Basic Life Support (BLS)

Who should take the course?

The American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

Course Covers

  • The components of high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival for prehospital and in-facility providers
  • Important early use of an AED
  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
  • Importance of teams and team dynamics in multirescuer resuscitations
  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

Course Delivery

Instructors deliver the cognitive learning and the skills practice and testing in a classroom setting. At the end of the course, students are provided a course completion card when they achieve a minimum score of 84% or greater on a 25-question written exam and demonstrate proficient BLS skills performance.

Browse Courses

Browse all BLS courses offered by the CoxHealth Education Center.

Browse Courses by Location

The CoxHealth Education Center offers courses at the following locations:

Springfield
CoxHealth Education Center at Cox North
1423 N Jefferson Avenue
Springfield, MO 65802

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Hollister
Hollister Blue Sky Classroom
207 Blue Sky Lane
Hollister, MO 65672

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Monett
Cox Monett Conference Room 1 & 2
1000 E. Highway 60
Monett, MO 65708

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Joplin*
CoxHealth at Home
2902 Arizona Avenue, Suite 2
Joplin, MO 64804

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*Courses for Joplin CoxHealth at Home employees only.

Disclaimer: The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in all AHA courses and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the AHA. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the AHA.

BLS Blended Learning

The CoxHealth Education Center does not offer BLS blended-learning courses.