Professional Resuscitation Services

General Course Information

Professional Resuscitation Services (PRS) delivers the complete spectrum of training courses in Emergency Care. This allows client organizations and students a one stop shop for all emergency care training including First Aid and ‘Pre-Hospital Emergency Care’ courses. PRS offers a continuum of personal and professional development in Emergency Care by way of the following training: All PRS CPR courses are aligned to the New Zealand Resuscitation Council guidelines.

Level 1 – Telephone CPR
Level 2 – Bystander CPR
Level 3 – Bystander Plus CPR for Health Professionals and Service Groups
Level 4 – Advanced training for Health Professionals, Dentists and Service Groups
Level 5 – Advanced Cardiac Life Support for General Practitioners and Health Professionals
Level 6 – Advanced Cardiac Life Support for General Practitioners, Dentists and Health Professionals
Level 7 – Medical Practitioners working in hospital
NZRC CORE courses

PRS offers the New Zealand Resuscitation Council Immediate and Advanced CORE Courses.

In addition to this PRS offer certification approved by a number of health professional groups:

  • Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners -PRS level 5 course is accredited by the RNZCGP and attracts CME points and meets the requirements for MOPS
  • New Zealand Dental Association – PRS levels 4 and 6 courses are accredited by the NZDA and therefore meet Professional Development requirements. PRS also offers NZRC CORE courses for Dentists offering IV sedation.
  • New Zealand Midwifery Council (NZMC) – PRS is an approved provider for resuscitation education for the NZMC. PRS level 4 is to the NZ Resuscitation Council guidelines and therefore meets Professional Development requirements
  • PRS offers workplace First Aid courses. A full range of First Aid and emergency care training is available to those who want to learn life saving skills.

Where applicable PRS will tailor courses to meet the client’s needs within guidelines of the New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC). Continuous review and further development of courses where required is of benefit to students when they return for their annual refresher training.

All PRS First Aid courses meet Health & Safety requirements of Worksafe NZ.

Specialist Courses

  • L3 – CPR for Service Groups and Health Professionals
  • L4 – Emergency Care for Health Professionals, Vaccinators, Dentists and Dental Assistants
  • L5 – Advanced Cardiac Life Support Health Professionals
  • L6 – Advanced Cardiac Life Support for Health Professionals and Dentists
  • L7 – Advanced Cardiac Life Support for General Practitioners
  • NZ Resuscitation Council Emergency Care Instructor (ECI) Certification and Revalidation
  • Further details on the courses can be obtained from Noel Easton on 021 500 769 or email to resustrainer@gmail.com

NZRC CORE Courses

NZRC CORE Immediate Responder

Saturday 23rd March 2019
Saturday 6th July 2019
Saturday 16th November 2019

St Columba Centre
40 Vermont St.
Ponsonby

To register for the CORE immediate course, click here.

Further details on the courses can be obtained from Noel Easton on 021 500 769 or email to resustrainer@gmail.com

PRS reserves the right to postpone/cancel courses as required.

NZRC CORE Immediate Responder

Saturday 16th February 2019 Cancelled, please choose another date
Saturday 1st June 2019 (N.B. Queens Birthday weekend)
Saturday 14th September 2019

Abilities training Centre
32 – 34 View Road, Glenfield
Southern Cross Hospital,
Glenfield (See map)

To register for the CORE immediate course, click here.

Further details on the courses can be obtained from Noel Easton on 021 500 769 or email to resustrainer@gmail.com

PRS reserves the right to postpone/cancel courses as required.

Course Dates

Central Auckland

Venue:
St Columba Centre
40 Vermont St.
Ponsonby

Courses start at 6pm on week days and 9.00am on Saturdays.

CPR Skills(L2/3), Immediate Responder(L4), Advanced Responder(L5-7) combined courses.
Maximum 15 per course (20 if all CPR Skills)

17th Oct 2018 Course Full – please choose another date
17th Nov 2018 Cancelled
12th Dec 2018 Course Full – please choose another date
30th Jan 2019
9th Mar 2019 Course Full – please choose another date
8th May 2019
26th Jun 2019
28th Aug 2019
5th Oct 2019
13th Nov 2019
4th Dec 2019

To register for the above combined Central Auckland course click HERE.

Further details on the courses can be obtained from Noel Easton on 021 500 769 or email to resustrainer@gmail.com

PRS reserves the right to postpone/cancel courses as required.

North Shore

Venue:
North Shore Hospital, Shea terrace Entrance, Whenua Pupuke
124 Shakespeare Rd,
Takapuna, Auckland 0620

Courses start at 6pm on week days and 9.00am on Saturdays.

CPR Skills(L2/3), Immediate Responder(L4), Advanced Responder(L5-7) combined courses.
Maximum 15 per course (20 if all CPR Skills)

19th Jan 2019 – Course cancelled
27th Feb 2019
23rd Apr 2019
5th Jun 2019
14th Aug 2019
25th Sep 2019
30th Oct 2019
7th Dec 2019

To register for the above combined North shore course click HERE.

Further details on the courses can be obtained from Noel Easton on 021 500 769 or email to resustrainer@gmail.com

PRS reserves the right to postpone/cancel courses as required.

Parking:
Parking is available outside of the hospital rounds at no costs. Please be aware that some parking restrictions do apply on the roads around the hospital grounds. If you choose to park within the hospital, parking concessions is available at $5 per course. Please see the course instructor to get your parking concession card. There is parking available in the main parking building that is 5minutes walk from the venue.
See map attached.

South Auckland

Venue:
St Peters Presbyterian Church,
7 Harrison Rd,
Ellerslie,
Auckland 1060

Courses start at 6pm on week days and 9.00am on Saturdays.

CPR Skills(L2/3), Immediate Responder(L4), Advanced Responder(L5-7) combined courses.
Maximum 15 per course (20 if all CPR Skills)

7th Feb 2019 – Course is full, please choose another date
3rd Apr 2019
22nd May 2019
13th Jul 2019
4th Sep 2019
16th Oct 2019
27th Nov 2019
11th Dec 2019

To register for the above combined South Auckland course click HERE.

Level 2 course. Maximum 20 per course

Further details on the courses can be obtained from Noel Easton on 021 500 769 or email to resustrainer@gmail.com

PRS reserves the right to postpone/cancel courses as required.

Cancellations

Client organisations will be charged 25% of the programme delivery fee for cancellations within 10 workings days of scheduled course date.

Client organisations will be charged 50% of the programme delivery fee for cancellations within 5 workings days of scheduled course date.

The full fee will be charged out where PRS Limited is notified of the cancellation less than 3 workings days of scheduled course commencement time.