SCHEDULED COURSES

Basic Disaster Life Support^TM

7/16 –  Grand Island:  Heartland Events Center - 7:30 - 5:00pm

9/10 –  Omaha:  Scott Conference Center - 7:30 - 5:00pm

Advanced Disaster Life Support^TM

7/17-7/18 – Grand Island:  Heartland Events Center - 7:30 - 5:00pm

9/11-9/12 –  Omaha:  Scott Conference Center - 7:30 - 5:00pm

NDLS^TM Instructor

7/18 – Grand Island:  Heartland Events Center

9/12 –  Omaha:  Scott Conference Center

You're all about helping others.

Are you ready to help in a disaster?

The National Disaster Life Support^TM Program helps enhance your disaster response skills within an all-hazards framework and provide an opportunity to train with responders from multiple disciplines. This approach helps develop a common language and approach that fosters more effective response. The Center for Biopreparedness Education's courses incorporate activities and teaching techniques that help students retain material over time. 

NATIONAL Disaster Life Support COURSES

• Core Disaster Life Support^® (CDLS^®)– a 4-hour awareness level course constructed around the DISASTER™ paradigm

• Basic Disaster Life Support^TM (BDLS^®) – a 1-day course targeted to multiple disciplines in an effort to develop a commonality of approach and language that will improve the care and coordination of response

• Advanced Disaster Life Support^TM (ADLS^®) – a 2-day practicum of the principles learned in BDLS®. This hands on course includes skill stations in SALT Triage, Personal Protective Equipment and Decontamination, Disaster Skills, and Human Patient Simulator.

• NDLS^TM Instructor Course^® – a course that prepares individuals who have successfully completed the BDLS® and ADLS^® courses to become instructors of the NDLS^TM course series.

The Center for Biopreparedness Education is an accredited regional training center for the National Disaster Life Support Foundation courses. We sponsor these courses to meet our mission of enhancing preparedness skills and knowledge through affordable, needs-based training and to provide a well established disaster life support program to the region's disaster response community. The curriculum for these disaster life support courses was developed by a partnership of medical centers and organizations including the American Medical Association.