HCI: An AHA Certified Training Center
Health Career Institute is a Certified American Heart Association Training center, which allows our institute to teach American Heart Association courses to our students. As a certified AHA training center, we offer quality education in AHA courses such as Heartsaver AED Training, Heartsaver First Aid, Bloodborne Pathogens, Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support and several others.
Below is more information about the AHA certified courses that HCI has to offer:
Heartsaver Bloodborne Pathongens AHA Course
The Heartsaver Bloodborne Pathogens course is a classroom course that teaches employees how to protect themselves and others from being exposed to blood or blood-containing materials.
Heartsaver First Aid AHA Course
The Heartsaver First Aid course is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until EMS professionals arrive. Students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies.
Heartsaver CPR AED AHA Course
The Heartsaver CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult CPR and AED use, as well as how to relieve choking on an adult. This course teaches skills with AHA’s research-proven Practice-While-Watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ learning of skills.
Basic Life Support (BLS) AHA Course
The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers Classroom Course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) AHA Course
ACLS is an advanced, instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) AHA Course
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is a classroom, video-based, Instructor-led course that uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics. The goal of the PALS Course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.
