AHA Friends & Family Training Courses
The AHA Heartsaver® Friends & Family course is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. Students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies.
Friends & Family courses are perfect for large groups that are short on time, but want to learn these important life-saving skills. Friends & Family courses do not come with the same certification HeartSaver CPR/AED and First Aid courses provide, but participants still leave with valuable knowledge!
This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory or other requirements. This course is perfect for those short on time, but with the desire to learn important skills!
- Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
- First aid basics
- Medical emergencies
- Injury emergencies
- Environmental emergencies
- Optional written test
Classroom-based (instructor and video, with skills conducted throughout)
- Video-based course ensures consistency
- Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency
- Student manual
- Course is updated with the new science
Upon completion of this course, students receive an American Heart Association Heartsaver Friends & Family Course Completion Card that is valid for two years.
During the course, an AHA Instructor conducts video-based lessons and works with students to complete their first aid skills practice and testing.
