Advanced life support training

Healthy North Coast is committed to ensuring North Coast GPs and practice nurses maintain their skills and competency to perform advanced life support (ALS) procedures on a patient or member of the community as and when it’s needed. We recognise that ALS skills are used infrequently and therefore may diminish over time.

Healthy North Coast and Leanne Bryant (certified Australian Resuscitation Council instructor and registered nurse specialising in emergency nursing) have together, developed an in-situ ALS training opportunity, subsidised by the PHN program, which can be delivered within your practice. 

Delivered by Donna Hughes (Director of Nursing, Port Macquarie Ophthalmic Surgery) and Kellie Strahorn (Health Services Manager, NSW Health), the training is targeted to GPs and practice nurses who want to further their basic life support skills or to refresh their existing ALS skills.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are likely to visit an Aboriginal Medical Service in the event of a cardiac arrest or life-threatening situation. We recognise the importance of AMS’s having the skills to perform advanced life support and safely care for a patient prior to going to an acute care setting. This is why we are providing free, in-situ Advanced Life Support 1 training to AMS’s on the North Coast.

Details

When: Saturdays, 8am – 2:30pm (other days available on request)

Where: In situ, in your practice

Who: GPs, GPRs & practice nurses

CPD:  This training is accredited with RACGP & ACRRM as follows: 

RACGP: 8 CPD hours (4 x Educational Activity hours + 4 x Reviewing Performance hours) 

ACRRM: 8 CPD hours  

Registrars: this training has been used by GP registrars in the ALS requirement of their RACGP Fellowship

Cost: General Practices – $200 per person (including GST). Aboriginal Medical Services – Free of charge

Capacity: Minimum of 4 and maximum of 6 participants

Practice requirements:
A TV or presentation facility with space for 6 people. Training to take place when the practice is closed.

Time Duration Detail
Pre activities

Pre-reading: 2025 Advanced Life Support Manual, ALS Pre-Activity Quiz
8.00am 5mins Welcome, housekeeping and Acknowledgment of Country
8.05am 60mins Lecture: Recognition and prevention of cardiac arrest using the A – E approach
9.05am 10mins Non-technical factors / Communication
9.15am 30mins Skill station: Airway and breathing
9:45am 20mins Morning tea
10.05am 60mins Skill station: Assessment of DRSABC(D) – Scenarios
11.05am 60mins ALS Algorithm
12.05pm 50mins Skill Station: Compressions and Defibrillation Using AED
1pm 30mins Lunch
1.30pm 60mins ALS Practice Scenarios and Competency
2.30pm 10mins Post Course Written Test
2.40pm  5mins Evaluation and Debrief

Learning outcomes

  • Recognise and respond to deterioration using the ABCDE approach.
  • Explain the role of resuscitation members.
  • Perform high-quality chest compressions.
  • Perform safe and effective de
    fibrillation using an AED defibrillator
  • Demonstrate effective cardiac arrest management using the ALS algorithm.

Participants will learn about advanced life support, including the causes and prevention of cardiac arrest and the ALS algorithm. They will also undertake practical skills components of ALS, including airway and breathing, assessment of DRSABC(D), compressions and defibrillation using an automated external defibrillator. There will be a simulation of ALS scenarios so participants can contextualise their newly learned skills and deepen their application.

Donna and Kellie also take the opportunity to review the practice equipment and onsite ALS resources for quality improvement and stock control.

If you would like to book in or find out more, please complete the Expression of Interest and we will get back to you shortly. Alternatively, contact our Education Team

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Was just awesome and very practical, fitted into the GP operation well, whilst not being confronting. Leanne's approach to all of us was excellent and encouraging with education delivery. The application of the leaning was great with the replicated scenarios… This is a great education model for general practice. Well done!
Dr Murray SchofieldGeneral Practitioner, Port Macquarie
It was the best ALS training I have done. The trainer was excellent. She flowed with us and worked the sessions well around our knowledge base. The training was at a good pace and she gave helpful and non-judgemental feedback with each stage of the day. Allowing us to run scenarios within our practice setting added an element to the training I had not experienced with other ALS courses. Definitely value added. It is an exceptional use of education funding. It supports learning for all practice staff.
Dr Anne MurrayGeneral Practitioner, Port Macquarie
Really helpful to revise the ALS algorithm in real life scenarios in a safe setting. Excellent and knowledgeable facilitator Leanne, thank you so much for providing this training.
Anonymous
The ALS training was a great day, very relevant and informative. It was very well run and the trainer was really good. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to have this training, which has proved to be very valuable and greatly appreciated.
Anonymous
“Just wanted to say a huge thank you for organising the ALS training onsite. Leanne was brilliant and it was invaluable to have on our premises. It is a great initiative and feel it was the most relevant ALS course I have participated in.”
Dr Tonya CorenGeneral Practitioner, First Light Healthcare
"I have done many different ALS training events over many years but this one with Leanne Bryant was the most relevant to me as a regional GP. Leanne was a great presenter. She adapted the presentation to our team. She made it interesting and also relevant. We were never made to feel ignorant or silly. We were able to learn the necessary ALS for our own practice. As a result we will be making changes to our own emergency kit and making sure our staff are aware of the necessary equipment. It’s not often that we leave a teaching day feeling invigorated but in this case the teaching was excellent..."
Dr Carla CroakerToormina Medical Centre

GP registrars

This training currently fulfils your training requirements for your RACGP fellowship through GP Synergy. As ALS training requirements are updated frequently, GP registrars must check that Healthy North Coast’s Advanced Life Support training is listed on GPRIME for assurance that this course meets their fellowship’s ALS training criteria. Upon completion of the training, all participants will receive a certificate of completion and GPR’s are required to provide the certificate to GP Synergy as proof of completion. 

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