This qualification has been superseded by the HLT41120 – Certificate IV in Health Care. Paramedicine Online can help you to become an emergency out-of-hospital medic.
Entry requirements for the Certificate IV
This qualification has been superseded by the new and improved HLT41120 – Certificate IV in Health Care.
One of the many social and personal benefits of studying this qualification is that there is not much in your way from taking the first step to changing your life. and making your application to study and find out more about how you can do this training from home.
Paramedical study means you will have to work hard to learn the concepts of anatomy, biology, human body systems, a little bit of math, English and other concepts such as working with different cultures, being aware of your legal obligations, medical terminology and life-saving medical procedures. A big part of your job as a medic or paramedic is communication and empathy for others who need it the most.
If you have a reasonable command of English and Math and can read and write, you can apply to study this course.
This qualification has been approved by ASQA, (Australian Skills Quality Authority), training.gov.au, the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) and follows the criteria set down by the Australian Core Skills Foundation.
What to expect from your training
If you’re looking to develop an amazing and long career in out-of-hospital emergency health care , the new Certificate IV in Health Care is the qualification is a great place to start. This Nationally Recognised qualification covers health and emergency care in greater depth than Certificate III in Non-Emergency Transport; (superseded by the HLT31120 – Certificate III in Non-Emergency Patient Transport) and requires less study than the HLT51015 – Diploma in Paramedical Science. (superseded by the HLT51020 – Diploma of Emergency Health Care)
If you decide you want to go further and complete the diploma, you can always upgrade at a later stage. (This is a very popular option)
Online study, with face-to-face clinical workshops and work experience
Delivered online over a period of 12-18 months (can be completed sooner if full-time study is chosen), this qualification allows you to immerse yourself in paramedical study without having to change your current , or if you are currently working, it means you can keep on earning and work towards changing or upgrading your career.
It includes a 7 day clinical workshop in VIC (Melbourne area), NSW (Sydney Location), Western Australia (Perth) or the Gold Coast to cement your learning in a clinical environment.
Before attending the workshops, you must complete at least 110-11 units of competency online before you can attend these workshops. The workshops are a pivotal moment in your training, because it is here you get to meet and bond with other students just like you, sharing the same passion, interest and goals to help save lives and give something back to their community. At the workshops you’ll work in teams as well as independently to tackle many different scenarios you will encounter in the real world. The training is designed to be realistic and authentic as possible, including working outdoors in all weathers at different locations. You may find yourself attending to a patient who has fallen in a stream, carefully treating a patient (or two) trapped in a car, saving a toddler’s life and treating a patient who’s parachute malfunctioned and they have plummeted to the ground – yet survived.
Hands-On work experience?
This qualification also requires you to complete 80 hours of clinical work experience (field placement), which can be completed with your local event medic contractor at first aid/medical event companies. Whilst every effort is made to help you gain essential clinical placement, we do encourage you to also make your own enquiries and develop your network. The 80 hours clinical work experience will put you in direct contact with the public, where you will experience first-hand what it’s like to be the one person so many people depend on.
This invaluable experience will fill you with confidence and put the theory you have learned into practice. Event medic companies are great places to work. Being out in the public eye and dealing with unexpected incidents will help you build your social skills and allow you to become a masterful communicator.
Whilst completing the clinical placement, you’ll also become more aware of your surroundings and possess a heightened sense of situational awareness. This is where you’ll be able to multi-task and observe your patient’s body symptoms whilst being acutely aware of your environment and of course your own personal safety and the safety of your partner.
Work with our emergency response organisations
Paramedicine Online partners with organisations who provide medical emergency staff for events. They provide basic First Aid Responders through private medics, Paramedics and Advanced Care Paramedics.
Nationally Recognised Training
The nationally accredited HLT41115 – Certificate IV Health Care (superseded by the HLT41120 – Certificate IV in Health Care) will open up many doors for you within the out-of-hospital emergency health care sector.
Certificate IV in Health Care job opportunities
- First Responder (be on-site to administer first aid and life saving care)
- Basic Life Support Medic
- Private Hospital Transport officer
- Ambulance Officer
- Ambulance Volunteer
- Industrial Medic (mining, construction, manufacturing, oil & gas)
- Emergency Medical Dispatcher (Call Centre Operator) * additional training required
- Private Company Medic
Explore the current job opportunities for this qualification here on our website.
Begin working as soon as possible
If you have a current First Aid and CPR certificate you can find voluntary work as a medic at festivals, concerts, sporting and other events.
Learn essential skills needed to save lives in your community
- Entry level out-of-hospital emergency health care training course
- Study online from home – up to 18 months to complete this qualification
- Nationally accredited qualification and recognised by health care organisations
- No prerequisites – (Can read and write English) no matter what your current education background – apply now
- Flexible course payment options – affordability while you change your life and learn a new skill
Units of competency (new units in the HLT41120 – Certificate IV in Health Care)
BSBMED301 – Interpret and apply medical terminology appropriately
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to understand and respond to instructions; to carry out routine tasks and communicate with a range of internal/external clients in a medical environment; as well as use appropriate medical terminology.
- Respond appropriately to instructions which contain medical terminology
- Carry out routine tasks
- Use appropriate medical terminology in oral and written communication
HLTINF001 – Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to follow organisational infection prevention and control procedures, including implementing standard and transmission-based precautions and responding to infection risks.
- Follow standard and additional precautions for infection prevention and control
- Identify infection hazards and assess risks
- Follow procedures for managing risks associated with specific hazards
HLTAAP002 – Confirm Physical Health Status
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to obtain and interpret information about client health status and to check a client’s physical health. It requires a detailed knowledge of anatomy and physiology.
