American Red Cross Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professionals (blended learning)

The American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) course is designed to train healthcare professionals including nurses, physicians, EMS professionals, CNAs, and other healthcare and public safety personnel to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants.

Course Completion Requirements

Online session completion requirements for both initial course participants and certifying course participants are the same. However, the way each participant works through the online session may differ owing to the adaptive learning technology used by the Red Cross course.

Lesson Assessments

Each lesson begins with a pre-assessment and ends with a post-assessment.

• Pre-Assessment: The pre-assessment is optional and contains a series of questions that are aligned to the specific topics within the lesson. After completing the pre-assessment, you will receive an independent learning path for the lesson based on the results from the pre-lesson assessment. This learning path provides a guide to completing each lesson. Based on these results, you can completely test out of the lesson, test out of specific topics for the lesson or be required to complete the entire lesson.
• Post-Assessment: At the end of each lesson, you will be presented with the BLS Team Response Scenario(s). These scenarios evaluate your ability to provide emergency care as part of a high-performance team. You are required to successfully pass the post-assessment before completing the lesson.

Final Assessment

Once you complete all lessons, you must pass a 25-question exam in order to complete the online session.

In-Person Skills Session

In order to receive a BLS certificate, you must successfully complete the online session and attend an in-person skills session where you will perform the skills you learned in the online session.