AHA Heartsaver Instructor Development

Develop the skills and complete the required pathway to teach AHA Heartsaver courses.

This course supports qualified candidates through the AHA Heartsaver instructor pathway. Candidates must be accepted by a Training Center and complete the required online, in-person, monitoring, and alignment steps.

At a Glance

What You Will Learn

• Deliver Heartsaver lessons effectively
• Coach and assess hands-on skills
• Manage course administration
• Complete monitored teaching

Course Outline

Acceptance and Prerequisites

Training Center review

Instructor Essentials

Online component

In-Person Development

Teaching, skills, and administration

Monitoring

Observed teaching

Alignment

Final Training Center process

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.