FIFO MEDICAL ESSENTIALS

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This suite of face to face courses brings together the major qualification and essential skill requirements for Medical Officers, Registered and Enrolled Nurses, RANs, Registered Paramedics, Advanced Medics seeking to work, or upskill in either the Rural and Remote Clinic / Hospital / MPS setting, or the Resources Sector (including Marine and Offshore).

Our course is aimed at both beginning, and more advanced Medical, Nursing, Medic or Paramedic practitioners.

Sunshine Coast, QLD

23rd February – 6th March 2026

4th – 15th May 2026

13th – 24th July 2026

21st September – 2nd October 2026

2nd – 13th November 2026

Bledisloe Medical HQ

3rd Floor
135 Horton Parade
Maroochydore, Sunshine Coast, QLD 4558

Lift entrance opposite entrance to ANZ bank. Best parking and access from Cornmeal Parade side. Paid parking at the Park N Go – Lightening Lane – 2 minutes walk – $15 per day 

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Course

Save with Multiple Day Combinations!

$100 off

for 4 Days

$150 off

for 5 & 6 Days

$200 off

for 7 & 8 Days

ALS2 – Advanced Life Support 2 (including Basic Life Support)

  • Nationally Accredited with the RACGP & ACCRM to ARC Guidelines
  • This course is equivalent to the ARC ALS2 program.
  • Pre course module to be completed prior to the course

$895 –

1x Day

07:45am to 5:00pm

RAEC – Remote Area Emergency Care

Skills Stations and Scenarios 

  1. Packaging for Transfer / Retrieval
  2. Rural and Remote Sector overview (including International)
  3. Resources Sector overview
  4. Crisis Resource Management 
  5. The Sick Child
  6. Stop-Bleed, Splinting and Immobilisation
  7. ECG Rhythm Interpretation
  8. Basic wound closure (Suturing, Stapling, Gluing)
  9. Basic plaster casting
  10. Advanced Airway, including RSI Processes and NIV and a demo of Airway and Breathing procedures 
  11. Intravenous cannulation, Intraosseous insertion, USS Guided 
  12. Could it be Sepsis?

$1100 –

2x Days

07:45am to 5:00pm

DA – HLTPAT005 Collect Specimens Drugs of Abuse Testing Course

Nationally recognised workplace collection course

$600+GST –

1x Day

07:45am to 3:45pm

TRIAGE – Essential Triage & Clinical Assessment Course

Referencing the ATS and ETEK guidelines  

$600 –

1x Day

07:45am to 5:00pm

4WD – Operate & Maintain a Four-wheel drive Vehicle

IMPORTANT NOTES:

This course may be cancelled at short notice if unforeseen conditions dictate (eg weather or vehicle breakdown)

Minimum numbers: 2
Maximum numbers: 4

$695+GST –

1x Day

Times TBC

PALS – Paediatric Advanced Life Support

  • Biannual certification to ANZCOR and ARC guidelines
  • Pre course module to be completed prior to the course

$895 –

1x Day

07:45am to 5:00pm

OALS – Obstetric Advanced Life Support Course

  • Pre course module to be completed prior to the course

TOPICS COVERED:

  • Antenatal Assessment- how to assess a pregnant woman
  • Common Presentations in Pregnant Women
  • Managing Labour & Birth
  • Managing Obstetric Emergencies:
    • Breech
    • Shoulder Dystocia
    • Cord Prolapse
    • Eclampsia
    • Postpartum Haemorrhage
    • Maternal Collapse
  • Basic Neonatal Care post delivery

$895 –

1x Day

07:45am to 5:00pm

NNALS – Neonatal Advanced Life Support Course

  • Pre course module to be completed prior to the course

TOPICS COVERED

  • Transition to Extrauterine Life for Neonates
  • Care of the Neonate
  • Neonatal Resuscitation
    • Airway Management
    • Respiratory Support
    • UVC Insertion
    • Cardiac Arrest Algorithm & Drug Therapy
  • Management of Pre-term Neonates

$895 –

1x Day

07:45am to 5:00pm

Course Flyers & Program
Course program

Course Fees (Afterpay not available for amounts over $2000)

Variety of payment options available:

Please contact us if none of the payment methods work for you – and we can arrange invoices with split / modified due dates that mutually suit us both.

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Registration for Sunshine Coast

Course includes:

  • Catered morning tea and lunch
  • Coffee and Tea station all day, morning tea & lunch.
  • Please notify any dietary requirements

Your Trainers

Barry McCarthy RN RP

Managing Director

Barry, Registered Nurse / Registered Paramedic, the Director of Bledisloe Medical, is our Emergency & Critical Care specialist. He brings over 30 years of skills and knowledge from his background in state-based ED, retrieval, and nursing education and leadership roles in both Qld and New Zealand.

Now with his own education and training business, Barry brings all his skills, qualifications, and experience to our expanding range of courses both locally to the Sunshine Coast and throughout Australia and the South Pacific

Paul Chant RN

Advanced Medic & Instructor

Paul is our Resources Sector specialist and Director of Training. He brings his experience in 34 years of ED nursing and resources sectors, working and managing health clinics for companies including Oilsearch (PNG), Woodside, Rio Tinto and DOF Subsea.

In between our FIFO Medical Essentials courses Paul works with Aspen Medical and Corporate Protect Australia to provide contract nursing services to Santos, Shell and other resource companies.

