AHA Heartsaver® Instructor Certification

The AHA Heartsaver® Instructor Course is a blended-learning (online and in-person) program. Students who take the Instructor Course (Instructor Candidates) must be a current Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Provider, complete an online Heartsaver® Instructor Essentials Online course, participate in a live, in-person instructor class and be monitored by an instructor trainer (Training Faculty).

The course content includes:

- AHA Heartsaver® materials

- Heartsaver® Blended Learning

- Required equipment and decontamination

- Organization of an AHA class

- AHA materials, and how they improve student retention

- The AHA Instructor Network website

- AHA exams and skills testing

- Completing your instructor certification

- Renewing your instructor certification 

- Must be at least 18 years old

- Must be AHA Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED certified with current (not expired) eCard

- Must be proficient in Heartsaver® skills (Adult, Child & Infant CPR AED)

- Must complete the Heartsaver® Instructor Essentials Online course

1. Have a current AHA Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED eCard.

2. Complete online precourse assignment (Heartsaver® Instructor Essentials Online).

3. Review Heartsaver® Instructor Manual and Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Student Workbook.

4. Complete Live, In-Person Instructor Class with one of our exceptional Training Faculty (Instructor Trainers).

5. Be monitored by Training Faculty within ninety (90) days or sooner of attending the Instructor Class.

Once you are a certified AHA Heartsaver® Instructor, your certification is valid for two (2) years.

1. Current AHA Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED eCard = 3-6 hours

2. Heartsaver® Instructor Essentials Online = 1-2 hours

3. Review Heartsaver® Instructor Manual and Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Student Workbook = varies

4. Live, In-Person Instructor Class = 6-7 hours

5. Be monitored by Training Faculty = 5-7 hours

Total Time Commitment = 15-23 hours

- AHA Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Student Workbook Textbook -or- eBook

- AHA Heartsaver® Instructor Manual Textbook -or- eBook

- Heartsaver® Instructor Essentials Online Course

- AHA Heartsaver Instructor Course = $309.99

- AHA Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Student Workbook Textbook -or- eBook

- AHA Heartsaver® Instructor Manual Textbook -or- eBook

- Heartsaver® Instructor Essentials Online Course

- Government-Issued Photo Identification (Proof that you are at least 18 years old),

- Current Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED eCard,

- Certificate from Heartsaver® Instructor Essentials Online course,

- AHA Instructor Candidate Application.

Any person participating in any AHA Instructor Course must be aligned with an AHA-Authorized Training Center. When you register for the Heartsaver® Instructor Course with APHE TC, you are automatically aligned with APHE TC.

Each Instructor Candidate is required to teach a class while being monitored by an instructor trainer (AHA Training Faculty) within ninety (90) days or less after the instructor class. The Training Faculty is evaluating use of required AHA materials, course delivery, feedback from Instructor Candidate to students, testing of students, and professionalism of Instructor Candidate. 

Once the monitored class and the required documentation is successfully completed, an AHA Heartsaver® Instructor certification (eCard) is issued to the now-certified AHA Heartsaver® Instructor.  

- AHA Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED,

- AHA Heartsaver® Pediatric First Aid CPR AED,

- AHA Heartsaver® Bloodborne Pathogens,

- AHA Family & Friends® CPR.

Once you are a certified AHA Heartsaver Instructor, your certification is valid for two (2) years. To recertify, you must:

1. Teach at least four (4) total of a combination of the following: 

• Heartsaver First Aid and/or CPR AED, and/or
• Heartsaver Skills Session
• = 4-16 hours

2. Complete BLS Provider Exam = 0.5-1 hour

3. Review APHE TC Update Video = 1 hour

4. Be monitored teaching (in-person or virtually) by Training Faculty = 1-3 hours

5. Complete renewal documentation = 0.5-1 hour

Total Ongoing Time Commitment (every two years) = 7-22 hours