Aspirin, used in the prevention of heart attacks, is probably the most cost-effective drug available in medical practice and daily low-dose aspirin is now a standard item in the management of heart disease patients. There is evidence that aspirin, taken during a heart attack, can reduce the size of the clot causing the heart attack and may even cause the platelets in the clot to disperse. Research shows that the death rate can be reduced by 20-25%.
Diet and Nutrition Online Course Live
We have added an online course in Diet and Nutrition. The course aims are to promote awareness of the importance of diet and nutrition and to promote awareness of how to provide a balanced and nutritional diet. By the end of this session, candidates will be able to identify the changing needs of people, be aware of the legislative requirements and obligations, understand our body’s nutritional needs, understand what is needed to achieve a balanced diet, have a basic awareness of how to store and prepare food, how to identify and respond to individual needs, and be aware of the …
Teach Pet First Aid – Instructor Course Friday 8th January
Our next Pet First Aid Instructor course is on Friday 8th January. The course covers all that is required to deliver the ProTrainings Pet Fist Aid classroom courses including dog care, cat care, canine first aid and the new advances pet first aid when we launch it. You will have to complete some pre-study material before the course.
ProTrainings proudly sponsor Backcare
ProTrainings are sponsoring Backcare to support their work. BackCares aims to significantly reduce the burden of back pain by providing information and advice to all people and organisations affected by back pain. They fund scientific research into the causes, prevention and management of back pain.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS
Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS is thought to affect as many as one in ten people in the UK. Experts do not exactly know what causes it and what to exactly do to cure it. It affects people in different ways and to different degrees. The general symptoms are severe diarrhoea to constipation or sometimes both. They also suffer from pain, wind and bloating. Sufferers often have their own way of controlling it or living with it.
CPD locally with a ProTrainings approved instructor
CPD locally is what we will look at this week. The problem with CPD is that there are some courses that you have to complete which cannot be completed online. These can be a course like First Aid at Work. The HSE do not currently allow this course to be taught as a blended course so you have to attend a class based course. Classroom courses have other benefits and are better suited for different subjects or personalities. The key difference is that you can directly interact with the instructor and the rest of the group and ask questions to the …
CPD – 85 Ways to Complete Your CPD
CPD can be completed with 85 different video online courses with ProTrainings. In the 85 courses, there are courses in first aid, health & safety, data protection, social care skills, office skills to name a few. The courses work by registering online or contacting ProTrainings to set up a company dashboard. Once set up you log in and then start the training. The course comprises of short videos followed by knowledge review questions and a final test.
Health and Safety Statistics 2014/15 Released
Health & Safety statistics are now released by the HSE to show the latest Health & Safety statistics and the full details are available from their website. The basic data is as follows. Ill health 1.2 million people who worked during the last year were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their work, of which 0.5 million were new conditions that started during the year. A further 0.8 million former workers (who last worked over 12 months ago) were suffering from an illness which was caused or made worse by their past work. 2,538 …
2015 Resuscitation Updates Now Added
We have updated and added videos to all our first aid courses to meet the new 2015 resusciation guidelines. These include changes to the CPR videos and added videos on effective CPR, improving breaths and improving compressions. These are available to all students and if you are completing a course now, you will jump back to the new videos and then return to where you were to make sure you see the new videos. If you completed a classroom course, you will be able to access the videos from your free ProTrainings dashboard. There will be some more updates for …
Canine First Aid course added
Canine first aid has been added to expand the market on pet first aid, we have added another version that is just dogs. We added this as many instructors we after a course that was ideal to sell to just dog people. The course is very similar to the general pet course. We have added an online course to support the class course and your students will have access to the canine first aid videos once you register them as usual. We will soon be launching another version called Security Dog First Aid which is to meet the NASDU requirements for pet first …
New Updated 2015 Student Manuals
We have updated all first aid manuals to the latest 2015 guidelines and added more content to cover more subjects to support the courses. The non first aid manuals are also being updated and over half are now redesigned and updated. To download the manuals, for online, blended and classroom courses, login to your ProTrainings dashboard and you can download from there.
Resuscitation Council 2015 Changes Summary
Resuscitation Council 2015 recommendations we released last Thursday and we have studied the latest Resuscitation changes and are changing over to the new recommendations on our courses very soon. The recommendations on CPR change every five years. On the 15th October 2015, the European Resuscitation Council, ILCOR and UK Resuscitation Council announced the 2015 guidelines. Our training courses will shortly follow the ERC and UK 2015 recommendations to ensure the latest guidelines are including in our online and classroom courses. When the rules change, its not that the old rules were wrong, it’s that better advice is now available to improve …