AHA Healthcare Provider: Online and Hands-On Skills

Dates:

• March 17, 2025
• May 5, 2025
• June 23, 2025
• September 22, 2025
• November 10, 2025

Times:

• 8 to 9 a.m.
• 9 to 10 a.m.
• 10 to 11 a.m.
• 11 a.m. to Noon

Location: Broadway Building, Suite 1630
Code: DAHS-NAHCPRHP16-BL
Capacity: 9
Waiting list: No

The American Heart Association’s BLS for Healthcare Providers Online Part 1 Course, Web-based and accessible 24 hours a day, provides a flexible alternative to classroom training. Through case-based scenarios, interactive activities and videos, this course teaches the concepts of both single-rescuer and team basic life support. An ideal option for health-care providers seeking an alternative to traditional classroom training for initial or renewal training that provides a BLS for Healthcare Provider course completion card.

The complete course combines the Part 1 web-based lessons with hands-on skills practice and skills testing to teach students how to deliver timely and effective CPR sequences for adult, child and infant patients in cardiopulmonary arrest.

Participants must complete Part 1, BLS for Healthcare Provider CPR online course and the Part 2 and 3, hands-on skills practice and skills test session, with an authorized AHA BLS instructor after completion of the online module. Please refer to the:

• BLS Online Module Tip Sheet (PDF)
• CPR Online Module Instructions (PDF)

After you successfully complete all 3 parts, you will receive an AHA BLS for Healthcare Provider course completion card, valid for two years. How to claim your AHA eCard (PDF).

Be courteous and on time. Students are expected to attend and participate in the entire course. Participants will not be allowed to attend the session if they are more than 5 minutes late. Late participants are considered a no show and any fee will be forfeited.

Wear loose, comfortable clothing or scrubs. You will be practicing skills that require working on your hands, bending, standing, and lifting. If you have physical conditions that might prevent you from participating in the course, please notify us prior to the course. The instructor will work to accommodate your needs within the stated course completion requirements.

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$70 registration fee. Registration includes an online module, skills practice, and test session. A link to the online module will be delivered to course participants 30 days prior to the class date via e-mail. UC Davis Health personnel will receive their AHA online module on their UC Davis e-mail account per hospital policy.

Cancellation must be requested five days prior to the class date and the AHA online module cannot have been accessed to receive a full refund. The full registration fee will be forfeited if the online course was accessed. If the provider cancels the course, participants will be rescheduled, or a full refund will be provided.

The AHA 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.

Individuals needing special accommodations may call the Center for Professional Practice of Nursing at 916-734-9790.

Parking is available in parking structure 4, lots 12, 17, 22, 22 Auxiliary, 30, 30 Auxiliary, Broadway, EDD, and DOJ with either a B permit or daily permit. Daily permits are available for purchase with the ParkMobile app using zone number 42201 or at a parking kiosk. Please visit Parking and Transportation Services for more information.

Please contact the AHA program manager at hs-aha@ucdavis.edu.

Jan Shepard, M.S.N., R.N., N.P.D.-B.C., C.C.R.N.
Professional Development Specialist