IHF Basic Life Support (BLS)

This course is designed healthcare providers such as nurses, doctors, EMT's, dentists etc who require a certification in these skills.

Basic Life Support (BLS) is ideal for:
Participants who provider healthcasre to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in-hospital and out of hospital settings. These healthcare providers may include (but are not limited to) Physicians, Medical Students, General Practitioners, General & Phychiatric Clinical nurse managers and staff nurses, paramedica, emergency medical tehnicians, dentists, respiratory therapists, cardiac technicians, cardiac rehabilitation staff, physiotherapists, physical and occupational therapists, nursing students, care assistants and other Allied Healthcare Personnel.

• Adult & Paediatric CPR

• Use of Bag Masks

• Foreign Body Airway Obstruction

• Automated External Defibrillator

Part 1 - Online theory test

Part 2 - Practical

The course is approximately 6 hours in duration (3 hours online & 3 hours in classroom).

IHF Certificate which is valid for 2 years

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.