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 have together, developed an in-situ ALS training opportunity, subsidised by the PHN program, which can be delivered within your practice. Leanne Bryant is a certified Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) instructor and a local registered nurse specialising in emergency nursing. The training is targeted to GPs and practice nurses who want to further their basic life support skills or refresh their existing ALS skills.  

Details

When: Saturdays, 8am – 3:15pm (other days available on request)

Where: In situ, in your practice

Who: GP’s, GPR’s & practice nurses

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

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

ACRRM: 8 CPD hours  

Cost: $200 per person (including GST)

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: 2023 Advanced Life Support Manual

ALS Pre-Activity Quiz

8.00am

10mins

Welcome, housekeeping and Acknowledgment to Country

8.10am

60mins

Lecture: Recognition and prevention of cardiac arrest using the A – E approach

9.10am

5mins

ALS & COVID

9.15am

60mins

ALS algorithm>

10.15am

15mins

Morning tea

10.30am

45mins

Skill station: Airway and breathing

11.15am

60mins

Skill station: Compressions and defibrillation using AED

12.15pm

60mins

Skill station: Assessment of DRSABC(D) – scenarios

1.15pm

30mins

Lunch

1.45pm

60mins

ALS practice scenarios and competency

2.45pm

15mins

Post course written test

3.00pm

15mins

Evaluation and debrief

3.15pm

 

End of training

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 defibrillation 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.

Leanne also takes 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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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.