Libby Bowell OAM RN

Director of Governance and Compliance

Libby Bowell OAM is a nurse of rare calibre. With 40+ years of nursing, she is a current NT RAN, ED Nurse, and has been a ED NUM and Director of Education for CRANA.

Additionally, she has worked and led over 30 international humanitarian missions with the Red Cross and is a recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal for her work in North Africa with Ebola. She has also been awarded an Order of Australia for her services to Nursing in Australia.

Libby joins us to pass on her tremendous depth of remote area nursing experience, knowledge, and insights, to nurses looking to work in rural and remote healthcare in our upcoming FIFO Medical Essential courses.

Russell Gooch RN

Advanced Life Support Instructor

Russell performs the important role with this company of keeping our Advanced Life Support Course up to date and meeting ever developing national and international standards

Russell qualified as a Registered Nurse in Victoria in 1983 then worked in a variety of country and city hospitals throughout Victoria before relocating to Queensland in 1996

Russell has worked in Nurse Manager and Nurse Unit Manager positions and has qualifications and over 25 years experience in ICU/CCU and Emergency Nursing settings  – specialising in clinical coordination, management, education and acute emergency retrieval positions.

Currently Russell holds the position of Clinical Nurse consultant withing the Public Health system in Queensland, responsible for procedure and process development and the creation and presentation of Basic and Advanced Life Support programs.

Rebecca Fitzsimmons RN RM

Instructor

Bec is our midwifery and neonatal specialist. 

She is an experienced ED nurse, midwife, university educator and flight nurse. She has worked in a variety of settings including tertiary hospitals, rural/remote communities and international humanitarian missions.

Her passion is to improve the care of women and babies especially in rural & remote settings.

Course Recognition and Certification

On successful completion you will be issued with:

ALS2 – Advanced Life Support 2 (16 CPD Hours – including pre course requirements)

 

RAEC – Remote Area Emergency Care (20 CPD Hours)

  • Certificate of Attendance – Remote Area Emergency Care and Management of Trauma and Medical Emergencies
  • Certificate of Competency – Basic and Advanced Clinical Skills and Knowledge

 

DA – Drug & Alcohol Testing (12 CPD Hours – including pre course requirements)

 

TRIAGE – Essential Triage & Clinical Assessment (12 CPD Hours)

  • Essential Triage Course

PALS – Paediatric Advanced Life Support (16 CPD Hours – including pre course requirements)

  • Nationally Recognised Certificate of Attainment – Paediatric Advanced Life Support

4WD – Operate & Maintain a Four-Wheel Drive Vehicle (8 CPD Hours)

OALS – Obstetric Advanced Life Support (16 CPD Hours – including pre course requirements)

  • Nationally Recognised Certificate of Attainment – Neonatal Advanced Life Support
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NNALS – Neonatal Advanced Life Support (16 CPD Hours – including pre course requirements)

  • Nationally Recognised Certificate of Attainment – Neonatal Advanced Life Support
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Accomodation

There are many options close to the Venue, check out the likes of wotif.com or booking.com for further information. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for advice.

Terms & Conditions

Can’t make the course? We understand! And can offer the following Terms and Options

We appreciate your interest in our services at Bledisloe Medical Pty Ltd. To ensure transparency and compliance with Australian Consumer Laws, we have established the following cancellation and refund policy:

Cancellation Policy:

  • Clients are entitled to cancel any scheduled services associated with their relevant Services Agreement at any time.

  • To cancel any scheduled services without incurring any penalties, clients must provide a minimum of two weeks’ written notice prior to the date of any scheduled services.

Refund Eligibility:

  • Clients may be eligible for a refund if they cancel their service booking in accordance with the cancellation policy outlined above.

  • Failure to provide the required two weeks’ written notice may result in the forfeiture of any refund entitlement.

Rescheduling Policy:

  • Clients who wish to reschedule their service booking may do so by providing a minimum of two weeks’ written notice prior to the scheduled service date.

  • Rescheduling requests made with the required notice will be accommodated without any penalties.

  • If a client reschedules their service booking, they will have the option to apply any payments made towards the rescheduled service or receive a full refund associated with the scheduled services, less any applicable surcharges.

Refund Process:

  • If a cancellation or rescheduling request is received with at least two weeks’ written notice, clients may be entitled to a full refund (less any surcharges) of any payments made for the scheduled services.

  • Refunds will be processed using the same method of payment used for the original purchase.

  • Refunds will be processed promptly, but please allow up to 7 business days for the refund to reflect in your account.

Non-Refundable Services:

  • Certain services may be deemed non-refundable, regardless of the cancellation or rescheduling notice period. These include services that have already been performed or services for which expenses have already been incurred on behalf of the client.

Non-refundable Deposits(Bookings made external to website ONLY):

  • If you are not booking through our website (e.g. via phone, email or in person) the following will apply:

    • We may require that clients pay a ten percent (10%) non-refundable deposit to secure their service booking.

    • Clients will not be entitled to any refund of the deposit if they change their mind or for any other reason.

    • The balance of the service fees will be payable within four (4) weeks prior to the scheduled service date.

    • Our cancellation and refund policy applies to the service fee only and does not apply to the non-refundable deposit.

Contact Us:

If you need to cancel or reschedule any scheduled services or have any questions about our policy, please contact us at barry@bledisloemedical.com.au

Please note that this cancellation and refund policy is in accordance with Australian Consumer Laws and does not affect your rights under those laws. We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time without prior notice. This cancellation and refund policy does not override any obligations a client may have under a Service Agreement entered between the client and us.