Assessor Resource
PUAEME001
Provide emergency care
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to provide emergency care pending the arrival of appropriately qualified personnel. It includes identifying need for emergency care, ensuring personal safety of carer and casualty, reassuring casualty, assessing casualty and implementing emergency care procedures, working cooperatively with personnel from other organisations, recovering and restoring first aid equipment and completing documentation.
The unit is applicable to all public safety personnel who are required to provide initial lifesaving emergency care at an incident. It is not designed for personnel whose primary response role is one of emergency care, first aid or pre-hospital care.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
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