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First Aid Courses

  • 09-05-2006 1:04pm
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    Excelsior
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    Interpreting this board as Fitness in terms of Health, I thought I might come here to ask if anyone knows of any places around Dublin where I could do a First Aid course. I ideally would have completed the course by the start of July. Anyone with any ideas?


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  • #2
    The Hill Billy
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    You could try calling Irish Red Cross - they have branches all over the place & run courses occasionally...
    http://www.redcross.ie/

    Your local authority may also run these as part of any adult education programme.


  • #3
    g'em
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    What do you need the course for? Do you need CPR and first aid? is it a specific first aid at work course you need? I'm a CPR/ AED/ First Aid instructor so pm me if ye like.


  • #4
    Gillo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    Why do you need the course?
    If it's for a work qualification (bearing in mind every business is meant to have one person trained in first aid on every site: site, been office, store, creche etc not just a "building site"). Check with the red cross, order of Malta etc.

    If its simply something you want to do, I'd recommend doing Rescue & Emergency Care level 1 (REC), it's the entry level course for adventure sports / mountaineering so it is orientated towards that area, but it's much more hands on and is a better course in the long run.

    From my experience I did a 10 week course with the Order of Malta, (I'm gonna assume it's basically the same as the Red Cross) and it was very this is how you diagnoise X and this is how you treat it. I also did the REC course and it was more oriented towards dealing with an situation so instead of this is a broken arm and this is how to treat it, you are also thought to look at what caused it, is there likely to be anything else wrong with the causalty, is there a risk of further injury to the casualty, myself or anyone else.

    With REC, you can go on to do further training up to a much higher level. the only draw back is it is only valid for 3 years, then you have to be reassessed, which in all fairness is actually a good thing.

    Tiglin do weekend residental courses but have just closed for refurbishment, I know someone who delivers teh courses, so if you are interested pm me, and I'll see what the story is.


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