Class Enrollment

Becoming an American Heart Association instructor is easy after consulting with an American Heart Association Training Center to find out whether the Training Center (TC) is accepting new instructors and the TCC's (Training Center Coordinator) preferred course delivery.

The steps are simple – get started today!

1. Be accepted by your local AHA Training Center before enrolling in an Instructor Course and have a completed Instructor Candidate Application on file with that Training Center
2. Have current AHA provider status in the discipline for that Instructor Course and be proficient in all the skills of that discipline. Disciplines include ACLS, BLS, PALS, PEARS and Heartsaver.
3. Complete the Online Instructor Essentials course
4. Successfully complete the discipline-specific classroom Instructor Course.
5. Successfully be monitored teaching your first course within six months of completing the discipline-specific classroom Instructor Course. Training Center Coordinators can require additional monitoring.

BLS Instructor Course Outline
Approximate course duration: 5 to 7.5 hours

• AHA Mission
• Global Mission
• ECC Mission
• Overview of Instructor Competencies
• Program Administration Manual
• Instructor Network
• TC-Specific Policies
• BLS Science Updates
• BLS Product and Course Orientation
• High-Performance Teams Activity
• Skills Testing Checklist and Remediation
• Heartsaver Courses
• Effective Instructor Behaviors
• Poor Instructor Behaviors
• Instructor Exam