SAVE A LIFE - CPR TRAINING
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The UHC will not be offering community CPR classes for the remainder of the spring and summer due to renovations inside of the Health Center. We plan to resume monthly community classes in Fall 23.
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Participants must be 18 years of age or older. Class size is limited to 6 maximum.
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HEARTSAVER TRAINING
Spring 2024 Schedule
(1:00pm to 5:00pm)
February 26th
April 22nd
BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) TRAINING
Spring 2024 Schedule
(1:00pm to 5:00pm)
February 8th
March 14th
April 11th
To request CPR training for your department/organization outside of the scheduled dates above, please create a Well-Being Resources Program Request. We can try to accommodate your group depending on instructor availability.
Healthcare Provider BLS / CPR
Per the American Heart Association: “The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.”
This course teaches:
This course is the traditional classroom setting BLS. The blended-learning HeartCode BLS is not currently offered at our facility.
The AHA recommends obtaining course materials three weeks prior to the course date to allow adequate time to review and prepare. Course materials can be picked up at UHC.
Please see the AHA website for more information on this course: cpr.heart.org/en/cpr-courses-and-kits/healthcare-professional/basic-life-support-bls-training
Per the American Heart Association: “The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.”
This course teaches:
- 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 and Bag Valve Mask
- Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
- Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
This course is the traditional classroom setting BLS. The blended-learning HeartCode BLS is not currently offered at our facility.
The AHA recommends obtaining course materials three weeks prior to the course date to allow adequate time to review and prepare. Course materials can be picked up at UHC.
Please see the AHA website for more information on this course: cpr.heart.org/en/cpr-courses-and-kits/healthcare-professional/basic-life-support-bls-training
Heartsaver CPR
Per the American Heart Association: “The AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.”
This course teaches:
The AHA recommends obtaining course materials three weeks prior to the course date to allow adequate time to review and prepare. Course materials can be picked up at the UHC.
Please see the AHA website for more information on this course: cpr.heart.org/en/cpr-courses-and-kits/heartsaver/heartsaver-first-aid-cpr-aed-training
Per the American Heart Association: “The AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.”
This course teaches:
- Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
- Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize when someone needs CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
- Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
- Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
- Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
- Perform high-quality CPR for a child
- Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child
- Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
- Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
- Demonstrate how to help a choking infant
- This course does NOT cover First Aid
The AHA recommends obtaining course materials three weeks prior to the course date to allow adequate time to review and prepare. Course materials can be picked up at the UHC.
Please see the AHA website for more information on this course: cpr.heart.org/en/cpr-courses-and-kits/heartsaver/heartsaver-first-aid-cpr-aed-training
Registration
To sign up, register online here. For questions or concerns please call 706-542-8707. To request CPR training for your department/organization outside of the scheduled dates above, please create a Well-Being Resources Program Request. We can try to accommodate your group depending on instructor availability.
Participants must be 18 years of age or older. Class size is limited to 6 maximum. Training site of and certified by American Heart Association.
To sign up, register online here. For questions or concerns please call 706-542-8707. To request CPR training for your department/organization outside of the scheduled dates above, please create a Well-Being Resources Program Request. We can try to accommodate your group depending on instructor availability.
Participants must be 18 years of age or older. Class size is limited to 6 maximum. Training site of and certified by American Heart Association.
The American Heart Association
The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in all AHA courses and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the AHA. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the AHA.
The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in all AHA courses and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the AHA. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the AHA.