Class Schedule

ACLS Instructor

Do you hold a current AHA ACLS provider certification? Are you interested in teaching First Aid and CPR to others? If you answered yes to both questions, then the Instructor Program is the right program to meet your needs. 

The Instructor Program is intended for any individual, currently certified in BLS, who wishes to become an instructor of ACLS. This is a multi-part program which includes online training, classroom training, student teaching, and observation. 

All Materials required for the course are inlcuded in DIGITAL format. You can choose to change it to print materials via the course add on spot. As a note the paper instructor manuals are sent as 3-whole punched paper without a binder from the AHA.

Included in Cost:

• ACLS Essentials
• ACLS Digital Instructor Manual
• ACLS Digital Provider Manual
• Initial Monitoring

Pre-Requisites:

• Be at least 18 years of age.

• Be aligned with an AHA TC/TS (You can align with us, we do not charge for alignment.

• Have a current AHA ACLS Provider Course Completion Card (if exprired or about to expire and cannot attend a renewal, click on the HeartCode ACLS on the add on's. You will be expected to show up 45 mintues prior to start of class for skills.)

• Be proficient in the skills of BLS and ACLS

• Successfully complete the online portion of the instructor’s essentials.

CAPCE CE’s included are: 1.25 Hour for Online Essentials Course, and 9 hours for the in person course for a total of 10.25 Hours.

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Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) remains the gold standard of education for emergency medical assessment and treatment. Endorsed by the National Association of EMS Physicians, AMLS emphasizes the use of the AMLS Assessment Pathway, a systematic tool for assessing and managing common medical conditions with urgent accuracy.

In the third edition of AMLS, students learn to recognize and manage common medical crises through realistic case-based scenarios that challenge students to apply their knowledge to highly critical patients.  The course emphasizes the use of scene size-up, first impression, history, interactive group discussion on differential diagnosis and potential treatment strategies, and physical exam to systematically rule out and consider possibilities and probabilities in treating patients’ medical crises. The third edition AMLS library of patient simulations offers students an opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to a variety of patient presentations. Additional features include patient simulation monitor images and ECGs provided by iSimulate, to enhance students’ experience.

The course utilizes the AMLS textbook and course manual, and covers the following topics:

• Respiratory disorders
• Cardiovascular disorders
• Shock
• Sepsis
• Neurological disorders
• Endocrine/Metabolic disorders
• Environmental emergencies
• Infectious disease
• Abdominal disorders
• Toxicological emergencies
• Exposure to hazardous materials

AMLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists and physicians. AMLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.

• Friday, June 28, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (6 seats left)Cordial Fire/EMS Education

The All Hazards Disaster Response (AHDR) course teaches students how to respond to the many types of disaster scenarios they may encounter, including natural disasters and infrastructure failings, fires and radiological events, pandemics, active shooter incidents, and other mass casualty events. AHDR educates participants on how to analyze potential threats in their area, assess available resources, and create a response plan that will save lives.

Features of a medical response plan covered in the course include:

• Communicating effectively during disasters.
• Mutual aid and interoperability.
• Managing resources such as supplies, medications and equipment.
• Triage and transportation strategies and challenges.
• Patient tracking and evacuation.

At the start of the course, participants conduct a “hazards vulnerability analysis” to assess features of their environment, both natural and man-made, that pose risk along with assessing the needs of vulnerable populations, such as assisted-living residents or hospital patients that need special consideration during such an event.

Content is presented in the context of realistic scenarios, culminating with a large-scale mass casualty activity.

AHDR is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners. This course is offered in the classroom and provides 8 hours of CAPCE credit and NREMT recognition.

• Wednesday, June 26, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (9 seats left)Cordial Fire/EMS Education

BLS Instructor

Do you hold a current AHA BLS provider certification? Are you interested in teaching First Aid and CPR to others? If you answered yes to both questions, then the Instructor Program is the right program to meet your needs. 

The Instructor Program is intended for any individual, currently certified in BLS, who wishes to become an instructor of BLS and Heartsaver CPR/AED classes. This is a multi-part program which includes online training, classroom training, student teaching, and observation. 

All Materials required for the course are inlcuded in DIGITAL format. You can choose to change it to print materials via the course add on spot. As a note the paper instructor manuals are sent as 3-whole punched paper without a binder from the AHA.

Included in Cost:

• BLS Essentials
• BLS Digital Instructor Manual
• BLS Digital Provider Manual
• HeartSaver Digital Instructor Manual 
• HeartSaver Digital Provider Manual
• Initial Monitoring

Pre-Requisites:

• Be at least 18 years of age.

• Be aligned with an AHA TC/TS (You can align with us, we do not charge for alignment.

• Have a current AHA BLS Provider Course Completion Card (if exprired or about to expire and cannot attend a renewal, click on the HeartCode BLS on the add on's. You will be expected to show up 45 mintues prior to start of class for skills.)

• Be proficient in the skills of BLS

• Successfully complete the online portion of the instructor’s essentials.

CAPCE CE’s included are: 1 Hour for Online Essentials Course, and 5.25 hours for the in person course for a total of 6.25 Hours.

*Program is a BLS instructor course which provides you the ability to teach both BLS and the Heartsaver line of courses

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EMS Safety course teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues, and provides students with a forum to share their own experiences. Course activities allow students to apply critical thinking and best safety practices to EMS scenarios. 

Students are taught to

• Identify and manage the hazards that can appear during daily tasks, from offensive drivers to violent encounters to chronic stress.
• Describe and apply the principles of crew resource management in EMS.
• Apply techniques to maintain safe vehicle operations.
• List and assess strategies to apply in the field that improve patient safety.
• Identify strategies to ensure practitioner safety.
• Strengthen resilience skills and focus on personal health to combat both chronic and critical incident stress.

