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Community CPR & First Aid Programs
- CPR for Family and Friends: This course is designed for families with children, scouts, grandparents, babysitters, the general public and mass CPR events.
- CPR in the Schools: This program is designed for children in middle school and high school. It covers adult, child and infant procedures.
- CPR Heartsaver: Day care workers, church /pre-school workers aquatic /amusement park workers and other lay people whose job requires certification. This course covers adult, child and infant procedures.
- Heartsaver AED: This community course covers the techniques of CPR and foreign body removal for adult patients and the safe and effective operation of an automated external defibrillator.
- Heartsaver First Aid Program: Combined content of the American Heart Asociation’s Heartsaver Adult CPR, AED, barrier devices, intervention for choking and the signs of heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest and foreign body airway obstruction. First Aid information includes triage and treatment for asthma, diabetic, allergic reactions, siezures, heart attack, stroke as well as bleeding and shock, burns, wounds, bodily injury, poisoning and other emergencies.
- Pediatric Heartsaver First Aid Program: Combined content including CPR AED & First Aid designed specifically for day care and nursery settings
Healthcare Professional Courses
For Healthcare professionals...
PEARS (Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization)This is a pediatric course designed to enhance the healthcare provider’s basic pediatric life support knowledge to prepare students to initiate and manage the first few minutes of a pediatric arrest or prevent the arrest of a pediatric victim in severe cardiopulmonary distress. It is video-based, instructor-led, traditional classroom course. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a PEARS Provider Course Completion Card. This is a 6 hour program. The audience for this course is any healthcare provider who might encounter pediatric patients in their profession. It is not intended for those staff credentialed for advanced pediatric skills who routinely provide pediatric care. They are referred to the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course.
- BCLS for Healthcare Providers: This Course is the required CPR certification course for most healthcare professionals.
- BCLS Instructor Recertification: The AHA requires recertification during the odd number years. Instructors must demonstrate knowledge and skills verification for card reissuance.
- BCLS Instructor: This is an AHA course designed to educate instructor candidates for CPR Instructor certification. Candidates must hold current BCLS Healthcare Provider card, complete the Core Instructor Program and will be required to reverify competency in BCLS skills.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support: This AHA advanced level program teaches through the use of case studies and the principals of cardiac resuscitation, including ECG rhythm interpretation, advanced airway management, and pharmacologic interventions in cardiac emergencies.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor Course: This course is for currently certified ACLS providers who have been recommended for intructor certification and wish to become instructors.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support: This course focuses on assessment and management of infants and children in cardiopulmonary crisis. Participants may be certified as providers following written and practical evaluations of competency.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support Instructor: This course is for currently certified PALS providers who have been recommended for instructor certification and who desire to teach PALS programs.
PEARS (Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization)This is a pediatric course designed to enhance the healthcare provider’s basic pediatric life support knowledge to prepare students to initiate and manage the first few minutes of a pediatric arrest or prevent the arrest of a pediatric victim in severe cardiopulmonary distress. It is video-based, instructor-led, traditional classroom course. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a PEARS Provider Course Completion Card. This is a 6 hour program. The audience for this course is any healthcare provider who might encounter pediatric patients in their profession. It is not intended for those staff credentialed for advanced pediatric skills who routinely provide pediatric care. They are referred to the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course.