This course covers basic life support skills and includes skills for adults, children, and infants 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 course complies with the latest 2021 ERC and UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines and is aimed at Healthcare Professionals with a duty to respond.
This course includes the latest CPR and Coronavirus recommendations.
This version is for learners who have already completed BLS courses in the past and just need refreshing their skills annually. If you require our full BLS for healthcare professionals course, we have this with or without AED.
ProTrainings Basic Life Support courses have been designed to meet all the required learning outcomes and are aligned to the Skills for Health UK Core Skills Training Framework or UK-CSTF. This includes both level 2 adult and paediatric patient care. The course is also Skills for Care Endorsed and follows the requirements set out in the Resuscitation Council (UK) guidelines for adult and Paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) basic life support (BLS).
We also have a national network of instructors who can come to your workplace to deliver the training and to work within your time schedules.
This qualification and most of the other ProTrainings qualifications are Endorsed by TQUK to show our commitment to extra levels of compliance and quality assurance.
Companies, organisations or agencies are encouraged to contact us for group discounts and information about onsite training and how our system can be used to track and monitor your staff training.
This course comes with 2.0 hrs (3.0 class) of CPD, although the time to complete the course online may be less than this. Total course time includes 1 hour and 28 minutes of video training as well as knowledge reviews, final test, remedial help and reviewing downloaded material.
The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.
ProTrainings - COVID-19 Update on CPR from the UK Resus Council
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Adult CPR Flowchart
Adult CPR Flowchart handout/poster
BOC Oxygen kit leaflet for industry
BOC Oxygen kit leaflet for medical
CPR Flowchart handout. Infant and Child for Healthcare Professionals
CPR Flowchart handout. Infant and Child for Healthcare Professionals
CQC website link
CR2 AED user manual to learn more about this unit. For more information contact us.
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Child CPR Flowchart
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Child and Infant CPR Flowchart Handout
Clean hand techniques leaflet
Colour Coding in hospitals leaflet
Coronavirus (COVID-19) link to the NHS website
Decisions relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and not delivering CPR
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European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation: 2017 update
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What People are Saying
What people are saying about this course
“A very professional course from start to finish. Well explained and demonstrated by the lead instructor and his team, it was a real pleasure to have undergone my refresher training with ProTrainings.
I will highly recommend to my colleagues in the future if they are searching for a course provider!”
- Paul, Self Employed from Norfolk
“It was very good although this was my first time using this website, I would recommend this to my friends who also work for an agency. I liked the fact that I didn't have to go to a classroom with strangers.”
- Preeti, Adult Nurse Practitioner from Cambridgeshire
CPR/BLS for Healthcare Professionals Level 2 (VTQ) Annual Refresher at a Glance
