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 Leanne Bryant and Donna Hughes (Director of Nursing, Port Macquarie Ophthalmic Surgery), the training is targeted to GPs, GP Registrars and Registered 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, GP Registrars & Registered Practice Nurses 

Enrolled Practice Nurses are welcome to attend for their own interest or learning; however, please note that they will only receive a Certificate of Attendance for Basic Life Support.

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

RACGP: 11 CPD hours (5.5 x Educational Activity hours + 5.5 x Reviewing Performance hours) 

ACRRM: 11 CPD hours  

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

Cost: General Practices – $350 per person (including GST). Aboriginal Medical Services – Free of charge

Capacity: Minimum of 4 and maximum of 6 participants

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.

Leanne and Donna 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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