Basic Life Support Instructor Course

Course Description:

The BLS Instructor Course provides a foundation for teaching facilitating Healthcare Providers to become Instructors. This course offers consistent and uniform Instructor training to create more effective.

Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Instructors. A BLS Instructor can teach any American Heart Association BLS Provider Course and BLS Provider Renewal Course as well as the Heartsaver CPR AED and First Aid Courses for Non-Medical people.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Reveal proficiency in current BLS skills and concepts

• Demonstrate proper function and use of BLS teaching equipment

• Teach a BLS course using the video instruction and lesson maps

• Demonstrate the ability to allow students to practice BLS while watching the video

• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate students fairly and provide appropriate remediation if needed

• Understand and perform defibrillation and transcutaneous pacing

• Use testing materials to conduct skills testing

Target Audience:

American Heart Association BLS providers who nominated to become instructors for the Basic Life Support Provider Course