First Aid/CPR/AED & Babysitter's Training
American Heart Association
The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
What does this course teach?
- High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants.
- The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
- Important early use of an AED
- Effective ventilations using a barrier device
- Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is geared towards anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a course completion card, valid for two years. Please contact your employer to ensure that you are selecting the correct course.
What does this course teach?
- First aid basics
- Medical emergencies
- Injury emergencies
- Environmental emergencies
- Preventing illness and injury
- Adult CPR and AED use
- Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
- Optional modules in Child CPR AED and Infant CPR
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED r.21 program is designed to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies. The courses in this program teach participants the knowledge and skills needed to give immediate care to an injured or ill person when minutes matter, and to decide whether advanced medical care is needed.
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The primary purpose of the courses in the American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers program trains participants with the knowledge and skills needed to provide professional-level care for breathing and cardiac emergencies for adults, children, and infants until advanced emergency medical services (EMS) professionals take over.
CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers Course Content:
- Lowering the Risk for Infection, Rapid Assessment and Ventilations
- Lowering the Risk for Infection
- Responding to Medical Emergencies
- Rapid Assessment
- Using a Resuscitation Mask
- Using a Bag-Valve-Mask Resuscitator
- Giving Ventilations
- Putting It All Together: Rescue, Extrication, Rapid Assessment and BVM
- In-Water Ventilations CPR, AED and Obstructed Airway Care
- Cardiac Arrest and the Cardiac Chain of Survival
- Providing High Quality CPR
- Single-Rescuer CPR (Adult/Child)
- Single-Rescuer CPR (Infant)
- Two-Rescuer CPR (Adult/child/infant)
- Using an AED Safe and Effective AED Use
- Obstructed Airway Care (Adult/child)
- Obstructed Airway Care (Infant)
- Multiple-Rescuer Team Response
- Multiple-Rescuer Team Response Scenarios
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To provide youth who are planning to babysit with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and responsibly give care for children and infants. This training will help participants to develop leadership skills; learn how to develop a babysitting business, keep themselves and others safe and help children behave; and learn about basic child care and basic first aid.
Learn more about this certification directly from the American Red Cross Here