Overview
Effective pain management is a critical part of emergency care. This nationally recognised course equips participants with the skills and knowledge to assess, monitor, and provide pain relief to patients in emergency and pre-hospital environments in line with workplace procedures and clinical governance requirements.
Participants learn how to identify pain indicators, apply appropriate pain management strategies, monitor patient responses, and maintain accurate documentation while ensuring patient safety and comfort.
Pain is often one of the first indicators of injury or illness. Managing it effectively not only improves patient comfort but can also support better assessment, treatment, and patient outcomes.
This course builds the confidence to provide appropriate, safe, and effective pain management as part of a broader emergency response.
This course is suitable for:
Emergency response personnel
Industrial medics and workplace medical teams
Volunteer ambulance and patient transport personnel
Workers required to provide patient care in pre-hospital environments
Learning outcomes
The course covers the following topics:
- Identifying a casualty’s need for pain relief
- Contraindications and precautions for use of analgesic drugs
- Dosage requirements
- Storage requirements of analgesic drugs
- Procedures for correct drug retrieval
- Medication preparation and completion of documentation
- Casualty consent and instruction
- Medication administration and monitoring processes
- Casualty handover procedures
- Safe disposal processes
Entry Requirements
Participants must:
- Provide photo I.D on entry
- Unless exempt, provide a verifiable USI number
- Be physically fit and healthy with capacity to perform manual tasks
- Be able to read, write, communicate orally, and understand and interpret complex information and situations
- Interact with others and work under pressure
- Dress appropriately i.e., long sleeve, long pants or overalls, safety boots/closed in shoes, safety glasses
Please ensure you read our Student Handbook for further information on our policies, procedures, terms, and program conditions.
SDS is committed to identifying and supporting the language, literacy, numeracy and digital (LLND) needs of all learners. Where required, SDS may conduct an LLND assessment prior to training to determine whether any additional support or reasonable adjustment is needed.
Participants are encouraged to advise the training team at any time if they believe they may require learning support so appropriate arrangements can be made.
Delivery method
This course is delivered over one (1) day and consists of classroom-based theory learning with practical based activities.
Assessments
Assessment includes written and/or multiple-choice knowledge assessment and practical based skills assessments.
Completion
On successful completion participants will receive a statement of attainment for:
- PUAEME008 Provide pain management
Skills maintenance
To ensure your skills and knowledge are maintained it is critical you undertake regular skills maintenance training. Where there is no licence or legislated expiry the industry standard for skills maintenance is every two (2) years.
