AHA BLS Instructor class.
The BLS Instructor class is designed to prepare instructor candidates to teach AHA instructor led BLS courses. It educates instructor candidates on how to use AHA instructor teaching materials, ensure that students meet the learning objectives, offer student coaching, provide objective skills performance evaluation and follow AHA instructor policies.
Learning Objectives for the course
- Identify the prerequisites to becoming an AHA instructor
- Describe the usability of the Program Administration Manual (PAM)
- Describe core competencies of an AHA instructor
- Describe the 5 steps of the AHA Instructor Cycle: Prepare, Teach, Test & Remediate, Close, and keep current
- Identify resources available to an AHA Instructor
- Describe how to use discipline-specific AHA instructor materials: the Instructor Manual, Lesson Plans, Course Videos, and skills testing checklists
- Identify discipline-specific course formats available to students for completion of the course
- Describe discipline-specific course completion requirements
- Describe discipline-specific flexibility options available to an AHA instructor within a course
- Describe the requirements for how to maintain an AHA instructor status
- Describe effective AHA instructor feedback and remediation techniques
- Demonstrate the administration of skills testing with the use of the skills testing checklists