Description
American Heart Association (AHA) Heartcode BLS online course (Part 1) is a requirement before attending a skills session with an instructor (Part 2). This course may be completed at your own pace.
The Part 2 Skills Session must be registered for separately here.
HeartCode® BLS Online is a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program that uses adaptive learning technology to allow learners to acquire and demonstrate Basic Life Support skills using a personalized learning path that adapts in real time to a learner’s performance. The program is designed for healthcare professionals who need Basic Life Support training for their clinical duties. Utilizing a variety of eLearning assets such as dramatizations, Cognitive Assessment Activities, illustrations, knowledge checks and interactive activities, this program teaches BLS knowledge and skills. This method of learning provides training consistency and adaptability to different learning styles. Students can work at their own pace applying their knowledge to real-time decision making. Debriefings and coaching are provided immediately after each knowledge check and each Cognitive Assessment Activity. Students who successfully complete the cognitive portion and the hands-on session (skills) will receive an AHA BLS Provider course completion card (eCard), valid for two years.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion, participants should be able to:
1. Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
2. Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
3. Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
4. Perform high-quality CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant
5. Perform chest compressions using correct hand placement at the correct rate and depth with chest recoil
6. Demonstrate effective breaths or ventilation
7. Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
8. Demonstrate how to use an AED
9. Perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
10. Describe how to relieve a foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult, a child, and an infant
11. Describe how to help someone in an opioid-associated emergency
12. Describe how to perform high-quality CPR on a pregnant person, including manual lateral uterine displacement, during maternal cardiac arrest
13. Describe the drowning Chain of Survival
Access codes will be emailed within 24 hours when orders are placed between 6:30am–4:30pm Mountain Time Monday–Friday. If order is placed on Friday after 4pm Mountain Time, code will be emailed Monday.
