Emergency Medical Services
CPR & SPECIALTY COURSES
Alamance Community College offers first aid, CPR, babysitting and many other specialty courses through AHA, HSI, and NAEMT. The courses are designed for healthcare professionals to community members who would like to earn a professional certification.
AHA Basic Life Support:
6 Hours
The BLS Instructor-led course teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support
skills for application in both prehospital and in-facility environments, with a focus
on High-Quality CPR and team dynamics.
AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Initial:
16 Hours
This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and
communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest,
immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes
(ACS).
AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Refresher:
8 Hours
Expands on the core ACLS guidelines through cooperative learning to improve outcomes
in complex cardiovascular, respiratory and other (e.g., metabolic, toxicologic) emergencies.
Through instruction and active participation in case-based scenarios, learners enhance
their skills in the differential diagnosis and treatment of prearrest, arrest and
postarrest patients.
AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS):
16 Hours
PALS Refresher:
8 Hours
PALS is a classroom, video-based, Instructor-led course that uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics.
ITLS International Trauma Life Support Provider:
16 Hours
ITLS Provider includes 8 hours of classroom instruction, 8 hours of hands-on skills
training, and testing for ITLS Basic or Advanced certification. Innovative skills
stations let you practice the abilities appropriate for your level of certification.
With its comprehensive approach to core knowledge and skills, ITLS Provider is appropriate for all levels of EMS personnel—from EMT-Bs and first responders to advanced EMTs, paramedics, trauma nurses, and physicians.
NAEMT Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Initial:
16 Hours
PHTLS Refresher:
8 Hours
PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. The course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics:
- Physiology of life and death
- Scene assessment
- Patient assessment
- Airway
- Breathing, ventilation and oxygenation
- Circulation, hemorrhage and shock
- Patients with disabilities
- Patient simulations
PHTLS is the global gold standard in prehospital trauma education and is taught in 64 countries. PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital providers. PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.
AHA Heartsaver® First Aid
Designed to meet OSHA regulations, this course covers first aid basics, consisting
of the most common life-threatening emergencies, how to recognize them, how to call
for help, and how to perform lifesaving skills.
This course 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.
AHA Heartsaver® CPR AED
This course will teach you to recognize cardiac arrest, get emergency care on the
way quickly, and help a person until more advanced care arrives to take over. The
course also covers adult choking and naloxone.
This course is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult and child CPR
and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve choking 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.
AHA Heartsaver® First Aid CPR & AED
This course is designed to meet OSHA requirements and covers first aid basics and
CPR and AED skills for adults, children, and infants.
This course 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.
AHA Heartsaver® Pediatric First Aid CPR AED
This course teaches basic first aid, CPR, and AED skills for children, and is ideal
for childcare workers who need to meet regulatory training requirements.
This course is a classroom, video-based, Instructor-led course that teaches students to respond to and manage illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives.
This course is designed to meet the regulatory requirements for child care workers in all 50 U.S. states.
Audience
- Child Care Workers
- Teachers
- Foster Care Workers
- Camp Counselors
- Youth Organizations
- Coaches for children’s organizations
- Others responsible for children including parents, grandparents, babysitters, and guardians
Questions? Contact Us.
Kimberly Jeffries
EMS Coordinator, ConEd
kjjeffries127@alamancecc.edu
336-290-0513
Maia Johnson
EMS Department Head
mmjohnson826@alamancecc.edu
336-290-0516
accemsdept@alamancecc.edu