Outdoor Emergency Care
Management
NZQA Unit Standard 424, 5 Credits, Version 8
Assess and manage an emergency care situation during an outdoor
recreation activity
Course Assignment
Task 1
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Unit Standard: 424
Level: 3 Credit: 5 Version: 8
PRE-TRIP EMERGENCY PLANNING FOR THE CHOSEN DISCIPLINE
The Candidate is:
TASK 1
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Briefly describe any further evidence required if applicable and any arrangements made for reassessment:
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I give permission for my work to be copied, if required for moderation.
Candidates Signature: _______________________________
Date: _________________
Assessors Name: _____________________________________________________________
Assessors Signature: ________________________________
Date: _________________
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
This Unit Standard is intended for people who wish, or are required to manage emergency care for a period of two
to twelve hours during an outdoor recreation activity.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain long-term management requirements for an emergency
care situation in an outdoor recreation environment, and assess and manage a patient’s condition long-term in an
outdoor recreation environment.
Prerequisite: 6400 (manage first aid in emergency situations, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills).
Instructors will site summary reporting form/ first aid certificate before the course starts.
All question and tasks will be related to the candidate’s discipline in the outdoor environment relevant to the
candidate’s profession or recreation.
The assessment tasks for this unit standard are in three parts. Some evidence for task 1 and 3 may be gathered
during task 2.
TASK 1 - Written Assignment
Written assignment must be completed before Task 2/3.
All answers must be in-line with the model answers of Triple One Care and/or
New Zealand Outdoor First Aid: New Zealand Mountain Safety Council Manual 2004.
You MUST answers all questions as fully as possible.
If you need assistance with the written component of the tasks please ask the instructor.
Your assessor may ask you questions after you have completed the assignment to confirm understanding of what
you have written or demonstrated.
TASK 2 - FIELD DEMONSTRATION OF PRACTICAL SKILLS
This is a scenario based practical assessment. You must complete all actions correctly in the assessment
checklists. Your instructor may require you to demonstrate specific first aid management for the given
environment/activity. The practical will take place in an outdoor recreation environment.
TASK 3 - SITUATION MANAGEMENT JUSTIFICATION
Situation management Justification: This task involves discussion and oral/written questions relating to the scenario
in TASK 2.
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TASK ONE: Written Assignment
Outline your chosen Outdoor Activity: _________________________________________
(Use this outdoor activity to answer all the questions in TASK 1)
Question 1. What are the commonly associated injuries and/or medical problems that occur
in your activity? (E.R 1.1)
a) Your answer must include two examples of common injuries associated with your
activity
Injury/Medical Problem One:
Injury/Medical Problem Two:
b) Two ways/methods where you can access this information?
o Method One:
o Method Two:
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Question 2. Explain a pre-trip emergency plan for your chosen activity (E.R 1.2)
Emergency Equipment:
a) List at least one item of specific technical emergency equipment for your activity:
b) If your activity is commercial, list as many organisational items required, i.e.
Submit RAM’s Form:
c) List 5 ways of managing warmth identified in your pre-trip emergency plan:
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First Aid Kit:
d) Identify at least 8 kit contents suitable to your specific activity:
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Communication, (Internal and External Plan):
Internal Plan (within in group)
e) What group information do you need to know as part of your emergency plan?
(list 4)
f) How do you establish clear roles within the group?
g) What are their roles?
External Plan (contacting the outside EMS)
h) List who you should contact:
i) List how you will contact them and why:
j) Your group is overdue needing help at a defined exit point with an injured party
member requiring evacuation.
What do you expect the response (actions) will be by your external contact person if:
a) They didn’t get your message concerning the delay?
b) They did get a message to you re the incident and delay?
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Question 3. Explain the initial response to an emergency care situation in the outdoor
recreation activity you have chosen (E.R 1.3)
Your explanation should include:
a) Your priority of actions (first aider).
b) How do you ensure the safety of the group?
c) How do you ensure the patient’s safety?
d) Explain how hazards are recognized in the outdoor environment?
e) Explain how controls are put in place to minimize hazards and harmful
environmental conditions?
f) Describe how you would establish a ‘safe’ area for group members in an
emergency situation?
g) How will you establish roles and chain of communication within the group?
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Question 4. Explain the need for group and resource management in an emergency care
situation in the outdoors. (E.R 1.4)
How would you establish and maintain the following:
a) Group morale
b)
Group resources
c) Explain how you would effectively communicate and delegate appropriate tasks to the
group?
Question 5. Describe the handling of fatalities (E.R 1.5)
a) Describe how you would handle a fatality in accordance with police requirements?
b) Identify two occasions where variations from this would be necessitated by
conditions, resources and safety considerations:
Variation One:
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Variation Two:
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c) Explain what you would do:
Question 6 Describe 3 non-ambulatory patient carry techniques you could use in your
chosen outdoor activity
(Techniques must be in accordance with current industry practice and first aid protocols)
Your descriptions must reference patient condition, resources and people available, terrain and
distance to be covered.
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Patient Carry Technique One, (Identify): ____________________
a) Patient Condition:
b) Resources and people available
c) Terrain and distance covered
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Patient Carry Technique Two, (Identify): ____________________
a) Patient Condition:
b) Resources and people available
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c) Terrain and distance covered
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Patient Carry Technique Three, (Identify): _____________________
a) Patient Condition:
b) Resources and people available
c) Terrain and distance covered
Question 7 In the event that outside help or emergency services needs to be called, explain
the information they would require and the actions you would expect them to take. (E.R 1.7)
Your answer should be in the context of your chosen activity, involve an emergency evacuation
and include how you would ensure that the information is passed on accurately and received.
a) Outline an emergency evacuation plan common to your chosen activity.
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b) What information will you need to pass on to the emergency services
(list at least 3)
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c) How will you ensure the information required is past on accurately and received
back accurately?
d) What actions would you expect the Emergency Services to take?
Question 8. Describe how the following factors affect a decision to evacuate a patient
and /or a group in an emergency situation. (ER 1.8)
a)
Number of Patients:
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b)
Patients condition:
c)
Number and condition of group:
d)
Location:
e)
Equipment:
f)
Weather and environmental conditions:
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