Course Details

BLS(Basic Life Support)

The BLS Provider Manual contains all the information students need to successfully complete the BLS Course. This manual is designed for a single user, with text that is ideal for use as a reference tool before and after the BLS course.

The BLS Provider Manual includes the BLS Reference Card, which is also sold separately (product 20-1132).

This product has been updated with new science from the 2020 Guidelines for CPR and ECC and replaces the previous version (15-1010). If you are a student, please confirm with your training center that this is the appropriate product for your training.

Who should take this course?

This BLS course is a full course designed for those who work in the healthcare field, such as nurses or nursing students, dentists, pharmacists, and EMTs. Although anyone may take this course. Topics covered will be geared toward those in a healthcare environment and include situations for adults, children, and infants, which include the following:

Chain of survival
BLS for adults
The framework for CPR
High-Performance Rescue Teams
Main Components of CPR
Adult BLS Algorithm for Healthcare Providers

CPR techniques, including how to use a pocket mask and bag-mask device
2 rescuer BLS
Team dynamics
BLS for children and infants
AEDs are used for adults, children, and infants
Opioid treatment
Choking relief for adults, children, and infants

The BLS Course focuses on what you need to know to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. You will also learn how to respond to choking and other types of life-threatening emergencies.

After successfully completing the BLS Provider Course, you should be able to:

Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival.
Describe all the steps in the Chains of Survival.
Apply the BLS concepts of the Chains of Survival.
Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR.
Perform high-quality CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant.
Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED.
Provide effective ventilation by using a barrier device.
Describe the importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation.
Perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR.
Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult, a child, and an infant.

You will receive an American Heart Association certification valid for two years upon completing the course successfully.

Course Details

Cost: $75.00

Course Length: 4 Hours

Add E-Book $28.82

Heartsaver

The Heartsaver First Aid Student Workbook contains all the information a student needs to successfully complete the Heartsaver First Aid Course and is a required text for course training.

Designed for a single user, this text is an ideal reference tool before, during, and after the course. The workbook includes a bonus Heartsaver First Aid Reference Guide, also sold separately (AHA product 20- 1127).

This workbook is also available in eBook format (AHA product 20-3115).

This product has been updated to reflect the latest science and education from the 2020 Guidelines for CPR & ECC and replaces the previous version (15-1021).

The Heartsaver CPR AED course trains participants to give CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. It reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who should take this course?

The AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

What does this course teach?

Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
Recognize when someone needs CPR
Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups

Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
Perform high-quality CPR for a child
Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child
Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
Demonstrate how to help a choking infant.

You will receive an American Heart Association certification valid for two years upon completing the course successfully.

Cost: $95.00

Course Length: 2 Hours Online, 4 Hours Classroom

Includes e-book or physical book

Babysitter (Red Cross Babysitting class)

CPR and First Aid Certification:

The Babysitter's Training Participant Set provides an assortment of materials to better assist and prepare babysitters on the job. The Babysitter's Training Handbook is filled with information and resources useful for in-class and on the job. The Babysitter's Training Emergency Reference Guide is an easy-to-carry booklet that provides instructions to handle common emergencies such as bee stings and asthma attacks. Additional material is available on the Red Cross Learning Center for download.

The American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training Course is for participants who are 11-16 years old. This training course will highly regarded with parents of young children and know as a strong national training program. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care safely and responsibly for children and infants. They will be taught several modules: babysitting business skills, childcare skills of diapering, feeding children, bottle-feeding an infant, leadership skills (encouraging positive behavior and rewards). During the class, participants will learn and practice first aid skills, CPR, abdominal thrusts and the use of an AED.

You will receive an American Heart Association certification valid for two years upon completing the course successfully.

Cost: $120.00

Course Length: 6 Hours