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First Aid Training For Doctors Surgeries

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First Aid Training For Doctors Surgeries

First Aid Training For Doctors Surgeries

First Aid Training For Doctors Surgeries: In a busy doctor’s surgery, it’s easy to forget to renew your annual first aid training.   It is essential that you ensure that Basic Life Support certificate is up to date and that your resuscitation training  is up to scratch for your surgery’s needs.

Strange as it may sound, many practising GP’s  are unable to show the basic life support skills or rapid assessment of a patient with a potential spinal injury.  They do not know how to open an airway using basic skills, are unable to immobilise the spine and are not proficient in dealing with cardiac arrest.

It is therefore vital that all doctors should keep up to date with this basic training through regular first aid training courses.

To achieve this, a medical practice needs to find a first aid provider who can deliver the full range of HSE approved first aid courses as well as bespoke courses to suit your surgery’s specific needs.   You also need to make sure that the first aid training is suitable for both medical and non-medical staff.

You need to make sure that any first aid training courses you book for your staff are value for money and carried out by suitable qualified tutors to ensure the training is to a very high standard and up to date course content to meet with current legislation.

First Aid Training For Doctors Surgeries: CPR & AED

You will need to make sure that the course offers both CPR and AED training by experienced tutors. First aid training should be carried out on training AED’s and manikins for invaluable hands on experience.  The training course should be held on your site and take around 3 hours.    It’s also useful to see if they can include  a session on cardiac arrest drug therapy protocols.

You can usually book you first aid training course around times to suit your working pattern, including evenings and weekends.

Some of the key characteristics you should be looking for in your first aid training course include:
•    Basic life support and defibrillator training
•    Training pitched at an appropriate level for your staff (both clinical and non clinical)
•    A reasonable price
•    Appropriate use of training aids enabling everyone to get some hands on practice
•    Your trainer is HSE registered training provider
•    All courses are delivered in line with the requirements of the UK Resuscitation Council guidance.

First AId Training For Doctors Surgeries: There are a number of specialist firms that deliver first aid training courses geared specifically at the medical profession, but provide you find a good trainer who has the correct qualifications, you don’t need to go to the expense of a specialist first aid training course.