FAQ Level 4 Diploma for Associate Ambulance Practitioners

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation and guidelines for handling and safe storage of medical gases.
• Understand guidelines for the use oxygen therapy.
• Administer oxygen therapy.
• Understand guidelines for the use of analgesic gas.
• Administer Analgesic gas.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the current legislation and agreed ways of working for the administration of medicines.
• Understand own role in the administration of medication.
• Understand the requirements and procedures for the administration of medication.
• Understand the requirements and safety procedures for ensuring patient safety.
• Administer medication.
• Produce healthcare records.
• Understand the basic principles of Pharmacology.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand structures of the major systems of the Human Body.
• Understand the functions of the major systems of the human body.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines, agreed ways of working for undertaking patient assessment and examination across the age ranges.
• Understand procedures of patient assessment and examination across the age ranges.
• Carry out patient assessment and examination
• Recognise deviations from expected patient physiology.
• Manage patient identifiable information.
• Acquire electrocardiograms (ECG).

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the causes of infection.
• Understand the transmission of infection.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of good waste management practice in the prevention of the spread of infection.
• Understand how to maintain a clean environment to prevent the spread of infection.
• Understand the principles and steps of the decontamination process.
• Understand how to safely handle sharps.
• Understand how to safely handle laundry.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the use of electronic communication systems and devices.
• Operate electronic communication systems and devices.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation and agreed ways of working in duty of care and candour in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand how duty of care and candour contributes to safe practice.
• Understand how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care and candour.
• Understand how to respond to complaints.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is required for competence in own work role.
• Reflect on own practice.
• Evaluate own performance.
• Achieve personal development plan.
• Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development.
• Promote and support actions to improve organisational effectiveness in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the need for continued personal and professional development.
• Maintain professional competence through the use of a continual personal and professional development portf

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current guidelines for extrication and light rescue.
• Understand factors that influence extrication.
• Use extrication equipment.
• Remove a crash helmet safely.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety.
• Carry out own responsibilities for health and safety.
• Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness.
• Understand ways in which health and safety requirements impact the work of the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the monitoring and review of health and safety in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Handle hazardous substances and materials.
• Promote fire safety in the emergency and urgent care setting.
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What you'll be able to do

• Understand basic life support.
• Carry out life support.
• Use a defibrillator.
• Use adjuncts to support resuscitation.
• Understand the importance of post-resuscitation procedures.
• Understand special circumstances related to cardiopulmonary arrest.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislative and frameworks for Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Recovery (EPRR).
• Understand the importance of communication in EPRR.
• Understand the command and control at an incident.
• Understand the range of major incidents and interoperability with the other emergency services.
• Understand the range of Chemical, Biological , Radioactive, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) threats.
• Understand the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) requirements when attending a major, hostile, EPRR and CBRNE incident.
• Understand the Triage processes required when attending a major, hostile, EP

What you'll be able to do

• Understand management of head injuries.
• Manage head injury.
• Understand management of musculo-skeletal injuries.
• Manage musculo-skeletal injuries.
• Understand management of chest injuries.
• Manage chest injuries.
• Understand management of abdominal injuries.
• Manage abdominal injuries.
• Understand the management of other types of injuries.
• Manage other types of injuries.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Medical and Surgical Conditions.
• Manage medical and surgical conditions.
• Manage shock.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to recognise the seriously ill neonate, infant and child.
• Manage the seriously ill neonate, infant and child.
• Resuscitate a neonate.
• Resuscitate an infant and child.
• Understand Sudden Unexpected Death in Infants, Children and Adolescence (SUDICA).

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the physiology and assessment of pregnancy.
• Understand a range of conditions relating to obstetrics.
• Manage conditions relating to obstetrics.
• Understand the process of labour.
• Understand the complications of labour.
• Understand the physiology and assessment of pre-term and newborn.
• Understand the types and use of incubators.
• Understand a range of conditions relating to gynaecology.
• Understand how to manage conditions relating to gynaecology.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Wound Management.
• Manage wounds.
• Understand management of bleeding.
• Manage bleeding.
• Understand management of thermal injury.
• Manage thermal injury.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legislation relating to hazardous materials in the workplace.
• Understand how risk assessments contribute to the safe use of hazardous materials in the workplace.
• Understand the effects of hazardous materials to health.
• Understand the use of O-chlorobenzylidene malonontrite (CS) Spray and the precautions required.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation and agreed ways of working when moving and positioning individuals and objects.
• Understand anatomy, physiology and injuries in relation to moving and positioning individuals and objects.
• Minimise risk before moving and positioning individuals and objects.
• Prepare individuals and objects before moving and positioning.
• Move and position an individual and object.
• Understand when to seek advice from and/or involve others when moving and positioning an individual and object.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the structure of your own organisation and associated healthcare services.
• Understand the implications of legislative frameworks in own organisation and associated healthcare services.
• Understand working relationships in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand external influences on own organisation.
• Understand the individual rights underpinning delivery of emergency and urgent care.
• Understand the psychosocial influences on healthcare.
• Understand the value of health promotion in the emergency and urgent care setting.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care. Be able to maintain privacy and dignity of the individual in their care.
• Support an individual’s right to make choices.
• Support individuals in making choices about their care.
• Support active participation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the management of trauma.
• Understand Mechanisms associated with trauma.
• Understand the cost and occurrence of trauma injury.
• Understand the value of multi disciplinary working in Trauma Management.
• Understand the requirement for triage in a multiple casualty incident.
• Understand the importance of Reporting mechanisms when dealing with trauma.
• Understand the role of the Trauma Units and Networks.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to address the range of communication requirements in own role.
• Meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals.
• Improve communication systems.
• Meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals.
• Understand how to overcome barriers to communication.
• Overcome barriers to communication.
• Support the use of communication aids and technology.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legislation, national policies and agreed ways of working for environmental safety in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand risk assessment procedures for environmental safety in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the requirements of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand Road Safety in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand Air Safety in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand Rail Safety in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand Water Safety in the emergency and u