Topics covered include:

• How safety impacts patients and practitioners, from maintaining a culture of safety in changing situations to communication and documentation strategies.
• Crew resource management in EMS, modeling effective communication, maintaining situational awareness, and a being an effective member of a team.
• Emergency vehicle safety including maintenance and inspection considerations, responsibilities of due regard, defensive driving techniques, and common causes of vehicle collisions and strategies to avoid them.
• Safety in the roadway, including multi-agency pre-planning, vehicle and practitioner visibility techniques, and defensive staging practices.
• Patient safety, strategies to identify and prevent common patient errors, just culture, and safe handling techniques for all patients.
• Practitioner safety, situational awareness, and verbal, physical, and chemical techniques to deescalate potential threats.
• Injury and infection prevention and control.
• Practitioner personal health, resilience skills, and ensuring personal readiness for the daily challenges and hazards of working in the field.

EMS Safety is offered as an 8-hour classroom course and is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners, other medical professionals providing prehospital patient care, and EMS supervisors and administrators. Students who successfully complete the course receive a certificate of completion and a wallet card good for 4 years. EMS Safety is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.

• Wednesday, July 10, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (9 seats left)Online

HeartSaver Instructor

Do you hold a current AHA HeartSaver First Aid, CPR/AED provider certification? Are you interested in teaching First Aid and CPR to others? If you answered yes to both questions, then the Instructor Program is the right program to meet your needs. 

The Instructor Program is intended for any individual, currently certified in HeartSaver First Aid/CPR/AED, who wishes to become an instructor Heartsaver First CPR/AED classes. This is a multi-part program which includes online training, classroom training, student teaching, and observation. 

All Materials required for the course are inlcuded in DIGITAL format. You can choose to change it to print materials via the course add on spot. As a note the paper instructor manuals are sent as 3-whole punched paper without a binder from the AHA.

Included in Cost:

• HeartSaver Instructor Essentials
• HeartSaver Digital Instructor Manual 
• HeartSaver Digital Provider Manual
• Initial Monitoring

Pre-Requisites:

• Be at least 18 years of age.

• Be aligned with an AHA TC/TS (You can align with us, we do not charge for alignment.

• Have a current AHA HeartSaver First Aid/CPR/AED Provider Course Completion Card (if exprired or about to expire and cannot attend a renewal, click on the Heartsaver HeartCode  on the add on's. You will be expected to show up 45 mintues prior to start of class for skills.)

• Be proficient in the skills of First Aid CPR/AED

• Successfully complete the online portion of the instructor’s essentials.

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Course overview

Intended Audience

Individuals without prior instructor training wishing to become an HSI authorized instructor.

Prerequisites

Individuals at least 17 years old who hold current provider certification and/or demonstrated competency in layperson adult, child, and infant CPR, AED, and first aid.

Successful Completion

Successful completion of the IDC by itself does not authorize an instructor candidate to conduct HSI training courses and issue certification cards. Candidates who have successfully completed the IDC must affiliate with an approved Training Center which will submit an application for instructor authorization. Instructor candidates can also establish their own Training Center

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This is a VILT using Zoom, you MUST have a camera and microphone for the course, and it must remain on for the entire time.

Due to the difficult environments EMS personnel encounter every day, and the experience of both direct and vicarious trauma, the EMS workforce faces significant challenges in maintaining mental health resilience.

The Mental Health Resilience Officer (MHRO) course assists agencies in building and supporting the mental health of their personnel by preparing a member of their team to serve as their agency’s Mental Health Resilience Officer. In this role, MHROs engage with peers to develop an understanding of mental health issues and resilience; identify peers who are experiencing mental health stressors and crises; navigate peers in need to the right services for help; and support the development of a culture of mental health resilience and emotional wellness within the agency.

THIS COURSE COVERS:

• The role of a Mental Health Resilience Officer
• The impact of EMS work on mental health and emotional well-being Mental health resilience at the individual, interpersonal, and agency level
• Communication strategies to engage EMS colleagues regarding mental health issues
• Case studies in EMS mental health
• Key elements of an effective agency EMS mental health resilience program
• How to build or strengthen an agency mental health resilience program
• Resources to support the MHRO

Suggested qualifications for the course include:

• At a minimum, current state certification or license as an EMT
• At least 3 years of full-time practice (or equivalent) at the EMT level or above
• Strong interpersonal communications skills with an interest in serving in this position
• Prior experience with critical incident stress debriefing (CISD) and/or motivational interviewing preferred.

8-hour classroom course for EMS practitioners at all levels. Upon successful course completion, students receive a certificate and a card recognizing them as an MHRO provider for 4 years, and 8 hours of CAPCE credit. The course also includes a digital resource guide.

• Monday, June 17, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (19 seats left)Zoom

NAEMT's Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. The mission of PHTLS is to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care.  PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma. The Committee provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program. 

PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. The course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics:

• Physiology of life and death
• Scene assessment
• Patient assessment
• Airway
• Breathing, ventilation and oxygenation
• Circulation, hemorrhage and shock
• Patients with disabilities
• Patient simulations

PHTLS is the global gold standard in prehospital trauma education and is taught in 64 countries. PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital providers. PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.

• Monday, June 24, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (6 seats left)Cordial Fire/EMS Education

• Thursday, June 27, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, July 25, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, August 29, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, October 24, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, November 28, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, December 26, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, January 30, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, February 27, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom
• Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PMZoom

Online EMS Instructor Course is intended for EMS professionals wishing to teach CE or initial training. Students will learn how to create effective quizzes and testing material, informative presentations and teaching skills for the modern work atmosphere. This course is designed to meet the needs of Texas EMS personnel. It is based on the 2002 standards set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). 

• Purchase this course - $285.00