CPR Renewal
Online Training
New NRP Class
Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers – Renewal Course
Course Overview
This 3 hour Basic Life Support Renewal Course focuses on healthcare providers who respond to cardiovascular and respiratory emergencies. The material covered includes the information and skills needed for adult, child, and infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the information needed to treat cardiac arrest with an automated external defibrillator (AED), the recognition and treatment of choking, and safety factors in training and actual rescue.
Target Audience
The participants in this renewal class are healthcare providers
Prerequisites
Before enrolling in this class the adult learner is required to conduct a self-assessment. The following are the requirements for entry into the course:
- You have had a previous professional CPR class for healthcare providers
- You are proficient in the basic techniques and progression of the CPR sequence for adults, children, and infants
- You are proficient in the relief of choking for adults, children, and infants and the proper use of an AED
- Healthcare providers who do not meet the prerequisites should enroll in the 5 hour BLS for Health Care Provider Initial Provider Class
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:
Cognitive Skills:
- Describe the steps of CPR (when to give breaths [including barrier devices], when to check for pulse, how to perform compressions at the proper depth and rate with complete chest recoil, and when to use an AED)
- Describe the signs and actions for severe airway obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim
- Describe the links in the chain of survival, including the importance of (activating the appropriate emergency response system, performing CPR, providing early defibrillation, and ensuring that arrival of early advanced care by activating the appropriate emergency response system)
- Describe the signs of 4 common life-threatening emergencies in adults (cardiac arrest, choking, stroke, heart attack)
Active skills:
- Activate the emergency response system
- Give breaths for adult, child, and infant victims using:
- Mouth-to-mouth 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 and AED for victims 1 yr of age or older
- Relieving choking in the responsive and unresponsive victim of any age
The course fee is $45 for 2.5 contact hours. Please bring your copy of the AHA BLS for Healthcare Providers Student Manual. If you do not have a copy you may purchase one from us at a cost of $12.00.
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