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Anaphylaxis Training For School Staff
Anaphylaxis is a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction that requires urgent medical treatment. It is common for people to experience anaphylaxis if they are exposed to certain food triggers or substances that are not otherwise tolerated (known as ‘allergens’). Allergy awareness training helps you recognise if you or someone you care about may be at risk of having anaphylaxis, and provides you with a range of preventative strategies for reducing your risk of exposure to allergens.
School staff completing anaphylaxis training Melbourne
As part of the National Regulations, schools must ensure that all school staff with authority to assist students with asthma or anaphylaxis, have current approved anaphylaxis and asthma management qualifications. This includes all staff in the classroom, office, library and playgroups or other areas where students may be at risk of having anaphylactic reactions while under their care, authority or supervision.
The first step to achieving these requirements is for principals to identify at least 2 school staff per campus or school who will be designated as school anaphylaxis supervisors. These staff may be a senior teacher, school nurse, first aider or other health and wellbeing staff at the school. They will then be responsible for undertaking competency checks on all school staff who have completed an online anaphylaxis training course and who have been issued with an adrenaline autoinjector device to use if they believe the person they are supervising is experiencing an anaphylactic reaction.
If you have been nominated by a school principal to undertake this role, you will need to complete an accredited short course that teaches you how to conduct these competency checks. Once you have successfully completed the course, you will be issued with a certificate which needs to be signed by the school anaphylaxis supervisor to indicate that you are competent in using an adrenaline autoinjector.
You will also need to undertake an additional short course that teaches you how to conduct competency checks on other school staff who have been issued with an adrenaline autoinjector. If you are a staff member who is required to be a school anaphylaxis supervisor, you will need to repeat this course and the adrenaline autoinjector competency assessment every two years.
The anaphylaxis e-training courses have been assessed and reapproved by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority, ACECQA. This means that the training complies with the National Quality Framework, which is the benchmark for educators in child and family services.
If You Need Anaphylaxis Training in Melbourne than Contact with Young Medical School