Calhoun Community College

 

American Heart Association

 Training Center

 

The following links will be useful to all of Calhoun Community College’s TC instructors.  Please take advantage of these and notify me if you have any ideas about other useful information that could be posted.  Check the Instructor update section frequently for local updates and changes as well as instructor update information directly from the American Heart Association.

 

 

Effective August 1, 2006 payment is due at the time the rosters are submitted.  No invoices will be mailed.  I am sorry for this change.  Cards will be issued once payment is received.  Thanks....Mark

 

Forms:

Course Completion Sheet

 

Blank Rosters

(Please print in Landscape layout)

 

Liability Statement

 

 

 

Current Education Update:

 

 

Check out the Spring 2006 edition of AHA Currents for the most up to date information about changes in the CPR curriculum.  Come by the TC office or click the following link to register for Currents.

 

 

 

 

 

Instructor Updates and News:

 

 

  • Effective August 1, 2006 payment is due at the time the rosters are submitted.  No invoices will be mailed.  I am sorry for this change.  Cards will be issued once payment is received.  Thanks....Mark

 

  • Heartsaver Exam Memo.  For all heartsaver classes, once you have verified skills, a card can be issued.  There are NO exams with these new programs as of 06/01/06. 

 

  • Update from AHA on the core instructor's class.  You DO NOT have to take this class if you are a current instructor!!!!  Only new instructors, Training Center Faculty, Regional Faculty, and BLS instructors that wish to become ACLS or PALS instructors must take this course before July 1, 2006.  Click here to read the memo released by AHA on this change.

 

Its Instructor Update Time!!!  All AHA Instructor must go through a discipline specific rollout class before June 1, 2006 according to AHA guidelines.  If you miss the rollout deadline, you are still an instructor, but cards cannot be issued until you have attended one of these sessions.  You DO NOT have to attend a Calhoun TC update class if this does not fit your schedule.  If this is the case, you can attend any TC update class and mail or fax a copy of your AHA certificate to me to be filed. 

 

If you missed the update classes you need to contact Mark in the Calhoun Training Center Office as soon as possible!!!   We have to get you through a science update ASAP.  Cards WILL NOT be issued to you until this course is complete!

 

·     As of January 2, 2006 you are required to have the students read and sign the Liability Statement Form prior to starting your class.  The form should be submitted to the TC office with your roster and course evaluation forms.  It will be kept on file in the TC office with your other paperwork. Thank you!

 

·     The following disclaimer MUST be printed on all TC promotional brochures, announcements, agendas, or other materials distributed to students in courses for which fees are charged:

 

The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in BLS, ACLS, and PALS and has developed instructional materials for this purpose.  Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the American Heart Association.  Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course material, do not represent income to the association.

 

·     An updated course completion sheet has been posted.  Please start using this form ASAP.

 

·     Remember to use to correct decontamination solution on all equipment before returning it to the TC office.  Thanks for all of your help and hard work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact:

 

Calhoun Community College

EMS Program

Mark S. Branon, BS, NREMT-P

PO Box 2216

Decatur, AL 35609-2216

 

Office:  (256) 306-2854

Fax:  (256) 306-2909

Email: msb@calhoun.edu