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of diversity, equality, inclusion and discrimination in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the ways in which a culture and system that promotes equality and values diversity can be developed.
• Understand own organisational complaints system.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand requirements for information governance in emergency and urgent care settings.
• Apply principles and practices relating to information governance in own role.
• Support others in information governance.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections.
• Understand legislation and policies relating to prevention and control of infections.
• Understand systems and procedures relating to the prevention and control of infections.
• Understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections.
• Understand the importance of using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the prevention and control of infections.
• Understand the importance of good personal hygiene in the prevention and control of infections.
• Use hand was

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the mental capacity legislation and Codes of Practice in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the principles of mental capacity in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Assess an individual’s mental capacity.
• Understand ‘restraint’ in line with agreed ways of working.
• Adapt communication techniques when caring for individuals who lack capacity.
• Understand the importance of using person centred approaches with individuals who lack capacity in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand how to signpost individuals and carers to appropria

What you'll be able to do

• Use person-centred values into practice.
• Implement person-centred thinking to deliver personalised services.
• Use person-centred thinking tools for on-going implementation of support plans.
• Provide practical assistance with updating and reviewing the patient’s care pathway plans.
• Take a person-centred approach to risk.
• Promote well-being and community membership.
• Understand how to acknowledge factors that may cause discomfort or distress.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation and policies of safeguarding and protection of individuals and groups from abuse and harm to self and others.
• Understand the importance and needs of child development.
• Understand the factors that add to the likelihood of abuse and harm to individuals and others.
• Understand how to recognise abuse and harm.
• Understand how to respond to suspected or alleged abuse and harm.
• Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse and harm of individuals and groups.
• Understand how to recognise and report unsafe practices.
• Understand the national ‘PREVENT’ strategy.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to assess and manage patient’s airway.
• Manage a patient’s airway.
• Manage a patient who with a Foreign Body Airway Obstruction (FBAO).
• Understand when to clean and replace equipment used during airway management.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current frameworks for supernumerary practice in own role.
• Understand what is required for competence in own role.
• Reflect on own practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation and agreed ways of working to protect the rights of individuals at the end of life.
• Understand factors affecting end of life care.
• Understand advance care planning in relation to end of life care.
• Provide support to individuals and key people during end of life care.
• Understand sensitive issues in end of life care in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the role of support services available to individuals and key people in relation to end of life care.
• Support the individual through the process of dying.
• Take action f

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the effects of bereavement on individuals.
• Support individuals who are involved in bereavement.
• Support individuals to express their loss.
• Support individuals to deal with procedures following a bereavement.
• Understand the role of specialist agencies in supporting individuals who are bereaved.
• Manage own feelings when providing support for individuals who are bereaved.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation, guidelines and agreed ways of working in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand pathophysiology and neurology of dementia.
• Understand key features of the theoretical models of dementia.
• Understand risk, impact of recognition and diagnosis of dementia in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand how dementia care must be underpinned by a person centred approaches.
• Understand the needs of a person with dementia who is distressed.
• Understand the needs of those with dementia experiencing pain.
• Understand effective communication to individuals with

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, codes of practice and agreed ways of working in Mental Health in the emergency & urgent care setting.
• Understand process for assessment and admission in mental health in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand mental health problems in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand suicide and suicide risk assessment in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand self-harm in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the Autonomic (Physical), Behavioural (Action) & Cognitive (Thoughts) (ABC) model of emotion in mental health.
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What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines and agreed ways of working in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand the purpose and functions of intravenous cannulation, intraosseous, infusion and advanced airway management in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Support a senior clinician in cannulation, intraosseous, infusion and Advanced Airway Management in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Monitor and report changes to condition or behaviour in cannulation, intraosseous, infusion and advanced airway management in line with agreed ways of work

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation and agreed ways of working in relation to individuals accessing healthcare services with learning disabilities.
• Understand what learning disability is.
• Understand the needs of a person with a learning disability in the emergency and urgent care setting.
• Adapt communication for people with learning disabilities in emergency and urgent care setting.
• Understand how to identify when an individual with learning disabilities may be at risk of harm.
• Understand resources available to support the well-being of people with learning disabilities.
• Understand the imp