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Sports First Aid Essentials

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Gain the confidence and skills to respond quickly and effectively to injuries in a sports setting, helping keep athletes safe.

This introductory Sports First Aid Essentials course provides a basic overview of key Sports First Aid principles. It is designed to help you understand how to respond appropriately to injuries and medical emergencies that may occur during sporting activities. You’ll learn what actions to take and what to avoid while waiting for professional medical assistance. 

Online Sports First Aid Essentials

€35

Sports First Aid

In the world of sport, knowing how to respond quickly and effectively to an injury or medical emergency can mean the difference between recovery and long-term damage, or even life and death. 

Whether you’re a coach, player, volunteer, or spectator, having the skills to provide immediate first aid can make a crucial difference. Prompt action can help prevent thousands of serious outcomes each year across sporting activities in Ireland. 

Recognising the signs and symptoms of common sports-related injuries or medical conditions such as concussion, fractures, cardiac events, or heat exhaustion and knowing how to respond appropriately can help keep a casualty stable, prevent further harm, and may ultimately save a life. 

Please note that this is an awareness course only and does not replace hands-on, practical First Aid training. For those involved in regular sports events or team management, further practical training is strongly recommended. 

Course Aim

To provide learners with a foundational understanding of First Aid in a sporting environment, equipping them with the knowledge to recognise common emergencies and respond safely and effectively until professional help is available.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to: 

  • Explain the purpose of Sports First Aid. 
  • Describe the role and responsibilities of a Sports First Aider. 
  • Understand the limitations of an awareness-level course. 
  • Recognise the importance of acting quickly in a sporting emergency.

Assessment

The test your knowledge topic contains a number of multiple-choice questions which form a short assessment. A pass mark of 70% is required to successfully complete the course.

On successful completion of this programme, learners will gain a certificate of completion in Online Sports First Aid Essentials.

Course Instructions:

Please familiarise yourself with the course instructions below:

  1. An internet/WIFI connection is required – broadband wired or wireless. A 4G or 5G data signal is NOT suitable as signal coverage can drop and affect the recording of your course completion. We would also recommend you complete this course on a PC or laptop as there can be compatibility issues with some older models of smartphones.
  2. The course should be completed in one sitting. Should you launch the course, get distracted and return to it sometime later, please ensure you exit, log out and back in again and relaunch it. We advise this in case the system timed out while you stepped away, which would result in the system not recording your course completion.
  3. Please ensure you click all areas of the course when prompted to do so. The continue button to progress through to the next stage will only then become active.

Please note the following when purchasing the course:

  • The Online Sports First Aid Essentials course will take approximately 90 minutes to complete
  • The course must be completed in order to obtain the certificate of completion

To purchase this online course simply book and pay online, when this has been completed you will receive an email with access to a link to login and launch the course.

Enrolments are created manually so if you purchase the course during out of office hours you may not have access until the next working day.