First Aid and Health - प्राथमिक उपचार और स्वास्थ्य

Programme /Class: Certificate

Year: First

Semester: Second

Co-Curricular Course

Course Title: First Aid and Health

Course outcomes:

Learn the skill needed to assess the ill or injured person.

· Learn the skills to provide CPR to infants, children and adults.

· Learn the skills to handle emergency child birth

· Learn the Basic sex education help young people navigate thorny questions responsibly and with confidence.

 · Learn the Basic sex education help youth to understand Sex is normal. It’s a deep, powerful instinct at the core of our survival as a species. Sexual desire is a healthy drive.

· Help to understand natural changes of adolescence

· Learn the skill to identify Mental Health status and Psychological First Aid

Credits: 2

Compulsory

Max. Marks: 25+75

Min. Passing Marks: 8+25

Unit

Topics

I

A. Basic First Aid

 · Aims of first aid & First aid and the law.

 · Dealing with an emergency, Resuscitation (basic CPR).

· Recovery position, Initial top to toe assessment.

· Hand washing and Hygiene

· Types and Content of a First aid Kit

 B. First AID Technique

· Dressings and Bandages.

 · Fast evacuation techniques (single rescuer).

 · Transport techniques.

C. First aid related with respiratory system

· Basics of Respiration.

· No breathing or difficult breathing, Drowning, Choking, Strangulation and hanging,

 · Swelling within the throat, Suffocation by smoke or gases and Asthma. D. First aid related with Heart, Blood and Circulation

· Basics of The heart and the blood circulation.

 · Chest discomfort, bleeding.

 D. First aid related with Wounds and Injuries

 · Type of wounds, Small cuts and abrasions

 · Head, Chest, Abdominal injuries

· Amputation, Crush injuries, Shock

E. First aid related with Bones, Joints Muscle related injuries

 · Basics of The skeleton, Joints and Muscles.

· Fractures (injuries to bones).

II

F. First aid related with Nervous system and Unconsciousness

· Basics of the nervous system.

· Unconsciousness, Stroke, Fits – convulsions – seizures, Epilepsy.

 G. First aid related with Gastrointestinal Tract

 · Basics of The gastrointestinal system.

 · Diarrhoea, Food poisoning.

 H. First aid related with Skin, Burns

· Basics of The skin.

· Burn wounds, Dry burns and scalds (burns from fire, heat and steam).

 · Electrical and Chemical burns, Sun burns, heat exhaustion and heatstroke.

· Frost bites (cold burns), Prevention of burns, Fever and Hypothermia.

 I. First aid related with Poisoning

· Poisoning by swallowing, Gases, Injection, Skin

 J. First aid related with Bites and Stings

· Animal bites, Snake bites, Insect stings and bites

 K. First aid related with Sense organs

 · Basic of Sense organ.

 · Foreign objects in the eye, ear, nose or skin.

· Swallowed foreign objects.

 L. Specific emergency satiation and disaster management

 · Emergencies at educational institutes and work

· Road and traffic accidents.

 · Emergencies in rural areas.

 · Disasters and multiple casualty accidents.

 · Triage.

M. Emergency Child birth

III

Basic Sex Education

 · Overview, ground rules, and a pre-test

 · Basics of Urinary system and Reproductive system.

· Male puberty — physical and emotional changes

· Female puberty — physical and emotional changes

· Male-female similarities and differences

· Sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and childbirth

· Facts, attitudes, and myths about LGBTQ+ issues and identities

· Birth control and abortion

· Sex without love — harassment, sexual abuse, and rape

 · Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

IV

Mental Health and Psychological First Aid

 · What is Mental Health First Aid?

· Mental Health Problems in the India

 · The Mental Health First Aid Action Plan

 · Understanding Depression and Anxiety Disorders

 · Crisis First Aid for Suicidal Behaviour & Depressive symptoms

· What is Non-Suicidal Self-Injury?

· Non-crisis First Aid for Depression and Anxiety

 · Crisis First Aid for Panic Attacks, Traumatic events

· Understanding Disorders in Which Psychosis may Occur

· Crisis First Aid for Acute Psychosis

· Understanding Substance Use Disorder

· Crisis First Aid for Overdose, Withdrawal

 · Using Mental Health First Aid