(PHECC) EMT to QA Level 3 (AEUCS) Diploma in Ambulance Emergency and Urgent Care Support Bridging Course

Course Duration: 2 days

Course Dates: 22nd & 23rd of June.

Location: Dublin Ireland

Price: €999

About the Course

This bridging course is designed for Irish EMT’s looking to transfer their skills to UK L3 AEUCS. Students must hold an Irish EMT qualification as a prerequisite.

This course is regulated by Ofqual and is designed for individuals interested in working alongside paramedics as part of the ambulance service. This course will provide the learner with all the necessary skills and knowledge on how to manage a variety of emergencies appropriately such as trauma injury and management, patient assessment, working with paediatrics and elderly patients and medicines management to name a few. Following the successful completion of this course, the learner will be qualified as an Emergency Care Assistant (ECA).

Diploma in Ambulance Emergency & Urgent Care Support Level 3 (RQF)- Breakdown

The purpose of this Level 3 Diploma in Ambulance Emergency and Urgent Care Support is to provide the learner with the skills, knowledge and understanding to be able to work as a part of an emergency ambulance crew, responding to 999 calls supporting the Associate Ambulance Practitioner (AAP) or registered Paramedic.

This role includes supporting the clinician with the care of a patient with varying needs and in a variety of environments and settings, sometimes including very difficult circumstances such as accidents an where time to provide support to patients is critical to their health.

The role may also include attending to patients with colleagues of the same grade to a patient that has been referred by the emergency operations centre, 111 service, GP urgent referrals and other allied healthcare professions within the community.

Emergency and urgent and care support staff have a good understanding of anatomy and physiology, the ability to carry out patient assessment, physiological measurement and continued patient monitoring with a range of skills that support the lead clinician with advanced procedures. This qualification will be a combination of full-time education with formative and summative assessment and consolidation in the real work environment.

 

  • Principles of Ambulance Patient Care in emergency and urgent settings

  • Anatomy and physiology for ambulance patient care

  • Assessment, physiological measurements and continued monitoring of emergency and urgent

    care patients

  • Airway management, basic life support and external defibrillation

  • Care for older people in the emergency and urgent care setting

  • Support the management of trauma in the emergency and urgent care setting

  • Support the clinician in the management of patients during pregnancy, childbirth and care of

    babies and children

  • Bereavement and end of life care in the emergency and urgent care setting

  • Support the clinician in the management of hostile & major incidents in the emergency and

    urgent care setting

  • Managing hazardous materials, cleaning, decontamination and waste management in the

    emergency and urgent care setting

  • Conflict resolution training for ambulance services

  • Using communication and information systems in ambulance patient care