AHA Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers

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The BLS Provider Course is designed for healthcare professionals and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings, as well as individuals enrolled in a healthcare training program.

*This class is for students who do not have a current BLS certification.

Click Here for BLS Renewal Classes

 The American Heart Association’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate breaths and ventilations, and provide early use of an AED. The course reflects science and education from the 2025 AHA Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). 

This course teaches:

- High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants,

BLS concepts from the Chain of Survival, 

- Delivering effective breaths or ventilations, 

- Importance of early use of and how to use an AED, 

- Performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR, &

- Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults, children, and infants.

The course is 4-4.5 hours, with video presentation, discussion, practical application, written exam and skills test.

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$84.99

- $5 Off with Code BLS

The AHA requires that each student have the current digital or printed textbook at this course. If you do not have either, please add either an eBook or printed manual to your order when you register.

- Emailed - AHA BLS Provider eBook

- Printed - AHA BLS Provider Manual

The HeartCode BLS Online with Skills Session (Blended Learning) is designed for healthcare professionals and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings, as well as individuals enrolled in a healthcare training program.

*The Blended Learning is only recommended for students who have a current BLS certification.

Click Here for BLS Provider Classes

The American Heart Association’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate breaths and ventilations, and provide early use of an AED. The course reflects science and education from the 2025 AHA Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). 

This course teaches:

- High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants,

BLS concepts from the Chain of Survival, 

- Delivering effective breaths or ventilations, 

- Importance of early use of and how to use an AED, 

- Performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR, &

- Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults, children, and infants.

Heartcode® BLS Online is a 1-2 hour self-paced eLearning course. The in-person Skills Session is 1 hour, with discussion, practical application and skills tests.

Completion of the HeartCode® BLS Online course (available when registering for class) is required prior to the in-person Skills Session.

$74.99

- $5 Off with Code BLS

AHA requires that each student completes the HeartCode® BLS online prior to this Skills Session. If you have not already purchased this, please keep this on your order when you register.

- Online Class - AHA HeartCode® BLS (Emailed)

*Manuals are optional for this Skills Session.

For any person who wants to learn how and be certified to teach American Heart Association BLS, BLS Renewal and Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED classes and BLS and Heartsaver® Skills Sessions.

*The Class is for students who have a current BLS Provider certification.

The AHA’s BLS Instructor Course prepares instructor candidates to teach all AHA BLS and Heartsaver® courses (BLS, Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED, Pediatric First Aid CPR AED & Bloodborne Pathogens).

- 2 hour BLS Instructor Essentials online precourse assignment;

- 6-7 hour in-person instructor class with a DVD presentation, practical application, written exam and skills test; 

- Monitored teaching. 

Current BLS Provider certification.

$309.99

- $5 Off with Code BLS

AHA requires that each Instructor Candidate have the current digital or printed textbook at this course. If you do not have either, please add either an eBook or printed manual to your order when you register. 

- Online Class -  AHA BLS Instructor Essentials (Emailed)

AHA also requires that each Instructor Candidate completes the Instructor Essentials Online prior to this course. If you have not already purchased this, please add this to your order when you register. 

- Emailed - AHA BLS Instructor eBook

- Printed - AHA BLS Instructor Manual