CPR Renewal

The head nurse supervisor at my school district is CPR instructor trained and he provides us with a renewal class. Your district should as well.

Our district provides free CPR classes during the summer for all interested employees. Nurses are required to take the instructor course and we are the ones who teach the classes. We check each other's skills off.

We offer a CPR/AED class for employees taught by our local Fire Dept every other year.

My position is very self-directed and I try to do one new initiative each year, this was one of them. It's a bonus that I get my own recert in the process!

I completed the most recent re-certification of my healthcare provider CPR training online. It was through the American Heart Association. You do all the coursework and modules online at your own pace. Then, you sign up for an appointment at a location where you show a CPR instructor the skills portion. This part took less than 20 minutes for me. I loved the fact that I didn't have to sit in a CPR class for several hours but still got the same instruction. I will never do it another way again!

All of our nurses have to be BLS Instructor certified. We have an outside source come in and recertify all of us at the same time. The district pays for it.

All of our nurses have the same expiration date, our recert is completed during staff development.

I just have to offer a side note--our jobs are much the same but also so much different from each other--when I see "all of our nurses" I really chuckle, in my world I AM all of our nurses!

When speaking to staff groups, I sometimes say " I am proud to say that I am the best nurse in the whole district! "

I just have to offer a side note--our jobs are much the same but also so much different from each other--when I see "all of our nurses" I really chuckle, in my world I AM all of our nurses!

When speaking to staff groups, I sometimes say " I am proud to say that I am the best nurse in the whole district! "

ME TOO! I'm it. :)

Our district provides free CPR classes during the summer for all interested employees. Nurses are required to take the instructor course and we are the ones who teach the classes. We check each other's skills off.

Same here.

There are 4 nurses in my district. I just started here this year, and luckily, I am on the same CPR re-certification schedule as the rest of the nurses in the district which is coming right up. Apparently, the local paramedics recert us for free.

I head to a local hospital and do my BLS re-cert. I will be doing it this summer; my school either pays for it in advance or I get reimbursed. Either way, only cost $30, so I don't stress out too much about it :).

In the beginning of the year, I have the same group I re-cert with come in and teach our staff for a fraction of the funds I would need for me to get instructor certified and purchase the equipment for teaching it myself.

I am the District Nurse for our district and I am not trained as an instructor. I guess I should maybe think about doing that, although I'm not sure where I would fit that training into my schedule!