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Welcome to the Scouts' First Aid Team's web site.
We hope your visit to our site will be rewarded by gaining the information you want.
The News section (opposite) displays new developments, such as a new course becoming available, or an addition to our schedule of
first aid classes. As well, there are announcements about the status of our scheduled courses.
We therefore hope you will bookmark this site, and visit often to keep abreast of these developments.
We are adding to our schedule of classes progressively. We hope that this will help you in your planning, both in your personal
development goals and for your section.
If you wish to make any suggestions for the improvement of this site, please contact the Secretary (whose contacts are shown at the
foot of each page).
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The Scout Training Area
of St John Ambulance Australia (NSW), also known as the Scouts' First Aid Team, teaches first aid principally to the
members of Scouts Australia and Guides Australia, and provides first aid support to the activities of these organisations.
The Team also receives requests for first aid training from other like-minded volunteer groups, and is happy to welcome
such candidates into its first aid classes once the needs of the Scouts and Guides have been achieved.
The members of the Scouts' First Aid Team, as well as being members of St John Ambulance Australia (NSW), are Scout Leaders
or Guide Leaders. Further details of the Team's credentials and identity are shown as answers to Frequently Asked Questions on
the FAQs & Links page.
The Scouts' First Aid Team has representatives from Scouting's Sydney North Region, South Metropolitan Region and
Greater Western Sydney Region, and conducts classes in each of those Scouting Regions and elsewhere on request. This site
covers the first aid activities the Team conducts in all three Regions.
Classes are conducted at Sydney North Region's Barra Brui Scout Hall, off Hunter Avenue behind Barra Brui Oval, at St Ives,
at South Metropolitan Region's Activities Hall at 68 Restwell Street, Bankstown, and at various centres in Greater Western
Sydney Region.
The First Aid Team members also act as first aiders providing valuable support at many Scouting Region and Branch events
and at Guiding activities.
New team members are always welcome to join the Scouts' First Aid Team, whether to become Trainers or to assist as first
aiders at events.
First Aid Trainer
If you are interested in training to be a first aid trainer, contact the Chairman, John Crowley. (John's contacts are
displayed at the foot of the page. It is best to contact him by his mobile telephone.)
Training and requalifying at all the courses we offer is free of charge to First Aid Trainers.
First Aid Support Team (FAST)
The Team has created a First Aid Support Team (FAST) of members who have been willing to volunteer their time and effort
in first aid support of Scouting and Guiding activities. Some Venturers and Rovers use this service towards their award
scheme aspirations.
Training is provided.
If you are interested in joining, contact the Chairman, John Crowley. (John's contacts are displayed at the foot of the page.
It is best to contact him by his mobile telephone.)
Cub Scout badge work
We can come to your meeting if an instructor is available and cover the first aid requirements for the various boomerangs
and both levels of the first aid achievement badge, or run an introduction to first aid over a Saturday or Sunday afternoon
with appropriate activities to reinforce the message.
Scout Pioneer, Explorer and Adventurer First Aid
If convenient, we can come to your Troop meeting and run activities based on the various levels of the Scout Award Scheme.
However, having the Scouts attend one of our Emergency First Aid classes can result
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Scout Area First Aid
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Tuesday 6 December 2011:
The former 'Senior First Aid' courses have been renamed 'Apply First Aid' courses on this web site.
This implements the change by St John Ambulance which I spoke of a week ago.
Existing bookings for 'Senior First Aid' courses have been transferred to the equivalent 'Apply First Aid' courses. No further
action is required from candidates. The usual enrolment emails with further details will be sent about two or three weeks
before each course.
If you have saved references to our Senior First Aid pages in your browser, please update to the replacement Apply First Aid
references. For a while, those seeking the old Senior First Aid pages will be redirected to the replacement pages.
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Tuesday 29 November 2011:
St John Ambulance has decided to rename its one-day and two-day 'Senior First Aid' courses to 'Apply First Aid' courses.
For some time the National competency has been described 'HLTFA301B - Apply First Aid'.
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Thursday 20 October 2011:
Five members of the Scouts' First Aid Team recently visited the NSW Ambulance Aero-medical Retrieval
Services Base at Bankstown airport to inspect the extensive facilities at the base and learn about the operational procedures.
Special Casualty Access Team (SCAT) Paramedic Chris Wilkinson showed the team the headquarters and the helicopters. Each of
the helicopters costs about $19 million to purchase and fully set up with a range of medical and rescue equipment. The cost to
fly them is around $6,000 per hour, which covers fuel, medical supplies and drugs, rescue gear and the crew. The crew
consists of the pilot, navigator, doctor and a NSW Ambulance Paramedic. Fortunately the NSW Government pays for anyone using
this aerial service, with casualties billed only the standard vehicle ambulance cost, hopefully funded by each casualty's
ambulance insurance.
