BLS Provider Course

The BLS Provider Course is designed to prepare a wide variety of healthcare professionals to recognize several life-threatening emergencies and to provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely, and effective manner. This course includes adult, child, and infant rescue skills in both the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings. Anyone who needs to know how to perform CPR in a healthcare setting can take this course. Course is taught by lecture, video and student participation.

Information Covered

Steps to CPR
When to start CPR
When to give breaths, including with barrier devices
When to check a pulse
How to give compressions at the proper depth and rate and with complete chest recoil
When to use an AED
The signs and actions for severe airway obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim
The links of the Chain of Survival
Activating the appropriate emergency response system
Performing CPR
Providing early defibrillation
Ensuring the arrival of early advanced care by activating 9-1-1
Describe the signs of 4 common life-threatening emergencies in adults
Cardiac Arrest
Choking
Stroke
Heart Attack

Learn and Demonstrate the Following Skills

Activating the emergency response system
Giving breaths for adult, child, and infant victims
Mouth-to-mouth ventilation
Mouth-to-mask ventilation
Bag-mask ventilation
Giving compressions for adult, child, and infant victims
Performing 1-and-2 rescuer CPR for adult, child, and infant victims
Using an AED for victims of all ages
Relieving choking in the responsive and unresponsive victim of any age

Course meets the minimum requirements for BLS Provider CPR with American Heart Association. Certification valid for two years. Course length is approximately 4 hours and requires a minimum score of 84% on a written exam to pass.