CDC Lifestyle – sponsored BLS Courses: August – December 2006
Office of Health and Safety
Health Promotion
The Lifestyle Program announces……
American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Health Care Provider Classes
Specially scheduled AHA Basic Life Support (BLS) for Health Care Provider courses are being provided exclusively for Atlanta based Commissioned Corps Officers to help them meet deployment readiness policy requirements. Priority enrollment will be given for active duty officers who need to obtain BLS certification to meet basic standards for readiness. Officers who are assigned to other agencies or outside the Atlanta area may wish to visit the Atlanta COA website for alternate training classes , visit the Office of Commissioned Corps Personnel (OCCP) website, or contact OCCP staff at 770-488-1743 for additional information.
Course Description: The BLS for Healthcare Providers Course is designed to teach the skills of CPR for victims of all ages (adult and pediatric) including ventilation with a barrier device, bag-mask ventilation, use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for the responsive and unresponsive victim.
Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers –RENEWAL Course
This course is for those persons whose certification is current. This is a shorter and faster paced course. Participants must provide a copy of their current card faxed to the Lifestyle Office (404) 639-4075 as soon as they register for a course. However, if you have taken the course through the Lifestyle Program, we can look up your certification date up in our database to confirm your current card. AHA certifications are for 2 years so check your card for your last certification date!
Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers – INITIAL Course
This course is for those persons taking the course for the 1st time or whose card is not current.
Course Information
All RENEWAL courses will be held from 9:00am-1:00pm; All INITIAL courses will be held from 9:00am-3:00pm. ALL BLS courses will be held at Clifton Road, Bldg. 20 in the Lifestyle Fitness Center Conference Room (1st floor)
Basic Life Support for HCP – RENEWAL
Thursday, September 14
Basic Life Support for HCP - INITIAL
Thursday, September 21
Basic Life Support for HCP - RENEWAL
Thursday, September 28
Basic Life Support for HCP - INITIAL
Thursday, October 5
Basic Life Support for HCP - RENEWAL
Thursday, October 12
Basic Life Support for HCP - RENEWAL
Thursday, October 26
Basic Life Support for HCP - RENEWAL
Thursday, November 2
Basic Life Support for HCP - RENEWAL
Thursday, November 9
Basic Life Support for HCP - INITIAL
Thursday, November 16
Basic Life Support for HCP - INITIAL
Thursday, November 30
Basic Life Support for HCP - INITIAL
Thursday, December 7
Basic Life Support for HCP - RENEWAL
Thursday, December 14
- E-mail the Lifestyle Program life@cdc.gov with:
- Your name
- Your work phone and CDC mailstop
- If you are registering for a “RENEWAL” course, you must fax (404-639-4075) a copy of your card or let us know what class you took with Lifestyle (if appropriate) for us to look up your information.
- The Lifestyle Program Office will e-mail you back with confirmation or waiting list information. (For a renewal course we will e-mail you with confirmation once we’ve confirmed your “current” status).
- Approximately 2 days before the course, participants will receive PRE-Course
Instructions by e-mail (this e-mail will contain directions and information
on what to bring to class).
Please make sure that when you sign up for a course, you write or put it on your own calendar! Don’t wait for us to remind you of the date that you signed up for. It is very important that you let us know if you aren’t going to be able to attend a course so that we can add someone that might be on the waiting list!
If you have any questions, please call Terri Thompson, Lifestyle CPR Program Coordinator at (404) 639-2164.