Diploma of Emergency Health Care - HLT51020
NPT Heart Pty Ltd
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS:
This qualification reflects pre-hospital and out-of-hospital workers employed to provide patient assessment, healthcare and transport services. These workers possess clinical skills and theoretical knowledge and provide clinical assessment and pre-hospital and out-of-hospital interventions to patients in an emergency, including providing advanced skills in life support. This qualification applies to a variety of roles within the health care and patient transport system.To achieve this qualification, the candidate must have completed at least 160 hours of work as detailed in the Assessment Requirements of Units of Competency.No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Manage personal stressors in the work environment
- Interpret and apply medical terminology appropriately
- Respond effectively to behaviours of concern
- Transport non-emergency patients under operational conditions
- Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
- Work with diverse people
- Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety
- Confirm physical health status
- Conduct manual tasks safely
- Manage a scene
- Assess and deliver standard clinical care
- Provide clinical mentoring in the work environment
- Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- Contribute to effective workplace relationships
- Work legally and ethically
- Manage the scene of a major incident
- Communicate in complex situations to support health care
- Implement safe access and egress
- Reflect on and improve own professional practice
- Transport emergency patients
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
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| Mitcham | Yes |
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