Below is a list of the current course offerings. You may scroll down to see the complete course description, & requirements. Please contact us to schedule your course today.
CPR for Healthcare Providers (Adult, Child, & Infant)
Basic Life Support (BLS) trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. In this instructor-led course, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students must also complete a written exam with a passing score of 84%. This course typically takes approximately four hours to complete.
Heartsaver First Aid, CPR, & AED
Heartsaver First Aid, CPR, & AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrives. Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants. This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills. This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.
Heartsaver First Aid
Heartsaver First Aid is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrives. Students learn duties and responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack, and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies, including external bleeding, broken bones and sprains, and bites and stings. This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.
Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT)
Every day in the United States, Emergency Medical Technicians provide out of hospital emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical services (EMS) system. EMTs have the knowledge and skills necessary to stabilize and safely transport patients ranging from non-emergency and routine medical transports to life threatening emergencies. Emergency Medical Technicians function as part of a comprehensive EMS response system, under medical oversight. Emergency Medical Technicians perform interventions with the basic equipment typically found on an ambulance. Emergency Medical Technicians are a critical link between the scene of an emergency and the health care system. This course typically meets twice a week for three months.
Emergency Vehicle Operator Course (EVOC)
The Emergency Vehicle Operator Course (EVOC) is patterned after the Virginia State Office of Transportation Safety EVOC guide. The course emphasizes safe driving skills. Additionally, the course gives you (the emergency driver) all the vehicle codes of Virginia which will affect you. This course is designed to help reduce the number of crashes involving emergency vehicles. The course includes classroom and driving range skills. Upon completion of the VAVRS EVOC course, five points can be added to the driver’s DMV record in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This point system for your license is allowed only once every two (2) years. Initial course completion requires attendance during the entire 16-hour course that spans two days. The first day will be spent in the classroom, and the second day is on the driving range. Visit vavrs.com for more information. Refresher courses are available, and the practical driving portion may be waived by the lead instructor with documentation of driving experience received by the lead instructor.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
The AHA’s ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). ACLS is geared towards healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies or personnel in emergency response. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a course completion card, valid for two years. Please contact your employer to ensure that you are selecting the correct course. This course includes effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team, BLS skills (chest compressions, AED, and BVM), recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest, recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia/tachycardia, advanced airway management, advanced pharmacology, and management of ACS and stroke. Initial course completion is 16 hours over two days. The refresher course is completed in 8 hours. This requires successful completion of a pre course assessment, and a written course completion test.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support – Experienced Provider (ACLS-EP)
For providers who are proficient in performing BLS and ACLS skills, reading and interpreting ECGs, understanding ACLS pharmacology; and who regularly lead or participate in emergency assessment and treatment of prearrest, arrest, or post arrest patients.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) is a course offered by the AHA for health care providers who take care of children and infants in the emergency room, critical care and intensive care units in the hospital, and out of hospital EMS providers. The course teaches healthcare providers how to assess injured and sick children and recognize and treat respiratory distress/failure, shock, cardiac arrest, and arrhythmias. Successful course completion includes a written exam score of 84% or higher.
Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS)
PEARS is for healthcare providers such as emergency medical technicians (EMTs), medical and surgical nurses, school nurses and any other healthcare providers who see critically ill infants and children infrequently. Systematic pediatric assessment to include recognition and stabilization of respiratory emergencies, shock emergencies, cardiopulmonary arrest, and the resuscitation team concept. Students who successfully complete the PEARS Course will receive a PEARS Provider course completion card valid for 2 years. Course completion requirements include successfully completion of a written exam with a minimum score of 84%. active participation in the case discussions, skills stations, and cardiac arrest case simulations.
CPR for Friends and Family
The Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, adult CPR with breaths, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR, and mild and severe airway block for adults, children, and infants. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment using the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which provides students with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible. This course does not require a written exam or provide a course completion certification.
Stop The Bleed
A bleeding injury can happen anywhere. We’ve all seen it happen too often—on the news or in everyday life. Life-threatening bleeding can happen in people injured in serious accidents or disasters. Instead of being a witness, you can become an immediate responder because you know how to STOP THE BLEED®. The person next to a bleeding victim may very well be the one who’s most likely to save him or her from bleeding to death. By learning how to STOP THE BLEED®, you’ll gain the ability to recognize life-threatening bleeding and act quickly and effectively to control bleeding once you learn three quick techniques. Take the STOP THE BLEED® training course and become empowered to make a life-or-death difference when a bleeding emergency happens. Our instructors will teach you in person, using training materials specially developed to teach bleeding control techniques. They will not only instruct you, but they will also be available to check your movements as you practice three different bleeding control actions. They will keep working with you until you demonstrate the correct skills to STOP THE BLEED® and save a life.
Revive Narcan
This course provides training to the general public on how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose emergency using 6 easy steps.
Instructor Courses
We offer instructor courses in all of the course disciplines that we offer. Please reach out to us with any questions regarding becoming an instructor. We would love to help you be able to serve in the instructor role. We can assist with instructor courses, mentoring, and alignment.
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