Based at Bankstown airport and other centres around NSW, including Lismore, Tamworth, Newcastle, Dubbo and Wollongong, and
Canberra in the ACT, the helicopter teams provide rescue and medical services for critically ill and injured people in less
accessible situations. They rescue people by winching them from cliff faces or water, those trapped in wilderness areas, and
from serious vehicle accidents where specialist on-scene medical care is required.
Should Scouts on their expeditions into remote areas have the misfortune to become seriously sick or injured, the NSW
Ambulance Helicopter Emergency Operations Service is ready to rescue and evacuate them to hospitals across the state.
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Sunday 25 September 2011:
Celebration! The Scouts' First Aid Team's web site is back on the air with improved functionality. Not very much is obvious,
but we expect you will find it easier to navigate, and further leaps forward are now possible.
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Friday 1 July 2011:
If you are late with an application and the closing date is fast approaching or has passed, send Rob
an email (to the address at the bottom left of this page) to tell him you wish to book for a course. Sometimes late applications
beyond the closing date can still be accepted, so it is worth enquiring.
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Thursday 14 April 2011:
At Dragon Skin next Easter – Friday 22 to Monday 25 April – at Belanglo State Forest, several members of the Scouts' First Aid Team
will again be providing First Aid support this year. Call in and say "G'day" at VOC2 First Aid and
say "G'day" to Anita at VOC3 First Aid.
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Friday 7 January 2011:
If you're looking for Senior First Aid Recertification, please go to
the Senior First Aid - One Day page.
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Tuesday 30 November 2010:
St John Ambulance Australia (NSW) has introduced some minor
changes to resuscitation guidelines
designed to further help people remember how to perform resuscitation in an emergency situation. (Note: Clicking on the link
opens a PDF file in a new window, download 872kB.)
On Saturday 27 November 2010, the Australian Resuscitation Council endorsed two changes to resuscitation based on recommendations
by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) following a recent review of the medical literature on resuscitation.
The first change emphasises the importance of calling an ambulance as soon as you are aware that you have a person who is not
responding. The second emphasises the importance of starting resuscitation with performing chest compressions. Both changes help to
make it easier for people to remember what they need to do in an emergency.
The changes will be implemented in St John Ambulance Australia First Aid courses from 1 January 2011.
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Monday 1 November 2010:
The schedule of First Aid courses in 2011 is here. Look in the pages associated with each of the course types for details.
The Advanced First Aid course is back in the Scouts' First Aid Team's repertoire in 2011. There's a
course in February and another in May – June 2011. Please see the
Advanced First Aid page for details.
We will be offering Emergency First Aid courses to Scouts and Guides in 2011. Please see the
Emergency First Aid page for details.
We will have more attractive fee arrangements for those who are already qualified in Senior First Aid
at a St John course (such as one of ours) and wish to extend their knowledge and skills with Remote Area First Aid, and for
others as yet unqualified in First Aid who attend our Senior and Remote Area First Aid courses in quick succession. See the
Bookings & Fees page.
We are introducing a Senior First Aid partially by e-Learning in 2011. This will be for those with some
First Aid knowledge but without necessarily having a current Senior First Aid qualification to achieve Senior First Aid by private
study and a one-day course and assessment session. Please see the
Senior First Aid - One Day page for details. We will still offer the usual two-day full
Senior First Aid course with all the material covered in greater depth.
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Saturday 19 June 2010:
A note about our Booking Procedure:
As shown on our Bookings & Fees page, booking for a class involves
sending a completed Booking Form AND paying the fee for the class. Many of our classes are so popular that more people express their
interest than we can accommodate in one class.
In such cases we consider the need for an extra parallel class, but this becomes awkward and stressful when we don't accurately know
peoples' intentions two to three weeks prior when we would need to engage Trainers and register the extra class with St John Ambulance.
So please tell us your intentions early. An email is so easy.
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Saturday 27 March 2010:
Happy Easter! Several members of the Scouts' First Aid Team will be supporting Dragon Skin again this year, this time at
Vulcan State Forest near Black Springs, south of Oberon. Call in and say "G'day" at VOC2 First Aid.
Our next First Aid classes are in May, after the school holidays. There's the Senior First Aid Recertification Evening Course
in Mondays 17 and 24 May – the friendliest way to renew your First Aid qualification – with many places still available, followed
by a two Sunday Senior First Aid Course on Sundays 23 and 30 May with strong bookings already, and then a Preliminary First Aid
(for Scouts) on Sunday 6 June, again with many places still available.
Scouts: How about booking for the Preliminary course on Sunday 6 June, and getting ready for some bushwalking over the cooler
months.
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Friday 29 January 2010:
Support our Team which gives First Aid support to Scouting and Guiding activities!
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Sunday 4 October 2009 marked the opening of the Scouts' First Aid Team's web site.
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