovery Position
- Cardiac Arrest and the Drowned Patient
- Drowning
- SADS
- Effective CPR
- Improving compressions
- Improving breaths
- AED Introduction
- Types of AED Units
- AED Setup
- How to Use an AED
- Using an AED on an adolescent
- Child AED
- Using an AED on an infant
- Update on AED pad placement
- AED Maintenance
- AED Pads
- AED Batteries
- AED Troubleshooting
- AED Locations
- Community AED Units
- AED Post Resuscitation Procedures
- CPR Risks
- Advanced Decision and DNR CPR in Basic Life Support
- Recognition and Management of Life Extinct
- Post Resusitation Care
- Real time CPR scenario
- ROSC Care
- Paediatric Triage and Assessment
- Management of medical conditions
- Asthma
- Asthma Spacers
- When an Asthma inhaler is not available
- Accuhaler®
- Heart Attack
- Warning signs of cardiac arrest and heart attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Stable angina
- Hypertension
- Pulse Oximetry
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy treatment
- Meningitis
- Diabetes
- Blood Sugar Testing
- Poisons and Food Poisoning
- Shock
- Near and secondary drowning
- Cold water shock
- Administration of Medications
- Support the emergency care of wounds, bleeding and burns
- The Pulse
- Capillary Refill
- The Healing Process
- Types of Bleed
- Serious Bleeding
- Ambulance Dressings
- Excessive Blood Loss
- Excessive Bleeding Control
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Embedded Objects
- Knife Wounds
- Trauma and Standard Dressings
- Using trauma dressings
- Amputation Treatment
- Blast Injuries
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Air Wrap Dressings
- RapidStop Tourniquet
- CAT Tourniquets
- SOFT-T tourniquet
- STAT Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Damage caused by tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- What is Woundclot?
- Woundclot trauma gauze
- How Does Woundclot Work
- Woundclot and knife injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- Celox A
- Celox Granules
- Monitoring a Patient
- Coagulopathy
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Management of injuries
- Prioritising first aid
- Pelvic Injuries
- Spinal Injuries
- Rapid Extrication
- SAM Pelvic Sling
- Box Splints
- Spinal Injury
- Opening the airway Jaw Thrust
- Stabilising the spine
- Spinal Recovery Position
- Introduction to Spinal Boards
- The spinal board
- Using the Spinal Board
- The Scoop Stretcher
- Using the scoop stretcher
- Cervical collars
- Vertical C-Spine Immobilisation
- Joint examination
- Adult fractures
- Types of fracture
- Horizontal Slings
- Management of trauma
- Elevated Slings
- Lower limb immobilisation
- Elevation Techniques
- Helmet Removal
- Different Types of Helmets
- The Carry Chair
- Applying Plasters
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Eye Injuries
- Electrical Injuries
- Foreign objects in the eye, ears or nose
- Nose bleeds
- Bites and stings
- Chest Injuries
- Foxseal chest seals
- Abdominal Injuries
- Treating Snake Bites
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Other Types of Injury
- Dental Injuries
- Trauma Scenario Examples
- Recognition and management of anaphylaxis
- What is Anaphylaxis
- Living with Anaphylaxis
- Minor allergic reactions
- Common causes of allergic reactions
- What is an Auto-Injector?
- Jext®
- EpiPen®
- Adrenaline nasal spray for anaphylaxis
- Storage and disposal
- Who prescribes auto injectors?
- Checking Auto Injector and Expiry Dates
- Signs and Symptoms of Anaphylaxis
- Basic First Aid Advice
- Schools and teachers
- Giving a second dose
- Biphasic Anaphylactic Response
- Administration of oxygen therapy
- What are Medical Gasses
- Oxygen
- When Oxygen is Used
- Contra Indications Of Oxygen
- Hazards of using oxygen
- Hypoxia
- BOC Oxygen Kit
- The BOC Cylinder
- Storage Of Oxygen
- PIN INDEX cylinder
- Oxygen Regulators
- Standard oxygen cylinder
- Transport of Cylinders
- How long does an Oxygen cylinder last?
