AHA BLS Provider

Build high-quality CPR, AED, ventilation, and team-response skills for healthcare and emergency settings.

This instructor-led American Heart Association BLS Provider course prepares healthcare professionals to recognize life-threatening emergencies, perform high-quality CPR, use an AED, provide effective ventilations, and work as part of a resuscitation team. Students receive guided practice, coaching, and required skills testing.

At a Glance

What You Will Learn

• Recognize cardiac arrest and activate the emergency response system
• Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
• Use an AED safely and effectively
• Provide effective ventilations and respond to choking
• Apply team dynamics during multi-rescuer resuscitation

Course Outline

Before Class

Registration, legal-name verification, course expectations, required student materials

Core Skills

Adult, child, and infant BLS practice using current AHA course materials

Team Response

Multi-rescuer practice, communication, and team dynamics

Assessment

Required skills testing and any current AHA testing requirements

Completion

Course evaluation, roster processing, and eCard information

Your Instructors

Life Saving Education courses are taught by a team of experienced instructors. Every LSE instructor is at least a paramedic with teaching experience, and many bring additional firefighter, clinical, technical-rescue, or occupational-safety backgrounds. The assigned instructor may vary by course, location, and specialty.

Important Program Notices

AHA Program Disclaimer

The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in BLS, ACLS, and PALS and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the American Heart Association. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the Association.

Completion Documents

Completion documents are issued by the applicable certifying organization after all attendance, skills, testing, and administrative requirements are met. A generic site certificate is never a substitute for an official course completion card or eCard. The organization imposing your training requirement decides what it will accept; verify the required course and completion document before registering.