BLS Instructors Course for Health Professionals

Description

The Basic Life Support Instructors course is for Health Care Professionals. This is a one day face to face course aimed at providing the attendee the knowledge and skills to teach and assess Basic Life Support within their workplace. On successful completion of the assessment criteria you will be certified to instruct and assessment other Health Care Professionals in Basic Life Support. Participant must be registered with APHRA. This course is not suitable for First Aid trainers. The course is not run though the VET/RTO system as it is designed for Health Professionals to use in their workplace.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the Principles of Adult Learning
• Adopt a structured approach to Teaching skills
• Conducting an Assessment and using assessment tools
• Providing Feedback
• Dealing with difficult candidates 

BLS skills covered in this course:

• Basic Life Support - Adults, Paediatrics, Infants
• Defibrillation (AED / SAED)
• Foriegn Body Airway Obstruction - management
• Airway suctioning and Oxygenation
• Orophaygeal Airway and Nasophaygeal Airway Insertion
• Bag-Valve-Mask & Pocket Mask ventilation
• Team approach to Resuscitation
• In-hospital Resuscitation Algorithm