Group and Department Booking

Basic Life Support Provider (click here to see full description)

Cost: $50/learner

Duration: 4 hours 

Overview: The Basic Life Support Provider course is designed for healthcare providers only (e.g., EMTs, lifeguards, CNAs, other hospital employees, etc). Participants will become certified and proficient in recognizing when individuals are in cardiac arrest and in administering high-quality CPR, as well as first aid, to adults, children and infants.

Course Goals:

• Understand the purpose and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)

• Properly apply an AED to a patient and deliver a shock

• Identify and check for a pulse prior to the start of CPR

• Use a bag-valve-mask device for ventilation delivery

NO CERTIFICATION 

Put Your Paws to a Cause: Hands-only CPR and awareness-level training (click here to see information about hands-only CPR)

Cost: No cost to learners

Duration: 1hr 

Overview: This workshop does NOT OFFER CERTIFICATION (you can not use this for a job that requires CPR training). In this workshop, you'll learn about what a medical emergency can look like, calling emergency services, doing compression-only CPR on our feedback manikins, and see what an AED is/what it does.

Course Goals:

• Identify when to act in an emergency

• Understand what happens when emergency services are called, and how to communicate effetively

• Learn to perform high-quality chest compressions

These are available on a limited basis, email brooke_jewett@brown.edu to request a workshop or learn more.

If you are uncertain about what class is best for your group, please click the AHA page links in each category above.

If you are still unsure, email brooke_wyeth@brown.edu

If you are unsure about certification, we offer a no-cost option that can be found under the "Put Your Paws to a Cause" section.