Basic Life Support Training
Start Date: 2027
Description:
This training provides individuals with basic skills necessary for resuscitation before the arrival of a doctor or healthcare team. In Nigeria – the project’s first location – Basic Life Support skills are grossly lacking. As a result, preventable deaths due to major or minor accidents, obstruction of the respiratory tract, or sudden onset of cardiac arrests are the norm as a result of general inability to act as effective bystanders who can deploy basic life support skills or perform resuscitation. Training will take the form of community-based education and targeted workshops with select audiences.
Format
- Community training: 1-3hr training on Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for children and adults
- Mass media campaigns and simple graphic step-by-step guides on BLS on strategically located billboards and posters
- Elementary and high school training sessions
- Target audience training: week-long intensive training on CPR/BLS for select individuals who will then receive monthly stipends to train community members in different locations for a period of 6 months.
Expectations
- Trainees will identify and visit a minimum of 3 locations every week to provide training on CPR/BLS to organizations, including church groups, schools, clubs etc
- Provide recording of mock trials at the end of each training.
- Provide monthly reports on each location visited per week.
- Track, collect, and upload all of the relevant data on a designated database
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