Basic Life Support (BLS) New Provider Certification (Dec 09, 2026)

Basic Life Support (BLS) New Provider Certification is organized by Adventist Health Castle (AHCS) and will be held on Dec 09, 2026 at Adventist Health Castle, Kailua, Hawaii, United States of America.

Description:
The American heart Association BLS Course provides the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest. Updated to reflect new science and education in the 2020 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC. This course teaches basic life support skills for application in both in-facility and pre-hospital settings, with a focus on high-quality CPR, improvement of chest compression fraction, and high-performing team dynamics.

The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare provider and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings or for those in a healthcare training program.

The AHA’s new BLS Course offers:

• Content representing the latest resuscitation science for improved patient outcomes
• Realistic scenarios, simulations, and animations depicting rescuers, teams, and patients
• Course and content flexibility for AHA Instructors and students, including adaptability to local protocols

After successfully completing the BLS Course, students should be able to:

• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
• Describe all the steps of the Chain of Survival
• Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
• Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED
• Provide effective ventilation using a barrier device
• Perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
• Describe the importance of teams in multi rescuer resuscitation
• Perform as an effective team member during multi rescuer CPR
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult or child
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an infant