Description

Duration: 1 Day

Certificate valid for 1 year

Course Overview

The Qualsafe Level 4 Award in Out of Hospital Adult Immediate Life Support (RQF) is a regulated and nationally recognised qualification for people who have a specific responsibility at work, or in voluntary and community activities, to provide out of hospital emergency care to patients requiring emergency and urgent care.

Careful consideration has been given to the structure of this qualification, making sure that learning is comprehensive and is relevant to those working as emergency care providers, ambulance support workers or associate ambulance practitioners, registered healthcare professionals and those in specialist roles within the emergency services and military.

Over one day, learners’ performance will be optimised to deal with a deteriorating patient, resuscitation attempts and related events. The qualification will develop their existing knowledge and skills in patient assessment, devising a working diagnosis and recognising deterioration and management. Learners’ existing skills will also be developed so that they work effectively in a team to resuscitate patients in medical or traumatic cardiac arrest, in the out of hospital/prehospital environment.

What’s Covered?

Scene management
Methods and procedures needed to assess and manage an incident
Managing a patient with life-threatening or non-life threatening illness and injury
Post incident procedures
Airway management

Immediate life support procedures, including:

• Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC)
• Patient handovers

Modifications required during cardiac arrest for:

• Third trimester pregnancy
• Drowning
• Tracheostomy and laryngectomy

Immediate life support treatment algorithm
End of life care
Using the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2)

Entry requirements
Learners must be at least 18 years of age at the start of the training.

This qualification is designed for people who have been trained in clinical skills (at/or above level E on the
PHEM framework) and factual and theoretical knowledge in broad contexts within a field of work. They have
a scope of practice and are guided by standard operating procedures, protocols, or systems of work but can
make decisions relating to patient care.

Learners must have successfully completed a Qualsafe Level 4 Certificate in First Response Emergency
Care (RQF) or higher qualification or clinical grade, e.g. registered Nurse, Paramedic or Allied Healthcare
Professional working in the out of hospital care/prehospital environment.