American Heart Association Courses

Basic Life Support training reinforces healthcare professionals' understanding of the importance of early CPR and defibrillation, basic steps of performing CPR, relieving choking, using an AED, and the role of each link in the chain of survival.

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Tuition for this course, initial or re-certification, is $60.

Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrives. Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants.

This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

Tuition for this course, initial or re-certification, is $60.

Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Initial and Recertification courses are offered every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.  Class begins at 1PM.
Complete the registration form below to choose your date.

This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest care, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

Tuition for the initial course is $150.

Tuition for the recertification course is $75.

ACLS Initial and Recertification courses are offered every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.  Class begins at 1PM.  Complete the registration form below to choose your date.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics. The goal of the PALS course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.

The PALS course is for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children. These include personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units, such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, and others who need a PALS course completion card for jobs or other requirements.

Courses are available Fridays of each month.

Tuition for the initial course is $150.

Tuition for the recertification course is $75.

PALS Initial and Recertification courses are offered every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.  Class begins at 1PM.  Complete the registration form below to choose your date.

Before attending the instructor course classroom module, the candidate should complete the following steps:

• Have current AHA provider status in the discipline of the instructor course and be proficient in all the skills of that discipline.
• Successfully complete the discipline-specific Instructor Essentials online course.  Instructor Essential courses may be found at https://shopcpr.heart.org/courses/instructor-essentials.
• The candidate should have viewed the current AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC Instructor Updates, Parts 1 - 7 at https://www.ahajournals.org/toc/circ/142/16_suppl_2.
• Bring with you to the classroom module a copy of your current provider card, and the Instructor Essential Completion Certificate.  Alternatively, you may email a copy to bobby.trinity@outlook.com.  The Instructor Essentials completion certificate may be sent at a later time if you have not compoleted this prior to the classroom module.
• Upon completion of the classroom module, the candidate will have 6 months to be monitored teaching a class for the discipline they are seeking.

Check the Course Calendar page for available dates for the AHA Instructor Course.  Class dates are typically offered every 3rd Tuesday or Wednesday of the month.  Class begins at 2PM.   Complete the registration form, and choose your date, using the How To REGISTER instructions below.

Tuition for this course is $200.