Basic Life Support (BLS) (SD) May 8

Masks are required in all of our classes. No exceptions. Students will also be required to stay 6 feet apart at all times.

You will do the skills demonstration and skills test in class AFTER doing the online portion.

The purpose of the Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS) course is to ensure that individuals with a duty to respond (public safety professionals and healthcare providers) have the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies. The course emphasizes active, hands-on learning and uses scenario activities to help participants learn how to provide CPR, use an AED and relieve an obstructed airway for adult, child and infant patients.

Before registering for this class, you should make sure that your organization will accept a BLS certification from the American Red Cross. We can not refund you once you attend the class.

Course Prerequisites: None

Learning Objectives: 

Effectively assess an emergency situation and perform a scene size-up.

Demonstrate how to check both a conscious and unconscious patient.

Demonstrate how to give high-quality chest compressions.

Demonstrate how to give effective ventilations to a patient experiencing a cardiac arrest and/or respiratory arrest, including using a pocket mask and bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator.

Demonstrate how to effectively operate an AED.

Demonstrate how to effectively care for an obstructed airway.

Effectively assess, treat and manage a patient requiring basic life support resuscitation, incorporating local protocols as necessary.

Demonstrate the ability to apply critical thinking (e.g., anticipate next steps and ramifications of actions) and problem-solving skills.

This certification is