CPR for Healthcare Providers?

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Hello everyone!

To be fully admitted into nursing school, one of the requirements is to get your CPR/AED adult, children and infant certification for healthcare providers. I've already received my certification for lay responders through The American Red Cross.

My question is, do I have to take the full course for healthcare providers? Or can I take the refresher course? The reason I ask is because I was accepted to another school before I was knew whether I'd be accepted to this one and they told me that I could take the refresher course. But they wanted me to get BLS certified through the American Heart and Lung Association. Not sure if I can do the same for Red Cross

I've tried to google this but can't find anything on the topic and don't know who to contact to ask.

Thanks everyone!

Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

You'll need the full course through AHA. The Red Cross course is not comparable, and I really don't know any health care institutions that accept it.

Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

You could probably could have gotten by with Red Cross's CPR for the Professional Rescuer. All the facilities around me will accept that in lieu of AHA's CPR/AED for Healthcare Providers but not Red Cross's CPR for the Lay Rescuer. They teach different techniques. I would suck it up and take AHA's full class as it provides the best flexibility and you won't have to worry about technical requirements.

My school specifically states that they will accept either one.

Taking the full class is fine with me. I'd prefer to save time and money, but it's not a huge deal. Thanks the both of you for the help!

Specializes in ER.

I believe you have to take the full AHA BLS class which isn't that long. I know as an EMT some places accept the American Redcross one if it covers 2 person CPR. The price range differs greatly! If you have time, research options. The prices range from 20 bucks to 100 bucks for the AHA BLS class. I would look on the AHA website for training centers and contact them. The college costs like 50 bucks through the college and 20 bucks through their EMS training classes (I don't know why it is so different besides the more expensive one nets you a half of a college credit). My fire department charged 20 bucks unless you wanted it short notice and they upped it to 50-100 bucks.

I've renewed for the cost of using the dummies and card which was like 10 bucks (the AHA card always costs 5 bucks)

In my area, the AHA is standard and all the hospitals require it. Some of the private EMS providers use a third CPR provider but most still require AHA.

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