CPR, BLS, First Aid Training, PALS and ACLS Classes in Reading, PA

Enjoy teaching? Learn to train others to perform American Heart Association CPR.

Learn how to teach American Heart Association CPR to others. This course is designed to educate candidates for CPR Instructor Certification.

Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in all BLS skills. Applicants will be prescreened for participation and following completion of the course, instructor candidates must be monitored when teaching in their first BLS course.

All course fees must be paid in full before books or materials are released. After registering for the cousre, we will order your course materials. When

The BLS instructor manual and core course material can be picked up in the Continuing Education office no less than one week prior to start of class and proof of completion turned in at time of class. All course fees must be paid in full before books or materials are released.

Those that successfully complete this course and receive BLS/HCP cards as a result of this training, are reminded that they must renew their cards every two years.

A current CPR card is required to take this course.

BLS Provider Renewal Course

The AHA’s BLS Provider Course reflects science and education from the 2015 Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC. It teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in both prehospital and in-facility environments, with a focus on high-quality CPR and team dynamics.

In the Instructor-led course, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam.

BLS Provider Skills Session

The BLS for Healthcare Providers Online Course teaches CPR skills for helping victims of all ages, including providing ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device with oxygen, and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED); and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction. Intended for licensed and non-licensed healthcare professionals. The course completion card for the online course is identical to the card for the classroom course.

There are THREE parts to the BLS Blended Online course:

Part 1 at your home or office: Online simulation and written test completion (0.5 to 2 hours)
Part 2 and 3 at one of our regularly scheduled classes: Manikin practice and skills testing (approximately 1-hr)

Upon completion, the participant should print their Certificate of Completion and bring it with them to give their instructor. The completion certificate must say HeartCode BLS. Students can purchase the HeartCode BLS Part 1, by Clicking Here

Please note that only AHA HeartCode Certificates will be accepted.

Heartcode First Aid Online Course

This course from the American Heart Association has been updated to reflect new science based on the 2010 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

Heartsaver First Aid Online is a self-directed course that uses interactive lessons and videos to teach you comprehensive first aid knowledge. This program is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs an AHA course completion card. You will learn:

First aid basics
Medical emergencies
Injury emergencies
Environmental emergencies

First Aid instruction includes bandaging, bleeding, wounds, choking, shock, seizure, fainting, broken bones, sprains, burns, bites, stings, poison, and temperature-related conditions, to name a few.

Once you begin the course, you’ll have access to the online lessons, videos, manuals and resources for 2 years! And you can start and stop the course at your convenience until you have finished it at your own pace.

Successful completion of the full Heartsaver First Aid Course includes three (3) parts:

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Part 1, Heartsaver First Aid online course
Part 2, a hands-on skills practice session with an authorized AHA Heartsaver Instructor within 60 days
Part 3, a hands-on skills test with an authorized AHA Heartsaver Instructor within 60 days

After you successfully complete all 3 parts, you will receive an AHA Heartsaver First Aid course completion card, valid for two years.

Purchase this course - $70.00

HeartCode Pediatric CPR/AED with First Aid

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Online Part 1 teaches child care providers and others to respond to and manage illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives. It covers the Four Steps of First Aid and pediatric first aid skills such as finding the problem, stopping bleeding, bandaging and using an Epinephrine pen, as well as child CPR AED and infant CPR. Optional modules in adult CPR AED, child mask, infant mask and Asthma Care Training for Child Care Providers are also available.

Purchase this course - $95.00

HeartSaver CPR/AED

This classroom course teaches basic CPR skills such as performing a head tilt-chin lift and giving compressions and breaths. The course provides training for anyone who wants to learn basic CPR and obtain a Heartsaver course completion card. This is a 3 hour course.

Adult CPR and AED use
Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
Modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR, including child and infant choking

HeartSaver CPR/AED with First Aid

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives.

Students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies. This course also teaches adult CPR and AED use. This course is a 4 hour course.

Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
Adult CPR and AED use
Environmental emergencies
First aid basics
Injury emergencies
Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
Medical emergencies
Modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR

HeartSaver CPR/AED with First Aid Skills Review

HeartSaver CPR/AED/FA Instructor Course

The American Heart Association Instructor course is designed to designed to prepare AHA instructors to disseminate the science, skills, and philosophy of resuscitation programs to participants enrolled in AHA courses. There is no question that instructors are the key element in the AHA training network.

The practice of medicine is considered to be both an art and a science. In a similar vein, AHA training involves both “heart” and science. A good AHA instructor is able to teach information and skills and to generate enthusiasm and enlist support of the AHA course goals and objectives, motivating participants to act in emergency situations. AHA instructors are the best tool the AHA has to fulfill its mission- to reduce disability and death caused by heart disease and stroke. The more skilled instructors the AHA ECC Programs have, the more participants will be trained in CPR and ECC. By increasing the number of bystanders prepared and willing to activate the EMS system and provide CPR, early defibrillation, and advanced life support, the AHA will be able to significantly reduce disability and death from heart attacks, cardiac arrest, and stroke.

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