This unit applies to individuals working directly with clients and who assist in the provision of health care services. Some disciplines may be subject to state/territory regulatory determination regarding delegation and supervision.
- Obtain information about physical health status
- Check physical health status
- Identify variations from normal physical health status
HLTWHS002 – Follow Safe Work Practices for Direct Client Care
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required for a worker to participate in safe work practices to ensure their own health and safety, and that of others in work environments that involve caring directly for clients. It has a focus on maintaining safety of the worker, the people being supported and other community members.
- Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- Follow safe work practices for manual handling
- Follow safe work practices for infection control
- Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace
- Reflect on own safe work practices
HLTAMB012 – Communicate in Complex Situations to Support Health Care
This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to effectively communicate with patients, colleagues and health providers in complex situations using verbal and non-verbal interactions. It requires workers to address these significant challenges in the context of providing a health care service.
- Communicate with patients and/or colleagues
- Use effective communication techniques
- Convey and receive information using available modes of communication
- Promote a positive public profile
HLTAMB014 – Transport Non-Emergency Patients under Operational Conditions
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to load, unload and drive vehicles safely to transport non-emergency patients to and from a facility or service. It includes using communication equipment and checking vehicles and equipment in order to restock and remedy faults.
- Prepare and check vehicle and equipment
- Ensure faults in vehicle and equipment are remedied
- Convey and receive information using necessary modes of communication
- Load, unload and secure non-emergency patient and other specific personnel for transportation
- Drive vehicle
HLTAMB007 – Assess and Deliver Basic Clinical Care
This unit of competency describes the knowledge and skills required to conduct clinical assessment and deliver basic clinical care in a pre-hospital/out-of-hospital environment.
- Make initial incident and patient assessment
- Plan basic pre-hospital/out-of-hospital patient care
- Implement basic patient care procedures
- Monitor basic patient care and modify as required
- Handover patient to a healthcare facility
HLTWHS002 – Follow Safe Work Practices for Direct Client Care
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required for a worker to participate in safe work practices to ensure their own health and safety, and that of others in work environments that involve caring directly for clients. It has a focus on maintaining safety of the worker, the people being supported and other community members.
- Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- Follow safe work practices for manual handling
- Follow safe work practices for infection control
- Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace
- Reflect on own safe work practices
HLTAMB011 – Manage a routine non-emergency scene
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to manage routine non-emergency situations that are not anticipated to be life-threatening to ensure safety at the scene.
- Attend non-emergency scene
- Take appropriate measures to ensure safety at the scene
HLTAMB013 – Contribute to Managing the Scene of an Emergency
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to manage procedures, provide security and communicate with other services involved with patient care at the scene of an emergency. It describes skills required in emergency situations, which may involve coordination with and by other emergency services personnel.
- Assess the environment to identify real and potential hazards
- Communicate with those involved in the incident
- Control hazards
- Establish relationships and lines of communication with other services and network
- Evaluate the emergency scene environment
CHCCCS020 – Respond Effectively to Behaviours of Concern
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to respond effectively to behaviours of concern of people. Skills are associated with handling difficult incidents rather than managing ongoing behaviour difficulties.
- Identify behaviour and plan response
- Apply response
- Report and review incidents
CHCPRP003 – Reflect on and Improve Own Professional Practice
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to evaluate and enhance own practice through a process of reflection and ongoing professional development.
- Reflect on own practice
- Enhance own practice
- Facilitate ongoing professional development
BSBMGT401 – Show Leadership in the Workplace
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to lead teams and individuals by modelling high standards of conduct to reflect the organisation’s standards and values.
It applies to individuals who are making the transition from being a team member to taking responsibility for the work and performance of others and providing the first level of leadership within the organisation. These managers have a strong influence on the work culture, values and ethics of the teams they supervise.
- Model high standards of management performance and behaviour
- Enhance organisation’s image
- Make informed decisions
CHCLEG001 – Work legally and Ethically
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify and work within the legal and ethical frameworks that apply to an individual job role.
- Identify and respond to legal requirements
- Identify and meet ethical responsibilities
- Contribute to workplace improvements
CHCDIV001 – Work with diverse people
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work respectfully with people from diverse social and cultural groups and situations, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
- Reflect on own perspectives
- Appreciate diversity and inclusiveness, and their benefits
- Communicate with people from diverse backgrounds and situations
- Promote understanding across diverse groups
HLTWHS006 – Manage Personal Stressors in the Work Environment
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to maintain health and wellbeing by preventing and managing personal stress.
This unit applies to work in a range of health and community services settings, in particular work roles that operate in high stress situations and circumstances.
- Develop strategies to manage personal stress
- Implement stress management strategies
- Evaluate stress reducing strategies
What’s the difference between the Certificate IV and Diploma?
This one unit, stands between the two qualifications – although this is the cornerstone of your patient care in the pre-hospital/out-of-hospital environment. It includes conducting clinical assessments, delivering prioritising clinical care, delivering standard patient care, performing advanced life support procedures, implementing time-critical health care procedures and therapies, and monitoring patients based on their needs in accordance with established clinical practice guidelines.
HLTAMB008 – Assess and Deliver Standard Clinical Care
This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to
- Perform pre-hospital/out-of-hospital patient assessment
- Identify variations in physical health status
- Plan pre-hospital/out-of-hospital patient care
- Implement pre-hospital/out-of-hospital patient care procedures
- Monitor and evaluate pre-hospital/out-of-hospital patient care
- Hand over patient requiring pre-hospital/out-of-hospital patient care to receiving facility
There Are No Entry Requirements For This Course
Even though there are no entry restrictions to speak of. We expect you to be able to read and write English and be comfortable communicating to your fellow students and trainers; as well as being comfortable with the use of computers and navigating the internet.
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