Target

Essential Training for Nursing, Midwifery, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners, Registered Undergraduates of Nursing/Midwifery (RUSON/M), Patient Care Attendants/Orderly, Medical Officer, Allied Health Professional and all other relevant roles. 

Purpose

This knowledge and skill will assist you to improve outcomes for your cardiac arrest patients/clients.

Aim

This online course provides the knowledge to assist you to improve outcomes for your cardiac arrest patients/clients.

Learning Outcomes

This course will cover

• BLS flow chart (ANZCOR, 2021)
• Danger
• Response
• Send for help
• Airway
• Breathing
• CPR
• Defibrillation (AED)
• What is different in babies and children?
• What is different in pregnant women?
• Airway obstruction management

Assessment and Grading

Basic Life Support training is an essential requirement to be completed online annually followed by a practical assessment every 2 years.

• Read the tutorial
• View the BLS video
• Complete the online assessment quiz, you must receive 100% to pass.
• A certificate will be made available once the assessment is completed and passed.
• Complete a practical assessment (Every 2 years)

Post completion of online training

Once you have successfully completed the online modules, you will be required to contact the manager, educator or your workplace assessor to complete a practical skills assessment or make a booking with CLEaRS via the course Basic Life Support (BLS) & AED Competency Assessment and Evidence

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

To obtain RPL, you need to provide and upload evidence of Prior Learning on below courses 

• Completion of Advanced Life Support (ALS) accredited by Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC)
• Completion of First Aid Training provided by registered Training Provider in Australia
• Completion of BLS training by Central Australia and Tennant Creek Regions - NT Health (previously known as CAHS) 

Please go to the Competency Assessment tab within this course for more information or access Basic Life Support (BLS) & AED Competency Assessment and Evidence

Technical requirements

Videos in this course contains sound / voice overs, with closed captions. You may prefer to access this course on a device that has sound enabled. For Participants using NTG computers, please NTG Service Desk  for technical advice or assistance 1800 000 254. For example, if you are having trouble hearing sound through your headphones.

How to enrol

Self-enrol

Use the 'Enrol me' button located at the bottom of this page. If you cannot see the 'Enrol me' button at the bottom of this page, please CLICK HERE and re-check for the 'Enrol me' button at the bottom of this page. Clicking on the 'Enrol me' button will enrol you in the course and take you to the course homepage.

NTG Staff – login with your NTG LAN details. These are the same details you use to log onto your work computer.

Non-NTG Staff – login with your MyLearning account details or apply for a MyLearning account using the Application form for non-departmental staff.

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