BLS Instructor study guide questions and answers

What is a prerequisite to becoming an AHA Instructor? - Be aligned with a Training Center As an instructor, you would use the Program Administration Manual for which of the following? - Policy, ethics, and Training Center organization Which provides AHA Instructors with access to the Program Administration Manual? - The AHA Instructor Network You are a BLS Instructor and want to add the AHA logo to a flyer advertising a BLS course that you will be offering. What instructor resource would you use to find out if this is allowed? - The Program Administration Manual You're going to be teaching in an unfamiliar facility. As part of your preparation, you arrive an hour early to set up the room because the room was unavailable the day before. Which action would be considered inappropriate or unprofessional? - Waiting for students to arrive so that they can assist in setting up the classroom As an AHA Instructor, when do you complete a course roster? - As students arrive to the course What are the AHA core competencies for instructor candidates? - Skills, course delivery, testing, professionalism, and program administration You are going to teach a BLS Provider Course and need to check that all equipment is in good condition and is working. In what step of the AHA Instruction Cycle would you complete this action? - Prepare What are the 5 steps of the AHA Instruction Cycle? - Prepare, teach, test and remediate, close, and keep current What is the AHA Instructor Network? - A resource for all instructors that includes information about AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care programs and science Why is it important to use the skills testing checklist during skills testing? - To have an objective method for evaluating skills performance Which describes a primary purpose of Lesson Plans? - To ensure that the course is taught the way it was designed You are teaching a BLS Provider Course with one other instructor and have 8 students in your class. What is the minimum number of manikins that you must have to teach the course? - 3 manikins You are teaching the HeartCode BLS Course in the blended-learning format. Students have taken the online course and are now coming into the classroom for the hands-on session. After collecting the students' online certificates, what should you do? - Follow the directions on the blended-learning Lesson Plans for student skills practice and testing A student fails to get the correct depth and rate of compressions on the infant skills test. You show him the skills testing checklist and which steps he didn't pass, and then you coach him through practice. On a second attempt, the rate is better, but the depth and recoil are wrong. What should you do? - You are teaching a Heartsaver course at a manufacturing warehouse that uses highly corrosive chemicals. Before class, the manager shows you the in-house policies about managing electricity, electrical burns, and chemical burns and asks you to use the in-house materials to teach during the burns section of the course. How can you incorporate the materials into the course? - Present the in-house information at the end of the course, specifying that the material is not from the AHA