CPR / First Aid Courses

Available Courses

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course trains participants to provide first aid, CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who should take this course?

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

What does this course teach?

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
  • Child CPR AED and Infant CPR

$80 per person

The Heartsaver Total course path of the Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Online course is taught in a blended learning format. Students must complete the online portion, followed by the hands-on skills session conducted by an American Heart Association Training Center Instructor. Students who successfully complete the online course and skills session (sold separately), will receive a Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course Completion card, valid for two years.

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED provides students the highest quality training in the lifesaving skills of first aid, CPR, and use of an AED. This course empowers students to act with confidence in the event of an emergency at work, home, or in the community.

The Heartsaver Total – Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Online is a comprehensive course path designed for those requiring training to meet OSHA or other regulatory agency requirements.

$90 per person

The Heartsaver CPR AED course trains participants to give CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who should take this course?

The AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

What does this course teach?

  • Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
  • Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
  • Recognize when someone needs CPR
  • Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
  • Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
  • Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
  • Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
  • Perform high-quality CPR for a child
  • Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child
  • Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
  • Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
  • Demonstrate how to help a choking infant

$50 per person

AHA Heartsaver CPR/AED Blended Online

AHA Heartsaver CPR/AED blended online is a Web-based, self-directed program. The program teaches students critical skills and knowledge needed to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. Content includes how to perform CPR and use an AED.

At the completion of the online portion of this course, a in-person skills examination is required.

$90 per person

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course trains participants to provide first aid, CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who should take this course?

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

What does this course teach?

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
  • Child CPR AED and Infant CPR

$80 per person

The Heartsaver Total course path of the Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Online course is taught in a blended learning format. Students must complete the online portion, followed by the hands-on skills session conducted by an American Heart Association Training Center Instructor. Students who successfully complete the online course and skills session (sold separately), will receive a Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course Completion card, valid for two years.

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED provides students the highest quality training in the lifesaving skills of first aid, CPR, and use of an AED. This course empowers students to act with confidence in the event of an emergency at work, home, or in the community.

The Heartsaver Total – Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Online is a comprehensive course path designed for those requiring training to meet OSHA or other regulatory agency requirements.

$90 per person

The Heartsaver First Aid course trains participants first aid basics for the most common first aid emergencies, including how to recognize them, how to call for help, and how to perform lifesaving skills. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) and the 2015 AHA/Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid.

Who should take this course?

The AHA Heartsaver First Aid Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

What does this course teach?

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury

$50 per person

El curso de primeros auxilios con RCP y DEA en español es un curso presencial, video guiado y dirigido para personas con minimo o ningun conocimiento medico.

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Basic Wilderness First Aid

An intensive 8- to 10-hour course for those who are involved in wilderness recreation. This course may also meet the needs of volunteers and professionals who lead groups on short trips in relatively low-risk situations. $125 – Group rates available.

$125 per person

Wilderness First Aid

A 16- to 20-hour course for those who are involved in serious wilderness activities. This course is the choice of many wilderness trip leaders and guides. $250 – Group rates available.

$250 per person

Wilderness First Responder

A 60- to 80-hour course for wilderness professionals and others who want a higher level of training or require WFR certification. $675 – Group rates available.

$675 per person

Wilderness EMT Upgrade

A 40-hour course for those who are already certified as EMTs. The course builds on EMT training and adds wilderness concepts and skills with many role-playing scenarios. $425 – Group rates available.

$425 per person

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Frequently Asked Questions

CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Basically, it works out like this –

Cardio = heart
Pulmonary = lungs
Resuscitate = revive


CPR literally means reviving a person’s heart and lungs. It’s your heart’s job to keep pumping oxygen-rich blood out from your lungs and into the rest of your body. It’s your lungs’ job to take in oxygen, which is used as a means to fuel the rest of your body.

Some of the things that can trip either of the organs up in their duties of moving oxygen through your body include choking, suffocation, or a heart attack. If either one stops working, you have a problem, and that’s where CPR can come in.

The goal of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is to both simulate the breathing of a person’s lungs and the pumping of their heart. It’s made up of 2 main parts: rescue breathing and chest compressions. Rescue breathing involves exhaling air from your lungs into the other person’s so their body can absorb all the oxygen. Chest compressions involve manually pressing down on the person’s chest to compress the heart and get the blood flowing again.

Columbia Safety CPR provides training courses that, upon successful completion, provide you with your American Heart Association or American Red Cross CPR certification.

It’s easy to get certified in CPR from a certification and training program such as ours, you can either come to our training center located in Kennewick, WA, or we can come to you. We serve universities, businesses, schools, and more throughout Southeast Washington, and Northeast Oregon. 

Aside from the obvious ability to help a person in an emergency situation, CPR and First Aid training can help teach you exactly how to determine the victim’s needs at the moment, what signs to look for in a heart attack or choking episode, and how best to treat some sudden illnesses.

You can find a complete list of our available courses, office locations, and schedules on our classes page. We are also available to come to your office or place of business to offer more personalized courses! If you are ready to move from asking “What is CPR?” to “How can I learn and become CPR certified”, contact one of our staff professionals and schedule a class today! 

Heartsaver CPR is a general course and can be taken by anyone. BLS is a CPR class typically required for healthcare professionals.

If you are a daycare provider, caring for a loved one, or would like to learn CPR skills then the Heartsaver CPR class is probably best for you. If you are a healthcare professional working in the hospital or ems the BLS course is typically required.

No, first aid is not included in the AHA’s BLS courses. That is a separate certification.

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