- Oxygen and Anaphylaxis
- Demand Valves and MTV's
- Non Rebreather Mask
- Nasal Cannula
- Medical gas storage
- Mental Health
- Recognising mental ill health
- Mental Health definition and terminology
- Mental health, stereotyping, stigma and discrimination
- Who can be affected and what are the common triggers
- What is stress
- Anxiety
- Types of mental ill health
- Starting a discussion
- Supporting someone with suicidal thoughts
- What is signposting
- Course Summary and your Practical Part
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The Equality Act 2010 is an integral UK law that prohibits discrimination against individuals based on certain 'Protected Characteristics'. Prior to this legislation, these were known as discrimination grounds. In total, there are nine protected characteristics that we'll explore individually. However, remember that not all types of discrimination apply equally to each of these characteristics. The NINE protected characteristics are: 1. Age: Previously, laws already restricted employers from unjustifiably deeming a candidate too old or young for a role. The Equality Act 2010 re-emphasises that age-based discrimination is unlawful. However, differential treatment due to age can be justified and lawful if reasonable. For instance, it's acceptable for an employer to decline a job applicant if they're too young and the position demands considerable experience that can't be substituted with training. Historically, contracts of employment could include a default retirement age of 65, with employment fairly terminating upon reaching this age. However, the government has moved to phase out this legal default retirement age, with its full implications on age discrimination still being determined. 2. Disability: The Act defines disability as a physical or mental condition that significantly and persistently impairs day-to-day activities. Protections for disabled individuals have long been in place in the UK, even before the 2010 Act. This legislation, however, enshrines the employer's obligation to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate disabled employees. Under the Act, indirect, associative, and perceptive discrimination against disabled people is illegal. It also limits the use of pre-employment health inquiries, restricting them to scenarios where determining necessary adjustments for a new hire is essential. 3. Pregnancy and Maternity: Women who are pregnant or on maternity leave enjoy protection against direct discrimination. Employers must not factor in pregnancy-related absences when making decisions regarding a woman's employment. In non-work contexts, protection against maternity discrimination lasts for 26 weeks post-birth, including protection against unfavourable treatment due to breastfeeding. 4. Marriage and Civil Partnership: Both same-sex and heterosexual marriages and civil partnerships must be recognised and treated equally. It's unlawful to discriminate directly or indirectly against individuals based on their marital status or partnership. 5. Gender Reassignment: This term refers to the process of transitioning from one gender to another. It's crucial for employers to accommodate individuals intending to, currently undergoing, or having completed a gender transition. Importantly, the Act does not cover transsexual individuals who don't plan to permanently live in their transitioned gender. Before the Act, legal protection was contingent on medical supervision for gender transition. This provision was abolished in the 2010 Act. Any form of discrimination against transsexual individuals, including indirect, associative, or perceptive discrimination, is illegal. 6. Race: The Act prohibits all forms of racial discrimination, including prejudice based on colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origins. 7. Religion or Belief: People are protected against all forms of discrimination based on their religion, beliefs, or lack thereof. For protection under the Act, a religion should have a structured belief system. A belief must significantly influence one's life choices or lifestyle. Notably, the Act doesn't provide protection for political beliefs. 8. Sex: Everyone has the right to be free from discrimination due to their sex. The Act safeguards against all forms of sex-based discrimination, adding to the plethora of sexual equality laws in place over the years. And finally 9, sexual Orientation: Individuals are protected against all forms of discrimination based on their sexual orientation, whether they identify as bisexual, gay, heterosexual, or lesbian. While we've been discussing the Act mainly within the context of employment, remember it extends beyond the workplace. Consider your personal interactions and whether you've ever treated someone differently due to their religion, belief, or physical appearance.
Overview of the Equality Act 2010
A comprehensive breakdown of the nine protected characteristics and their implications in and out of the workplace.
The Nine Protected Characteristics
1. Age
Outlines the prohibition of age-based discrimination, with exceptions for justified differential treatment.
2. Disability
Defines disability and mandates reasonable adjustments for disabled employees. Includes protections against indirect, associative, and perceptive discrimination.
3. Pregnancy and Maternity
Protects against discrimination during pregnancy and maternity leave, including provisions for breastfeeding.
4. Marriage and Civil Partnership
Ensures equal treatment for all marital statuses and partnerships.
5. Gender Reassignment
Covers individuals transitioning genders, removing previous medical supervision requirements.
6. Race
Prohibits discrimination based on race, colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origins.
7. Religion or Belief
Protects against discrimination based on religion or personal beliefs, excluding political beliefs.
8. Sex
Guarantees freedom from sex-based discrimination.
9. Sexual Orientation
Protects individuals from discrimination based on sexual orientation, including bisexual, gay, heterosexual, or lesbian identities.
Scope Beyond Employment
Emphasizes the Act's applicability to personal interactions, urging consideration of treatment towards others based on these characteristics.
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