BLS Provider Course Description
Safeguard CPR offers the BLS Provider course to help healthcare providers develop the knowledge to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve adult, child and infant choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.
Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Classroom Course is designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings or by those in a healthcare training program.
- Updated to reflect new science in the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR & ECC
- Teaches healthcare professionals how to perform high-quality CPR individually or as part of a team.
- Designed for healthcare providers who must have a card documenting successful completion of a CPR course
Course contents:
- Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
- Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival and apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants
- Describe the importance of early use of an AED and demonstrate its use
- Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
- Describe the importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
- Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
BLS Provider Course Completion Requirements
You will be using your BLS Provider Manual throughout the course.
- Pass the 1 and 2 Rescuer Adult BLS with AED Skills Test
- Pass the 2 Rescuer Child BLS Skills Test
- Pass the 1 and 2 Rescuer Infant BLS with AED Skills Test
- Pass the open-resource exam with a minimum score of 84%
- An open-resource exam allows students the ability to use available resources, such as the ECC Handbook and Provider Manual, posters, etc, to process information analytically but also to think independently and creatively with curriculum content.
Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Course Times
8:30am
10:30am
1:30pm
4:30pm
7:30pm