First Line Emergency Care

About the FLEC program

Make your reservations soon for a FLEC course  in 2010.

Remote Emergency Care

Advanced Remote Emergency Care

Maternity Emergency Care

Midwifery Upskilling 

Aboriginal Health Worker Training

 

The CRANAplus First Line Emergency Care Program is a result of a successful application for funding from the Australian Government, Department of Health & Ageing.

The First Line Emergency Care training program (FLEC) was developed by CRANAplus in 1998 as a pilot project to address the need for emergency training of nurses who are based in remote and very remote Australia. The program now offers a Remote Emergency Care course (REC) and a Maternity Emergency Care course (MEC) - aimed at non-midwives.

These evidence based courses are both 2 1/2 day, 20 hour intensive courses, conducted over a weekend, to remote or rural health practitioners. The FLEC courses have a strong hands-on approach with practical and multidisciplinary focus and are aimed at health paractitioners working in remote or rural environments.

The courses aim to overcome barriers to emergency education such as remoteness from training centres, inadequate telecommunication links and the difficulties RAN's experience when travelling to a metropolitan area for training. To achieve this, courses are delivered in a variety of locations throughout remote and rural Australia.

They focus on scenarios where there is likely to be little on the ground support. The courses are delivered by expert emergency and midwifery practitioners who largely volunteer their time.

Programs like this cannot be presented without the support of various people and organisations. Specific contributions have been acknowledged in the various modules. In addition our thanks go to: The College of Emergency Medicine for their expert advice and resources, Dubbo / Plains Division of General Practice for allowing the use of their Critical Pathways for Rural Emergencies.

 

Wendy Bowyer with Participant