Health and Safety
Basic Life Support and AED For Healthcare Professionals Level 2 (VTQ)
Assessment type
Minimum duration
0.4 Day
Course delivery
Description
4hr Course 10am-2pm Learn the Essentials of Basic Life Support required to save a life. This course is tailored to those working in the care sector. This course covers Basic Life Support skills and includes skills for Adult, Child and Infant as well as healthcare variations on infant CPR. The course includes Safety, precautions, initial assessment, recovery position, CPR, compression-only CPR, CPR handover and choking. This is ideal for nurses, care workers or medical professionals needing annual updates to complete professional membership. AED training is also included in the course. Learning AED skills is becoming more important with the increase in the numbers of units in the community and workplace. They are easy to use with a little training and make a real difference in the chance of survival to someone in cardiac arrest. All our first aid courses fully meet the UK and European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021 as per the HSE requirements.