All healthcare staff need to be able to identify critical illness and deliver basic life support (DH 2001). You will need to develop expert skills within this area. The RC (UK) have a website with...

All healthcare staff need to be able to identify critical illness and deliver basic life support (DH 2001).

You will need to develop expert skills within this area. The RC (UK) have a website with extensive information and easy to follow algorithms on serious emergencies such as choking and anaphylaxis through to cardiac arrest.

Visit their site and download the algorithms guiding current practice.

Practice drawing the electrical rhythms associated with cardiac arrest; add these to your portfolio.

www.Resus.org.uk