
First Aid Skills
Paramedic Instructors

First Aid Training
First Aid Skills provides courses for all businesses, construction sites, offices, schools, sports clubs and groups at your place of work or any location seven days a week. All courses can be tailored to suit your needs. We are fully insured and provide certificates and first aid skill books on all our courses. We only use the state-of-the-art equipment. All instructors are fully qualified and have years of experience teaching and working in emergency services in Ireland.
Call and speak to one of our expert instructors today to find out more.
About us
Instructors
All our instructors hold minimum PHECC CFR and FAR instructor as standard. To enhance the delivery of training, our instructors are also trained as paramedics and currently hold this qualification on the PHECC register.
What do we offer
First Aid & Health & Safety Courses

Emergency/Sports First Aid
This course covers the essential skills and principles of first aid for treating common sports injuries. You will also learn the skills and knowledge to assist an athlete until further help arrives.
Topics Covered
- Adult resuscitation (CPR)*
- Bone, muscle and joint injuries
- Chest pains
- Child resuscitation (CPR)
- Communication and casualty care
- Head injuries
- Heat and cold extremes
- Managing a casualty outdoors
- Minor and severe bleeding
- Primary survey
- Role of the Sports First Aider
- Shock
- Unresponsive adult
- Unresponsive child

Emergency First Aid
for
TY Students
TY is a special and exciting year for TY students. It provides an opportunity for students to explore new subjects and interests, develop new skills, and gain valuable life experiences.
Therefore, we have designed our Transition Year First Aid course with the specific needs of TY students in mind.
Topics Covered
Roles and Responsibilities of a First Aider
- Calling for Help
- Managing a Scene
- Recovery Position
- Mental Health Awareness for teenagers
- Controlling Bleeds
- Anaphylaxis
- Asthma
- Posioning
- Seizures
- Stroke
- Heart Attack
- Use of Bandages and Dressings
- Minor Injuries
- Managing Shock
- CPR Adult
- CPR Child
- CPR Infant
- AED
- Choking Adult
- Choking Child
- Choking Infant

Parent/Paediatric First Aid
Paediatric first aid is essential for any parent or adult working with children. This course teaches all you need to know, from the role of first responders, from choking to cpr skills that you may need as a First Aider in case of an emergency.
Topics Covered
- First Aid – action planning
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- Resuscitation (child, infant and adult protocols)
- Choking (child, infant and adult protocols)
- Asthma and diabetic emergencies
- Paediatric First Aid
- Head injuries
- Seizures
- Bleeding
- Burns
- Sprains, strains and fractures
- Poisoning, bites and stings
- Foreign objects
- Childhood conditions (e.g. measles, meningitis and croup).