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Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers

The goal of the Basic Life Support Course is to train participants to save the lives of victims in cardiac arrest through high-quality CPR. The American Heart Association designed the BLS Course to teach healthcare professionals how to perform CPR individually or as part of a team. As a result, participants who complete this training will be certified by the American Heart Association® (AHA®) as a BLS (CPR/AED) Provider. An AHA certification eCard will also be provided upon completion.

Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers Course Objectives

In this course, participants will learn how to:

• Perform CPR and use an AED for adults, children, and infants
• Relieve choking in adults, children, and infants
• Perform CPR and relieve choking using two-person scenarios
• Use a bag-mask systems for ventilation
• How to relieve foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO)

*This class WILL satisfy requirements for all health care programs, including licenses requiring CPR AED. It also covers healthcare education programs at all Wisconsin colleges, universities, and technical colleges.

Basic Life Support Course Length

The Basic Life Support course consists of four (4) hours of in-person instruction, which includes DVD and hands-on instruction, as well as written and skills tests.

Intended Audience

We encourage health care providers who must have a credential documenting successful completion of a CPR course for medical professionals to take this class. Also, this course will satisfy requirements for students in a medical education program.

Upcoming Classes

May 4, 2021: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. at our La Crosse location.

Pricing

1. RC Health Services
2. American Heart Association Online Courses

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WORKPLACE AND SAFETY COURSE

Benefits of on-line learning:

• Students can "attend" a course at any time from anywhere
• Visual learners have useful tools and learn faster than in a traditional classroom
• Students can spend more or less time finishing a course
• 80% of a course is web based and 20% is hands-on and skill based

AHA On-line Course Format

Depending on course content, eLearning courses are delivered in one, two or three parts.

Courses that only involve cognitive learning can be completed online in one part. For courses that contain psychomotor skills such as CPR, students must complete an in-person skills session in addition to online learning. A skills session is comprised of Part 2, skills practice, and Part 3, skills testing.

This three-part delivery effectively blends cognitive learning with skills training. Students are not able to experience the delivery of physical skills from a PC, so eLearning is only as effective as the skills training provided.

FOR SUCCESSFUL COURSE COMPLETION, AHA REQUIRES THAT ELEARNING COURSES WITH PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Part 1: online cognitive lessons—anytime and anywhere with computer access
• Part 2: hands-on skills practice
• Part 3: hands-on skills testing

“What is E-Learning”

Excerpts from E-Learning 1011

Introduction

The meaning of the letter ‘e’ is vast and encompasses many fields – from astronomy to video games. Used in technology, ‘e’ means electronic. E-learning, then, is e-(lectronic) learning, just as e-mail is e-(lectronic) mail. The ‘e’ represents the means by which we receive or access learning – electronically, typically on the Web (online) via a Web browser. This ‘e’ has been described as the ‘how’ and the ‘learning content’ the ‘what’ (Clark & Mayer, 2003).

Notable definitions

Existing literature defines e-learning as instruction accessed electronically on a computer. This instruction could be a class, a course, or a discussion and could look like a book, a movie, a Web page, a game, or a combination of those things. E-learning can be bought or created from scratch.

Some other notable definitions of e-learning are listed below:

1. E-Learning is instruction that is delivered electronically, in part or wholly – via a Web browser, through the Internet or an intranet, or through multimedia platforms such as CD-ROM or DVD (Hall, 1997).

2. E-Learning is a structured, purposeful use of electronic system or computer in support of the learning process (Allen, 2003).

3. E-Learning covers a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes delivering content via the Internet, intranet/extranet (LAN/WAN), audio and videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, and CD-ROM (ASTD, 2001).

4. E-learning is training delivered on a computer (including CD-ROM, Internet, or intranet) that is designed to support individual learning or organizational performance goals (Clark and Mayer, 2003).

5. Web-based training [an alternate term for e-learning] is the integration of instructional practices and Internet capabilities to direct a learner toward a specified level of proficiency in a specified competency (Conrad, 2000).

How Do You Learn Online?

You don’t have to be a computer geek to learn online. In fact, learning how to use a computer can be accomplished by taking an online course (e-learning). It’s kind of like learning to cook while reading a cookbook (no interactivity), watching someone cook and practicing (some interactivity), or cooking an entire dinner with feedback and coaching from an expert chef (high interactivity).

How quickly or deeply someone learns depends on the level of interactivity received. It also depends on how someone learns. Different people learn in different ways, and elearning accommodates different learning styles, abilities, languages, ages, and cultures. This is true in e-learning and traditional face-to-face training. In the past, students have learned in a physical classroom with others, on-the-job, or with a book like a tutorial, often with a test. Elearning is the same – sometimes the learner is alone, sometimes he or she is learning with others at the same time, and sometimes he is learning with others at different times.

Who Uses E-Learning and How is it Used?

All types of organizations use e-learning – private sector/for profit, non-profit, governments, and educational institutions. Organizations use e-learning for many reasons – to save money, to reach geographically dispersed groups, to provide “anywhere-anytime” learning, to provide consistency, to ensure compliance with regulations, and to improve productivity, to name just a few. E-learning is often used for some of the following reasons: to provide introductory/orientation training, to provide remedial training, to provide certification training, to deliver academic courses (for credit), to promote products and services, to support organizational initiatives, to offer training to geographically disparate personnel, to offer a variety of learning opportunities, to coach and mentor learners, to standardize training/knowledge, and to provide software training. Organizations can purchase non-customized e-learning commercially off-the-shelf or can purchase customized content. Organizations can also create their own e-learning using various courseware development tools often called authoring tools (because you are the “author” of a course). Many organizations use a combination.1

1 Reference: E-Learning 101: An Introduction to E-Learning, Learning Tools, and Technologies, page 11-12, by Jane Clarey, Brandon Hall Research.

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