Healthcare Provider

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER COURSE
CURRICULUM OUTLINE

INSTRUCTION BY LECTURE, VIDEO AND STUDENT EVALUATION ON MANIKINS

The BLS Healthcare 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.

At the end of the BLS for Healthcare Providers Course students will be able to:

	Describe the steps of 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.
	Describe the signs and actions for severe airway obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim.
	Describe 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.

At the end of the course the student must be able to 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 >1 year of age.
	Relieving choking in the responsive and unresponsive victim of any age.

Anyone who needs to know how to perform CPR in a healthcare setting can take this course. This course focuses on students who provide health care to patients in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

	Course meets the minimum requirements for Healthcare Provider CPR with American Heart Association certification valid for two years.
	Course length is approximately 4 hours with a minimum score of 84% on a written exam.

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