CPR AND BLS FOR ADULTS LEVEL 2 (VTQ)


Course Outline


This course covers Basic Life Support skills for Adult 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.


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 care. The course is also Skills for Care Endorsed and follows the requirements set out in the Resuscitation Council (UK) guidelines for adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) basic life support (BLS).


The course is valid for one year, complies with the latest ERC and UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines.


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.


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.

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4 Hour Course

Meets HSE Requirements

Certified CPD Statement

Delivered At Your Workplace

OR

Hosted By Fun First Aid

Occupations using this course



  • Firefighters
  • Nurses
  • Care Workers
  • Doctors
  • First Aiders
  • Medical workers
  • People needing basic CPR skills

Topics covered →


  • About first aid & The first aider
  • Fears of first aid
  • Scene safety
  • Calling for help
  • What3Words
  • Patient consent
  • Initial assessment / primary survey
  • Recovery position
  • Chain of survival
  • Call First/Call Fast
  • The heart / heart attack
  • Sudden Cardiac Arrest
  • Types of AED
  • CPR + AED

Topics covered


  • CPR Pregnant person
  • Agonal breathing
  • CPR & Seizures
  • Mouth to nose breaths
  • Compression only CPR
  • Child CPR
  • CPR & COVID
  • Drowning
  • Infant CPR
  • Choking
  • The heart
  • Understanding defibrillation
  • AED
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