{"id":577,"date":"2023-01-05T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/?page_id=577"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:23:15","slug":"cpr-first-aid-training-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/gillett-wellness-center\/lessons-courses\/cpr-first-aid-training-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"CPR\/First Aid Training Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">91̽»¨ offers two American Heart Association courses: Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED and BLS Basic Life Support.<\/p>\n<h2>Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course<\/h2>\n<p>The $105 Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course is for those with little or no medical training who need a course completion card for their job or regulatory requirements or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.<\/p>\n<p>It covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>first aid basics<\/li>\n<li>medical emergencies<\/li>\n<li>injury emergencies<\/li>\n<li>environmental emergencies<\/li>\n<li>prevention of illness and injury<\/li>\n<li>adult CPR and AED use<\/li>\n<li>opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies<\/li>\n<li>optional modules in child CPR AED and infant CPR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The in-person classroom course can be completed in approximately 3 hours. Upon successful completion, students will receive a course completion card, valid for two years. Registration\/dates\/fees will be posted later this summer.<\/p>\n<h2>BLS Basic Life Support Course<\/h2>\n<p>The $125 BLS Basic Life Support course is for prehospital providers like EMTs, paramedics and in-facility hospital providers.<\/p>\n<p>It covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants<\/li>\n<li>the AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components<\/li>\n<li>important early use of an AED<\/li>\n<li>effective ventilations using a barrier device<\/li>\n<li>the importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR<\/li>\n<li>relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for adults and infants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The BLS Initial\/Renewal course takes approximately 4.5 hours to complete. Registration\/dates\/fees will be posted later this summer<\/p>\n<h2>Registration<\/h2>\n<p>Businesses, groups or individuals can also request a provider to instruct their personnel at their place of business or at the Gillett Wellness Center.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Holly Bannor at (218) 755-2940 (<a href=\"mailto:holly.bannor@bemidjistate.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">holly.bannor@bemidjistate.edu<\/a>) for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91̽»¨ offers two American Heart Association courses: Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED and BLS Basic Life Support. Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course The $105 Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course is for those with little or no medical training who need a course completion card for their job or regulatory requirements or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":589,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/577\/revisions\/1142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/services\/campus-recreation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}