American Red Cross launches Resuscitation Education Suite
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The American Red Cross launched its new resuscitation education program that meets certification and licensing requirements for healthcare, EMS and other public safety professionals.
The program consists of Basic Life Support (BLS), AdvancedLife Support (ALS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) courses thatleverage the latest learning technologies to surpass current available options.
Innovative learning methodology advances include:
- Online adaptive learning, which allowsparticipants to customize their learning path and save up to 50 percent ofinstruction time by using pre-assessments to test out of content alreadymastered.
- Actual physicians, nurses and other healthcarestaff in hospital settings who use critical thinking, decision-making andteaming concepts in videos and simulations.
- The ability to access online content on anycomputer, tablet or mobile device anywhere, anytime - enhancing learnerefficiency.
- Enhanced ADA compliant materials making this aninclusive resuscitation curriculum.
“The Red Cross curriculum reduces instruction time,organizational costs and improves resuscitation outcomes,” said DavidMarkenson, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FCCM, FACHE, chair of the Red Cross ScientificAdvisory Council and First Aid Task Force member of the International LiaisonCommittee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). “The Red Cross is proud that this newcurriculum has been adopted by the Military Health System and Department ofDefense (DoD). To date, more than 9,000 of their instructors and 30,000students have been certified using the new curriculum. By year-end, we expectmore than 250,000 to be certified.”
The American Red Cross and HealthStream have signed along-term agreement to work together to improve resuscitation outcomes inhealthcare organizations. As part of this collaboration, the program provides afundamental element of HealthStream’s overall resuscitation solution forhospitals and healthcare professionals. The Red Cross Resuscitation Suiteprogram, which is now available on HealthStream’s platform, offerscertification to hospital-based healthcare professionals.
