Anaphylaxis and BLS Training teaches learners how to recognise severe allergic reactions and understand essential emergency-response principles. It also covers CPR, AED awareness, choking and the recovery position. Therefore, it offers broad knowledge relevant to healthcare environments.
Overview of Anaphylaxis and BLS Training
Would you know what to do if someone became unresponsive or developed a life-threatening allergic reaction? This BLS Training combines basic life support and Anaphylaxis Training to help healthcare and care professionals develop essential emergency-response knowledge.
You will explore cardiac arrest recognition, CPR, AED awareness, choking and recovery-position principles alongside the recognition and management of anaphylaxis. The course also covers the role of adrenaline and everyday considerations for people at risk of severe allergic reactions. These topics closely reflect the actual curriculum of your course.
This Online BLS Training can help you:
- Recognise situations that may require urgent action.
- Understand the sequence and principles of BLS.
- Develop awareness of CPR and AED use.
- Recognise signs associated with anaphylaxis.
- Understand choking and recovery-position principles.
- Refresh emergency knowledge for healthcare environments.
Study flexibly online while developing knowledge that can support your CPD and complement workplace emergency training.
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Learning Outcomes
By completing this course, you should be able to:
- Identify signs associated with severe allergic reactions and anaphylaxis.
- Explain why anaphylaxis requires an urgent response.
- Describe the role of adrenaline in anaphylaxis management.
- Recognise an unresponsive person who may require BLS.
- Explain the sequence and principles of basic life support.
- Describe the principles of CPR and the role of an AED.
- Identify appropriate responses to a suspected choking emergency.
- Explain when the recovery position may be appropriate.
- Recognise the importance of clear communication and emergency escalation.
The course builds theoretical understanding. Practical BLS competence may require hands-on training and assessment depending on your role or employer.
Why Choose This Course?
Healthcare emergencies can happen without warning, so maintaining current emergency-response knowledge is valuable for people working around patients and service users.
This course offers:
- BLS + anaphylaxis in one programme – study two important emergency-care areas together.
- 100% online learning – train without attending scheduled classroom sessions.
- Flexible study – fit learning around shifts and other commitments.
- CPD-accredited learning – support your continuing professional development.
- Focused emergency topics – cover CPR, AED, choking, anaphylaxis and recovery-position principles.
- Healthcare-focused content – particularly relevant to patient-facing and care environments.
- Structured learning – progress through eight focused modules.
Your current course contains approximately 2 hours 16 minutes of learning, making it relatively manageable for busy healthcare and care workers.
Certificate of Achievement
- CPD Accredited Certificate
- Digital Certificate
- Professional Recognition
- CV and LinkedIn Enhancement
- Proof of Professional Skills
Who Is This Course For?
This Online BLS Training is particularly suitable for:
- Healthcare assistants and support workers
- Care-home and domiciliary care staff
- Nurses, nursing associates and student nurses
- Clinical and medical support staff
- Dental and pharmacy team members
- Community healthcare workers
- Existing healthcare professionals refreshing their knowledge
It may also benefit learners preparing to enter health or social care who want an introduction to emergency-response principles.
Career Opportunities in the UK
BLS Training and anaphylaxis awareness are relevant across many patient-facing health and care environments. For most learners, the strongest career value of this course is supporting CPD, refreshing emergency knowledge and complementing existing workplace training, rather than qualifying for a new profession.
Healthcare Assistant
Healthcare assistants support patients with personal care, observations and other clinical needs. Emergency awareness can help them recognise when a patient’s condition requires urgent escalation.
Typical UK salary: approximately £25,000–£27,000 per year.
Senior Care Worker
Senior care workers support individuals while also supervising or coordinating other care staff. BLS and anaphylaxis knowledge can complement wider responsibilities for safety and emergency procedures.
Typical UK salary: approximately £24,000–£29,000 per year.
Nursing Associate
Nursing associates provide care across hospital and community settings while working alongside registered nurses and other professionals.
Typical UK salary: approximately £26,000–£31,000 per year.
Additional approved education and professional requirements apply to nursing associate roles; this course provides supplementary emergency-care learning rather than the qualification required to enter the profession.
Emergency Care Assistant
Emergency care assistants work with ambulance teams, supporting patients during urgent and non-urgent situations. Emergency-response knowledge is particularly relevant to this environment.
Typical UK salary: approximately £26,000–£31,000 per year.
Additional employer training and role-specific requirements apply.
Ambulance Care Assistant
Ambulance care assistants transport patients between homes, hospitals and treatment centres. They monitor patient wellbeing and may need to escalate concerns when a patient’s condition changes.
Typical UK salary: approximately £25,000–£27,000 per year.
Registered Healthcare Professionals
Nurses, paramedics and other registered professionals may also study BLS and anaphylaxis as part of wider professional development and workplace training.
For these learners, this course can provide supplementary or refresher knowledge, but it does not replace profession-specific practical training, competency assessment, registration requirements or employer-mandated training.
Entry Requirements
- No formal academic qualifications are required.
- Suitable for beginners and existing healthcare workers.
- A basic understanding of written English is recommended.
- Access to an internet-connected device is required.
- An interest in healthcare, emergency response or patient safety is helpful.
This course is designed to make BLS Training and Anaphylaxis Training accessible online, helping learners strengthen emergency-response knowledge while supporting their wider healthcare learning and professional development.
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Frequently Asked Questions -
The course is particularly suitable for healthcare assistants, care workers, nursing staff, clinical support workers, healthcare students and other professionals who want to refresh or strengthen their emergency-response knowledge.
Yes. This Online BLS Training is delivered digitally, allowing you to study flexibly around work, shifts or other commitments.
The Anaphylaxis Training section explores severe allergic reactions, common signs and symptoms, emergency management principles, the role of adrenaline and important considerations when supporting someone at risk of anaphylaxis.
Yes. The course introduces CPR principles and explains the role of an automated external defibrillator (AED) within basic life support and emergency response.
Yes. The course is designed with healthcare and care environments in mind and can support CPD or refresher learning for healthcare professionals and support staff.
No. This online course develops theoretical knowledge and awareness. Where a job, employer or professional standard requires hands-on CPR/BLS competence, learners may also need practical training and competency assessment.
Yes. After successfully completing the course, learners can receive a CPD-accredited digital certificate as evidence of course completion and professional-development learning.
Course Curriculum
| Module 01: What Is Anaphylaxis? | |||
| What is Anaphylaxis | 00:16:00 | ||
| Module 02: Treatment for Anaphylaxis | |||
| Treatment for Anaphylaxis | 00:15:00 | ||
| Module 03: Everyday Management of Anaphylaxis | |||
| Everyday Management of Anaphylaxis | 00:15:00 | ||
| Module 04: An Introduction to Basic Life Support (BLS) | |||
| An Introduction to Basic Life Support (BLS) | 00:20:00 | ||
| Module 05: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) | |||
| Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) | 00:17:00 | ||
| Module 06: The Role of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) | |||
| The Role of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) | 00:17:00 | ||
| Module 07: Choking | |||
| Choking | 00:19:00 | ||
| Module 08: Recovery Position and First Aid Techniques | |||
| Recovery Position and First Aid Techniques | 00:17:00 | ||
| Assignment | |||
| Assignment – Anaphylaxis & BLS Training for Healthcare Professionals | 00:00:00 | ||
| Order Your Certificate | |||
| Order Your Certificate | 00:00:00 | ||
