Class Schedule

 

 

BLS Provider Course (AHA 2020 Guidelines)

Basic Life Support (BLS)

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

Who should take this course?

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.

What does this course teach?

  • 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
  • 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

Per AHA Guidelines, each participant must have the current appropriate course textbook/manual readily available for use before, during, and after the course.To purchase your textbook/manual, please go to either of the following links:

Napa Valley College provides free public WiFi network access. This service is available for student use with a wireless device.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants receive an American Heart Association Course Completion eCard that is valid for two years.

Heartsaver First Aid, CPR and AED Course (AHA 2020 Guidelines)

Course Description

Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Training

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course trains participants to provide first aid, CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who should take this course?

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

What does this course teach?

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
  • Optional modules in Child CPR AED and Infant CPR

This is a classroom, video-based, Instructor-led course that teaches participants critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives.  Participants learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies. This course also teaches adult CPR and AED use.  

AHA requires access to the current course textbook manual before, during, and after the class. The course manual (in either eBook or hard copy print format) can be purchased at the following website link(s):

Upon successful completion of this course, participants receive an American Heart Association Course Completion eCard that is valid for two years.

Heartsaver First Aid, CPR & AED Course (SPANISH VERSION) (AHA 2020 Guidelines)

Heartsaver First Aid, CPR & AED Course

The Instructor-led Training content of the Heartsaver First Aid, CPR & AED course includes:

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury
  • Adult, Child, and Infant CPR and AED use

The AHA (2015) Guidelines for the Heartsaver First Aid, CPR & AED course involve:

  • Priorities, roles, and responsibilities of  first aid resources
  • Key steps in first aid
  • Assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, coking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke
  • Epinephrine pen use
  • Controlling bleeding and bandaging
  • Recognition of common injuries and illnesses
  • How high-quality CPR improves survival and explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
  • Recognition of when someone needs CPR
  • High-quality CPR for an adult, child, and infant
  • Performance as a team member during multi-rescuer CPR
  • Effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
  • How to use and AED on an adult and a child
  • How to use an AED on an infant
  • When and hot to help a choking adult, child, and infant

Upon successful completion of the course, participants receive an American Heart Association Course Completion eCard that is valid for two years.

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Contact Us

Napa CPR
 Napa Valley College
2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway
Napa, CA 94558

phone (707) 481-5646

AHA Course eBooks and print manuals are available to purchase 24/7 at: 

https://shopcpr.heart.org/  

 

 

     

    

* 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 matierials, do not represent income to the AHA.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

If you must cancel a "face to face" class that you have registered for, your cancellation notification must be received by email to ccattolica@napavalley.edu 48-hours prior to the class date and start time. If your notification is received 48-hours prior to the class date and start time, you will be able to reschedule your attendance at a future class at no additional charge. If you would like to request a refund, you will have up to 72-hours prior to the class date and start time to do so. Please note:  If you are a 'no show' at the scheduled class that you have registered for, this will result in your ineligibility to reschedule for a future class at no additional charge or to receive a refund for that particular class. You will be able to register for a future class and pay the full costs of that class. We reserve the right to cancel a class at any time for unforeseen circumstances.