BLS CPR for Healthcare Providers

BLS CPR for Healthcare Providers

The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers course is designed to prepare a wide variety of healthcare professionals. Students will gain the ability to recognize life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use the AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner. The intended audience for the BLS CPR for Healthcare Providers course are those who provide direct patient care in a wide variety of settings.

Audience:

This course is for 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. Some examples of careers that would benefit from this level of CPR are: EMT, CNA, Doctors, Dentists, Dental Assistants, Firefighters, Corrections Officers and more.

Course Content:

• Key changes in basic life support, reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
• Critical concepts of high-quality CPR
• The American Heart Association Chain of Survival
• 1-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant
• 2-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant
• Differences between adult, child and infant rescue techniques
• Bag-mask techniques for adult, child and infant
• Rescue breathing for adult, child and infant
• Relief of choking for adult, child and infant
• CPR with an advanced airway*

* This is an introduction to the compression/ventilation rate and ratio for a patient who has an advanced airway in place.
Upcoming classes will be held at the following campuses: