AHA BLS Instructor class.
The BLS Instructor class is designed to prepare instructor candidates to teach AHA instructor-led and blended learning BLS courses. It educates instructor candidates on how to use AHA instructor teaching materials, ensures that students meet the learning objectives, offers student coaching, provides objective skills performance evaluation, and follows AHA instructor policies.
Learning Objectives for the course
- Identify the prerequisites to becoming an AHA instructor
- Describe the usability of the Program Administration Manual (PAM)
- Describe the core competencies of an AHA instructor
- Describe the 5 steps of the AHA Instructor Cycle: Prepare, Teach, Test & Remediate, Close, and keep current
- Identify resources available to an AHA Instructor
- Describe how to use discipline-specific AHA instructor materials: the Instructor Manual, Lesson Plans, Course Videos, and skills testing checklists
- Identify discipline-specific course formats available to students for completion of the course
- Describe discipline-specific course completion requirements
- Describe discipline-specific flexibility options available to an AHA instructor within a course
- Describe the criteria for how to maintain an AHA instructor status
- Describe effective AHA instructor feedback and remediation techniques
- Demonstrate the administration of skills testing with the use of the skills testing checklists
Class Requirements
1) Have A Current AHA BLS Provider Certification
- You must bring a copy of your current / non-expired AHA BLS Provider certification.
- If you do not have a current / non-expired AHA BLS Provider certification or your certification is from an organization other than AHA please register for a BLS Provider class for a date earlier than the instructor class.
2) The completed BLS Instructor essentials
- This is included in the course registration fee and will be sent to you from elearning@aha.org upon payment for the class.
- You must bring a copy of the online completion certificate or email it to daren@life-compressions.com ahead of the class.
- If you are not able to access the online completion certificate please ensure you have completed the survey at the end of the course.
3) A BLS Instructor Manual
- The BLS instructor manual is included in the registration fee and will be mailed to you upon payment for the class.
- If you are registering for the class less than 14 days before the class please call Life Compressions at (817) 405-2447 to coordinate getting the instructor manual at our office.
- The manual should be reviewed and organized into a binder before the class.
After the class students will need to successfully teach at least 1 monitoring class. Details of options for scheduling a monitoring class will be provided during the instructor's class. Upon successful completion of the BLS Instructor class and the monitoring class students, will be able to teach the AHA BLS (Basic Life Support) or the AHA Heartsaver CPR curriculums within their organization\company, teach for themselves as an independent instructor or teach for an existing AHA training company.
Upon successful completion students will be issued an AHA BLS Instructor certification valid for two years.
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