Training schedule

This is a hybrid course that lasts approximately 16 weeks. You will be required to complete class via an interactive classroom and there will be online activities. There will be an online lecture (weekly after the first start date, which is IN class), which will be recorded and will allow you to review. There will be weekly skill sessions (weekly after the first week noted on the schedule, up to course completion).

The AHA’s PEARS (Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization) Course has been updated to reflect science in the 2015 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC. In this classroom-based, Instructor-led course, students learn how to use a systematic approach to quickly assess, recognize the cause, and stabilize a pediatric patient in an emergency situation.

"ACLS is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes personnel in emergenc response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units. The American Heart Association’s ACLS Course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced, instructor-led classroom course highlights the

The PALS Course is for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children. These include personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units, such as physicians, nurses, paramedics and others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirement

This course provides the critical concepts of high-quality CPR. Teaches the AHA Chain of Survival and 1- and 2-rescuer CPR/AED for Adult/Child/Infant. Shows the differences between Adult, Child and Infant rescue techniques. Teaches bag-mask techniques for Adult, Child and Infant, Rescue breathing for Adult, Child and Infant, Relief of choking for Adult, Child, and Infant and Intro to CPR with an Advanced Airway

Introductory CPR and AED Training for Non-Medical Professionals

Basic First-Aid course for non-Medical Providers

First Aid, CPR, and AED Training for non-Medical Providers

First Aid, CPR, and AED for K-12 Faculty and Staff Only

The American Heart Association Heart Saver Instructor Course is designed to provide instructor candidates the knowledge and skills necessary to teach lay providers all Heart Saver Courses.

Pediatric First Aid, CPR, and AED Training for the Non-Medical Provider.

The American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor Course is designed to provide instructor candidates the knowledge and skills necessary to teach pediatric advanced life support providers.

The American Heart Association Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition, and Stabilization Instructor Course is designed to provide instructor candidates the knowledge and skills necessary to teach pediatric basic and advanced life support providers.

This course provides instructor candidates with the knowledge and skills necessary to teach Basic Life Support (BLS) courses for health care providers and lay rescuers. BLS Instructors may teach the BLS for Health Care Providers and Heartsaver-level courses including Heartsaver CPR, Heartsaver AED, Heartsaver CPR in Schools, and CPR for Family and Friends.

The competency based paramedic course follows the 2009 National EMS Education Standards and consists of at least 1,100 hours of classroom instruction, laboratory, clinical and field rotations through the Lowcountry Region. In addition students will complete provider level courses in trauma, advance cardiac life support, and advance level pediatric life support. The course will prepare students to participate in the National Registry Paramedic exam.

Principles of Ethics and Personal Leadership (PEPL) is a 16-hour course that provides EMS and Mobile Healthcare (MHC) practitioners at all levels with the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively interact with patients and their families, other medical personnel, co-workers, supervisors and community residents at large.

This course is offered in partnership with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to satisfy the DHEC EMT Program Orientation requirement for new instructors.

A two day course designed to prepare the attendee for assuming the important role of Infection Control Officer.

This one day course is designed to build on the information from the Basic course. Seminar style problem solving. Update on diseases and legal issues, review of multi-drug resistant organisms, MRSA, VRE, C-diff, H1N1 and the vaccine, Norovirus, MERS and Ebola virus.

This program will meet OSHA required annual update training on bloodborne pathogens & Air-borne and Droplet Transmitted Diseases. Other topics will include the new hand hygiene guidelines, new TB guidelines, clarifying HBV vaccine issues, HCV risk issues/treatment & OSHA citation/fine information.

This course will meet the OSHA requirement for your becoming a qualified trainer for your department. This course meets the statement – certificate of additional specialized training.

International Trauma Life Support for Paramedics and Advanced EMS Providers is a 16-hour comprehensive course covering the skills necessary for rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization and transportation of trauma patients

The program is based on a prehospital trauma care philosophy, stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs.

This course will cover the NCCP 2016 National Component for EMT-B recertification. Does not cover the local/state or individual components.

This course will cover the NCCP 2016 National Component for EMT-A recertification. Does not cover the local/state or individual components.

This course will cover the NCCP 2016 National Component for NRP recertification. Does not cover the local/state or individual components.

The EMS Instructor Training Program focuses on those skills necessary to successfully present any of the Certificate EMS courses (EMT, AEMT, Paramedic, CEP) and meets the SCDHEC Requirements for Instructional Methods.

Psychomotor Exam for EMT Basic