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  Basic Life Support (BLS) from the American Red Cross is designed for healthcare providers and public safety professionals and meets a variety of certification and licensing requirements.

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  • Ways to Train
  • Earn Your BLS Certificate
  • What is the difference between BLS vs. First Aid?
  • BLS vs. CPR: What is the difference?
  • Is healthcare provider CPR the same as BLS?
  • How do I download BLS certificate?
  • Is BLS the same as professional rescuer?
  • Is BLS and Aha the same thing?

  Our BLS curriculum includes all standard scientific learning objectives necessary in professional resuscitation courses, but also allows students to develop their critical thinking, teamwork, and clinical decision-making skills, and work on reflection and debriefing, which serves to strengthen their overall learning and work experience. In addition, our courses are modular and flexible, and offer medical directors, educators and Red Cross training partners the ability to tailor courses to their local protocols, and their students' specific needs.

  Ways to Train

  • In-Person Classes: Designed for those who learn best in a traditional classroom setting, class participants attend lecture and skills sessions with other students in a designated physical location.
  • Blended Learning: Created for those who need additional flexibility, our blended learning courses combine online presentations of "lecture" materials, with interactive scenarios that help improve clinical decision-making skills, and in-person skills sessions. Coursework is self-paced, can be personalized with our adaptive learning pre-assessments, and modular, so you can train on your schedule.

  Note: The American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) course is designed to train healthcare professionals including nurses, physicians, EMS professionals, and other healthcare and public safety personnel to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants. Content in this program is consistent with:

  • The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) 2021 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science with Treatment Recommendations
  • The American Red Cross Focused Updates and Guidelines 2020
  • The BLS program content was updated to include policy statements, evidence reviews and guidelines from: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), American College of Surgeons (ACS), American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care (AHA ECC), Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC), Obstetric Life Support™ (OBLSTM), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the American, College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) and Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC).

  Earn Your BLS Certificate

  Sign up for a BLS course – and gain the skills you need to help your community and reach your career goals. From CPR administration and AED usage to critical thinking and problem solving, whether you choose an in-person only class or prefer a blended (online and in person) approach to learning, our best-in-class instructors will help you understand how to use the latest techniques in basic life support. To join our program, simply find a class in your area and complete the registration process.

  FAQs

  What is the difference between BLS vs. First Aid?

  • Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundation of resuscitation training for healthcare professionals including nurses, physicians, EMS professionals, and other healthcare and public safety personnel. BLS program content includes single-and multiple-responder CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and AED (automatic external defibrillator) use, as well as how to care for a patient who has an obstructed airway (choking).
  • The Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED portfolio of courses has been the go-to program for thousands of businesses and training organizations for over a century. These programs are the foundation of safety training and our courses satisfy OSHA-mandated, workplace and other regulatory requirements.

  BLS vs. CPR: What is the difference?

  • When lives are on the line, it is critical that healthcare and professional responder staff have the skills and confidence to act in the moments that matter. Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) is meant for healthcare professionals and first responders. This comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum goes beyond a cardiac focus, making our programs unique and more robust. Red Cross BLS courses meet competency verification, education, credentialing and privileging requirements.
  • CPR classes are the foundation of workplace safety training, giving immediate responders a mastery of lifesaving techniques and the confidence to act when moments matter, be the cardiac emergency be at home, at school or in their community.

REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS

This class format is OSHA, Government, and Workplace Compliant with the same certification as an in-person classroom.

This course is also known as "BLS for Healthcare Providers"

 Steps for the class:

1. Register and choose a date and time for your live zoom hands-on skills portion.

2. We email you a link to complete the online HeartCode portion of this class.

3. We ship class supplies and a prepaid return label to you before the zoom meeting.

4. We connect over zoom to complete the hands-on skills portion of the class on the day and time you select below.

5. You will receive a full AHA BLS Provider certification valid for two years.

Location: Your Location - Home or Business via ZOOM Meeting

Price Includes: HeartCode BLS online portion, online student manual, Zoom skills check, and your AHA BLS card.

Who should take this course?

This BLS course is a full course designed toward those who work in the healthcare field, such as nurses or nursing students, dentists, pharmacists, and EMTs. Although, anyone may take this course. Topics covered will be geared toward those in a healthcare environment and includes situations for adults, children and infants which include the following:

• Chain of survival

• BLS for adults

• The framework for CPR

• High-Performance Rescue Teams

• Main Components of CPR

• Adult BLS Algorithm for Healthcare Providers

• CPR techniques, including how to use a pocket mask and bag-mask device

• 2 rescuer BLS

• Team dynamics

• BLS for children and infants

• AED use for adults, children and infants

• Opioid treatment

• Choking relief for adults, children and infants

The BLS Course focuses on what you need to know to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. You will also learn how to respond to choking and other types of life-threatening emergencies.

After successfully completing the BLS Provider Course, you should be able to:

• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival.

• Describe all the steps in the Chains of Survival.

• Apply the BLS concepts of the Chains of Survival.

• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR.

• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant.

• Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

• Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED.

• Provide effective ventilation by using a barrier device.

• Describe the importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation.

• Perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR.

• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult, a child, and an infant.

You will receive an American Heart Association certification valid for two years. You will receive an email from the American Heart Association with your certificate.

REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS

To register for the Skills Check Only go to:
American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Provider Skills Check Only

Become an AHA Instructor:

Is healthcare provider CPR the same as BLS?

How do I download BLS certificate?

Is BLS the same as professional rescuer?

Is BLS and Aha the same thing?