Course Deliv­ery

The REC Course con­sists of the fol­low­ing components: 

• Online pre-course learn­ing and assess­ments that must be com­plet­ed one week before the course 
  • Remote Emer­gency Care Man­u­al and assess­ment — approx. 12 hours of study
  • Basic Life Sup­port read­ings and assess­ment — approx. 1 hour of study
• Atten­dance at a two and a half day face to face work­shop con­sist­ing of lec­tures, skill sta­tions and prac­ti­cal based scenarios 
• An on-course mul­ti­ple-choice quiz
• A Basic Life Sup­port clin­i­cal skills assessment
• An indi­vid­ual sce­nario based clin­i­cal skills assessment

If you are seek­ing RACGP con­tin­u­ing pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment points you must also, in addi­tion to the above, com­plete and sub­mit a rein­forc­ing activity.

Grad­u­ates of this course will be able to:

• Demon­strate prin­ci­ples of man­age­ment of the acute­ly ill and injured patient/​s in the remote and iso­lat­ed setting 
• Describe and imple­ment a sys­tem­at­ic patient assess­ment approach to the acute­ly ill or injured patient 
• Explain the dif­fer­ent require­ments of ill or injured patients through the life span includ­ing the unique dif­fer­ences in man­ag­ing pae­di­atric and obstet­ric patients 
• Demon­strate com­pe­tence in skills required to sup­port the find­ings of the sys­tem­at­ic assessment 
• Demon­strate knowl­edge and skills in the man­age­ment of air­way, breath­ing, cir­cu­la­tion and spinal immobilisation 
• Per­form basic life sup­port as per Aus­tralian Resus­ci­ta­tion Coun­cil guidelines. 

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion par­tic­i­pants will be awarded:

• A CRANAplus Remote Emer­gency Care Course cer­tifi­cate (Valid for two years)
• A CRANAplus Basic Life Sup­port cer­tifi­cate (Valid for one year)