BLS / Basic Life Support
Healthcare Provider Courses
Healthcare Provider Courses
What Is the Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification?
Most people are familiar with CPR and First Aid certification programs. These are basic, foundational certifications that are required – or strongly recommended – for a wide range of professionals, from lifeguards and daycare providers to police officers and medical health professionals.
It may come as a surprise then when you go to apply for one of these jobs – typically one that involves some aspect of direct health or medical care – and see the job requirements include a BLS (Basic Life Support) certification. What is that all about?
These courses take the traditional CPR course and go a bit more in-depth when it comes to things like:
- CPR in a healthcare or medically-oriented environments.
- Improvement of chest compression fraction.
- Realistic scenarios, simulations, and animations depicting rescuers, teams, and patients CPR when administered as a team, which is touched on in basic CPR but requires more emphasis for Healthcare professionals.
- AED instruction.
- Additional medical support information such as administering oxygen masks
Who Typically Needs a BLS Certification?
Because BLS certification places in emphasis on CPR for the medical environment, as well as additional, basic life support training, most companies or organizations requiring BLS certification employ:
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Respiratory Therapists
- Paramedics
- EMTs
- Firefighters
- Respiratory Therapists
- Medical Assistants
- Lifeguards
- Allied Healthcare Professionals
What type of BLS/ Basic Life Support Certification
do you need?
(Same Day Certification’s Available)
do you need?
Basic Lift Support
American First Responder