Train the Trainer – Allergy and Anaphylaxis with Adrenaline Auto-Injector Competencies
Teach best practice in the importance of understanding allergies, allergens and managing risk for clients
Course overview
Train in Allergy and Anaphylaxis with Adrenaline Auto-Injector Competencies
If you have clients or service users who have allergies then you need to ensure your team are trained to understand how to manage risks and are signed off as competent to administer adrenaline via Epipen, Jext or Emerade. reactions?
Course content
Increasing your depth of knowledge with regards to anaphylaxis prevention, diagnosis and treatments in order to deliver this half day course to your team and be able to answer all of their questions with ease.
Anaphylaxis is an extreme and severe allergic reaction. It affects the entire body often within minutes of exposure to the allergen.
This practical training course is designed to accredit you to deliver training to improve awareness of anaphylaxis and the use of EpiPen and similar adrenaline autoinjectors, and the effective administration of adrenaline as an emergency response to an acute allergic reaction. The Trainer Training is delivered by a qualified professional with years of experience in the field.
The course will give participants an understanding of severe allergic reactions so that they know the difference between an intolerance and an allergy.
Participants will discover the variety of food and non-food sources of allergens that can cause anaphylaxis, understand the symptoms, treatments, effective prevention measures, what to do if faced with an anaphylaxis situation and how to use an auto-injector.
- What is an allergic reaction?
- What are the common causes?
- What is anaphylaxis?
- What causes anaphylaxis
- What symptoms should you look out for?
- Communication and casualty care
- Unconscious casualty management
- What is adrenal?
- What is an auto-injector?
- How to administer adrenaline (Emerade, Jext and EpiPen)
- Accident prevention and emergency planning
- Recording and reporting incidents
- Primary survey
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Who is this course designed for?
The Train the Trainer anaphylaxis and EpiPen training course is suitable for anyone who is involved in training their team in the importance of understanding allergies, and allergens and managing risk for clients. It is also for those who need to be aware of the diagnosis and treatment of anaphylactic reactions within any care environment, including care homes and clinics, nurseries, schools, colleges, and the general workplace and being able to sign the staff team off as competent to administer and adrenaline auto-injector such as Epipen
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Course duration
Train the Trainer – Allergy and Anaphylaxis with Adrenaline Auto-Injector Competencies is a comprehensive one-day course. During the course, please allow for a duration of 8 hours, which includes lunch and breaks.
Course outcome
At the end of the course, participants will have learned how to deliver training about allergic reactions including anaphylaxis, its causes, what to look out for and how to react.
Practical training on how to use an injector device for adrenaline administration using training injectors in the classroom environment and competency assess to have the confidence to act in a real emergency situation.
Ways to study
This course is delivered face to face at our offices in Stoke-0n-Trent or at your premises for up to 12 trainers.
Train the Trainer – Allergy and Anaphylaxis with Adrenaline Auto-Injector Competencies fees
£450 + VAT per person for our open courses.
£1950 for an in-house course for up to 8 trainers.
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