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Heartline Magazine January - March 2005
ECC NEWS - ECC training for QEH Nurses
Nurses at Barbados’ leading health care institution, the
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, are receiving a boost to their skills with training in
Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC), which will be provided by instructors from the
Heart Foundation of Barbados. The training, which will run from January to
September this year will be in two phases, and will see the training of 100
nurses in Basic Cardiac Life Support – Health Care Provider (BLS-HCP) and 7
nurses in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
In the first phase, instruction in BLS-HCP will begin in
February while the ACLS training will be held in June, during the international
ECC Conference.
Phase 2 will see the establishment of an Emergency Cardiac
Care (ECC) Training Centre at the QEH which will allow training in ECC to be
continued in house.
Courses will be held at the Heart Foundation of Barbados’
(HFOB) Headquarters on Jemmotts Lane. 8 to 12 Registered Nurses (R/Ns) or
Nursing Assistants (N/As) will be accommodated in each BLS-HCP course. The 7
participants in the ACLS course will be R/N’s only. Sessions will be held weekly
on Thursdays, full day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Course manuals will be provided by the HFOB. On completion
of the course, participants will receive certification from the American Heart
Association (AHA) through the HFOB.
Administrative responsibilities for the Training Centre at
the QEH will be undertaken by the Staff Development and Nursing Office of the
QEH, with instructors drawn from the QEH. Quality assurance and maintenance of
standards oversight will be by the HFOB. It is expected that the Centre will be
set up by January 2006.
Instructors for the Centre will be selected from those
trained in phase 1 and trained and monitored by HFOB in phase 2. These persons
become AHA certified instructors whose primary responsibility will be to the QEH
Training Centre. They may be required to teach at HFOB from time to time for
continuing monitoring and instructor updates.
Phase 1 of the project is being funded by the Peter Moores
and Arnott Cato Foundations.
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