The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers course equips healthcare professionals with essential skills to respond effectively to life-threatening medical emergencies. This course teaches you to recognize critical situations and provide high-quality CPR, operate an automated external defibrillator (AED), and respond to choking incidents. You will develop competency in CPR techniques for victims of all ages, learn to ventilate patients using barrier devices and supplemental oxygen, apply AED technology to adult and pediatric patients, and manage foreign body airway obstructions in both responsive and unresponsive victims.
Course Content Includes:
- Understanding the critical concepts of high-quality CPR and effective resuscitation
- Mastering the American Heart Association Chain of Survival and its application
- Learning one-rescuer CPR and AED techniques for adults, children, and infants
- Mastering two-rescuer CPR and AED techniques for adults, children, and infants
- Understanding the significant differences between adult, child, and infant rescue techniques
- Practicing bag-mask ventilation methods for adults, children, and infants
- Performing rescue breathing for adults, children, and infants
- Responding to choking emergencies in adults, children, and infants
- Administering CPR when an advanced airway has been established
- Understanding correct compression and ventilation rates and ratios when an advanced airway is in place
Certification and Completion:
- American Heart Association certification, valid for 2 years
- Digital completion card sent shortly after successful course completion
- Accreditation by the American Heart Association
Who Should Enroll:
This course is appropriate for current healthcare providers and those beginning their careers in healthcare fields. Whether you are renewing certification after years in the profession or preparing for your first day in healthcare training or practice, this course meets your needs.
Required Course Materials:
The American Heart Association requires that you obtain a course manual:
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Manual, additional cost of $32
This BLS course covers both initial certification and recertification requirements. Upon successful completion, you will receive an official AHA course completion card valid for 2 years from the date of completion.
School Notes: All of the courses that we have students sign up for through CourseHorse are skills sessions. Skills sessions require that the student complete an online testing portion through the American Heart Association, that online testing portion is a separate charge from our class fee for facilitating the skills session in the class room.
We offer full provider classes that are all done in class without the need to complete an online test before the class starts.
