CPR, BLS, AED and First Aid
Learn the lifesaving skills needed to respond confidently during cardiac, breathing and first-aid emergencies.
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Overview
CPR and BLS classes are available. Course options, dates and certification details will be posted once final authorization is confirmed.
To ask which classes are running, and to be told first when the schedule is published, contact us directly.
Curriculum
The concrete skills covered, so you can compare this against any other course you are considering.
Who it is for
If more than one of these describes you, it probably is. If the other side describes you better, call us and we will point you elsewhere.
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Choosing a course
“CPR class” is not one product. It is a family of courses with different audiences, different skill lists and different cards, and the differences matter because the wrong card gets rejected at onboarding. Before booking anything, get the requirement in writing from whoever will check it — your employer’s HR or clinical education department, your licensing board, your degree programme or your certifying agency.
The first tier is lay-rescuer training, for people with little or no medical background who need a card for work or simply want to be ready. Separately there are awareness sessions that deliberately do not certify anyone. If a job, licence or programme application requires proof, an awareness session will not satisfy it.
The second tier is BLS for healthcare providers. Its distinguishing content is not harder CPR — it is high-performance, multi-rescuer resuscitation: team dynamics and role assignment, two-rescuer ratios, bag-mask ventilation and pulse checks. This is the level most clinical employers, nursing programmes and allied-health programmes mean when they write “CPR required”.
The third tier is advanced life support — ACLS and its paediatric counterpart PALS — for clinicians who direct or participate in managing cardiac arrest and other cardiopulmonary emergencies. These assume rhythm recognition, drug therapy and post-arrest care. Neither is a substitute for a CPR card in a non-clinical role, and neither is an entry-level course.
The failure mode is predictable. A CNA applicant books the short lay-rescuer course because it is cheaper, and is told to redo it as BLS. A fitness instructor books BLS because it sounds more serious, and pays for team content they will never use. A parent books BLS when a family course was exactly right.
Cards and renewal
Cards from the major awarding organisations are typically valid for two years, and commonly expire at the end of the month of issue. There is generally no published grace period, so treat the expiry month as a hard deadline and book a renewal a month or two early rather than after it lapses. Renewal and initial courses usually cover the same skills at a different pace, not to a lesser standard.
The single most important mechanical point is that a hands-on skills component is normally required. For courses that include psychomotor skills such as CPR, a student generally has to complete an in-person or supervised skills session before a card can be issued — which is why blended-learning products pair online coursework with a practical session. Purely online instant-certificate products exist, but they are not equivalent and are frequently rejected.
Finally, employers may name an awarding organisation. It is common and lawful for a hospital, agency or school district to specify one organisation’s card and to decline another. A card is only useful if the organisation checking it accepts it, so verify the accepted awarding body and the exact course title before you enrol in anything.
Legal protection
This is one of the most common reasons people hesitate, so it is worth answering. Florida’s Good Samaritan Act and its Cardiac Arrest Survival Act provide civil-liability immunity for people who render emergency care in good faith, including those who use or attempt to use an AED in a perceived medical emergency. There are exceptions for wilful misconduct, gross negligence and reckless disregard.
That is general information rather than legal advice, and the statutes are linked below so you can read the wording yourself. The practical point stands: the law is written to encourage a trained bystander to act.
Before you start
What the state sets, and what is simply practical. Anything set by the state should be confirmed against the source, because it changes.
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Common questions
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(407) 606-7964Usually not for employment. For courses involving hands-on skills such as CPR, the major awarding organisations require a practical skills session before a card is issued, and online-only certificates are widely rejected by hospitals, schools and licensing bodies. If a vendor promises certification with no skills check, verify acceptance with your employer before paying.
Typically two years from issue, commonly expiring at the end of the issuing month. Because there is generally no published grace period, treat the expiry month as a hard deadline. Book a renewal a month or two early rather than letting it lapse, since an expired card usually means retaking the full course rather than a shortened update.
CPR is the skill. BLS is a specific healthcare-provider course level that includes CPR plus pulse checks, bag-mask ventilation, two-rescuer ratios and team dynamics. Lay-rescuer courses teach CPR and AED use without the team-based provider content. When a clinical employer writes “CPR required”, they almost always mean BLS.
Only your employer can answer that, and you should get it in writing before paying for any course anywhere. Many hospitals, agencies and school districts specify a particular awarding organisation’s card. Ask them for the exact course title, which awarding bodies they accept, and whether a blended-learning format is acceptable to them.
It depends who you care for. Florida child care standards require current first aid and infant and child CPR certification for staff, so adult-only training will not satisfy a licensing inspection. Most modern first aid, CPR and AED courses cover adult, child and infant together, but confirm the paediatric scope is explicitly named on the card.
Not automatically. CPR with AED, and first aid with CPR and AED, are separate products, and provider-level BLS courses typically do not include general first aid such as bleeding control, burns and splinting. If your workplace first-aid programme or job description names first aid, check that the course title includes it rather than assuming.
29 CFR 1910.151(b) requires adequately trained first-aid personnel where no infirmary, clinic or hospital is in near proximity. OSHA interpretations treat that as roughly three to four minutes of emergency response time in higher-hazard workplaces, and up to about fifteen minutes in low-hazard settings such as offices. Some industry-specific standards are stricter.
CPR and BLS classes are available. Course options, dates and certification details will be posted after final authorization is confirmed. We are deliberately not publishing a schedule or naming a branded course before then. Call us and we will tell you exactly what is available today, without guessing at what is not.
Where this comes from
Every regulatory statement on this page traces to a primary source. We would rather you checked them than took our word for it — and requirements change, so confirm your own before you rely on anything here.
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