The Heartcode Complete Program, developed by the American Heart Association (AHA), delivers quality training designed to help healthcare providers maintain mastery and competency in delivering life-saving patient care.
The AHA developed the Heartcode Complete Program to replace outdated, infrequent training with a more effective system. Traditional in-person CPR training every two years often led to skill decay, leaving providers less prepared in real emergencies. Heartcode Complete was created to provide a standardized course and skills testing that helps healthcare providers maintain competency, improve performance, and ultimately save more lives.
Heartcode Complete training is required for healthcare providers such as nurses, doctors, EMTs, paramedics, and other clinical staff who must maintain life-saving resuscitation skills as part of their professional role.
The online course (Part 1) typically takes between 30 minutes and 4 hours to complete, depending on the type of class and the participant’s pace and prior experience.
The Heartcode Complete program offers several key benefits for healthcare providers:
- Keeps skills fresh: Frequent practice prevents skill decay.
- Short sessions: Training sessions last approximately 30 minutes each.
- Real-time feedback: Mistakes are corrected immediately for effective learning.
- Mastery learning: Participants practice until they achieve the required competency.
A Voice-Assisted Manikin is a training dummy that gives audio and visual feedback during CPR practice. It helps learners improve their hand placement, compression depth, and breathing technique. VAM is often used in blended learning courses, like HeartCode programs.
VAM is a tool that provides immediate feedback during practice, helping verify skills. RQI, on the other hand, is a comprehensive training system that includes quarterly practice, mastery learning, and performance tracking to help maintain skills over time.
CPRVAM follows the VAM model because traditional BLS, ACLS, and PALS training, conducted every two years, can be very time-consuming and not very flexible with your schedule. The VAM model is very flexible, allowing healthcare workers to complete the course around their schedule.
