Currently, we are only offering AHA BLS through the Heart-code online option.
The American Heart Association’s BLS for Healthcare Providers Online Part 1 Course, Web-based and accessible 24 hours a day, provides a flexible alternative to classroom training. Through case-based scenarios, interactive activities and videos, this course teaches the concepts of both single-rescuer and team basic life support.
Audience:
- Healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.
Course Content:
- Key changes in basic life support, reflecting new science from the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
- Critical concepts in high-quality CPR
- The American Heart Association Chain of Survival
- 1-rescuer CPR and AED for adults, children and infants
- 2-rescuer CPR and AED for adults, children and infants
- Differences among adult, child and infant rescue techniques
- Bag-mask techniques for adults, children and infants
- Rescue breathing for adults, children and infants
- Relief of choking for adults, children and infants
- CPR with an advanced airway
Course Completion:
- Part 1 must be paired with a hands-on skills practice and testing session (Parts 2 and 3) with an AHA BLS Instructor. Students who successfully complete Part 1 receive a certificate that allows them entrance into a skills practice and testing session. An AHA BLS for Healthcare Providers course completion card will be issued upon successful completion of all three parts.
There are 2 separate costs for the online portion:
- $36.00 for the Online portion through AHA website. This is done on your own prior to skills practice and evaluation.
- $30.00 for Practical & Skills Evaluation at Andrew County Ambulance District. At this time we are accepting Check or Cash as payment for the skills portion.
Practical & Skills Length: Approximately 2 Hours
- You must purchase Part 1 through the American Heart Association on your own and print and bring certificate when you practice and test.
- You must call 816.897.0549 or email edu@acadmail.org to schedule your skills evaluation after registration and online course are completed!
Make sure to print out your certificate and bring it with you when you test your skills!
