Attentive Safety News

​Attentive Safety is dedicated to providing nurses with the best ACLS Provider training available. Our comprehensive training program covers all the necessary skills and knowledge required for nurses to become certified ACLS Providers. We provide experienced instructors, up-to-date curriculum, and an interactive learning environment that allows nurses to develop their skills quickly and confidently. Our goal is to ensure that our participants are able to pass the certification exam and become competent providers of Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS).

​Attentive Safety provides BLS Provider training for Certified Nurse Midwives. This training is designed to provide Certified Nurse Midwives with the knowledge to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve adult, child and infant choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.
Certified Nurse Midwives should have a firm grasp of fundamental CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) concepts. With CPR training for Certified Nurse Midwives, Attentive Safety CPR and Safety Training is the best place to receive quality, comprehensive instruction. CPR certification for Certified Nurse Midwives is a great way to expand your knowledge and more importantly, save lives.

Register: www.attentivesafety.com/bls-midwives.html

Registered Nurses should have a firm grasp of fundamental CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) concepts. With CPR training for Registered Nurses, Attentive Safety CPR and Safety Training is the best place to receive quality, comprehensive instruction. CPR certification for Registered Nurses is a great way to expand your knowledge and more importantly, save lives. ​

Register: ​https://www.attentivesafety.com/bls-rn.html

Attentive Safety offers ​Construction Worker Group First Aid CPR AED Training for five or more people at your location in Irondale, Alabama​. This training is essential for those who need to recognize and manage emergencies and work directly in Construction.  The classroom course can be completed in approximately 2 ¼ hours (including optional lessons and breaks). We have a 1 student to 1 manikin ratio. This enables a hands-on, knowledge-based process that also makes for shorter class times. 
Register: www.attentivesafety.com/construction-irondale.html

Attentive Safety offers ​Construction Worker Group First Aid CPR AED Training for five or more people at your location in Marietta, Georgia. This training is essential for those who need to recognize and manage emergencies and work directly in Construction.  The classroom course can be completed in approximately 2 ¼ hours (including optional lessons and breaks). We have a 1 student to 1 manikin ratio. This enables a hands-on, knowledge-based process that also makes for shorter class times. 
Register: www.attentivesafety.com/construction-marietta.html

Attentive Safety offers ​Security Guard Group First Aid CPR AED Training for five or more people at your location in Doraville, Georgia​. This training is essential for those who need to recognize and manage emergencies and work directly in Security.  The classroom course can be completed in approximately 2 ¼ hours (including optional lessons and breaks). We have a 1 student to 1 manikin ratio. This enables a hands-on, knowledge-based process that also makes for shorter class times. 
Register: www.attentivesafety.com/security-marietta.html

Attentive Safety offers ​Security Guard Group First Aid CPR AED Training for five or more people at your location in Irondale, Alabama. This training is essential for those who need to recognize and manage emergencies and work directly in Security.  The classroom course can be completed in approximately 2 ¼ hours (including optional lessons and breaks). We have a 1 student to 1 manikin ratio. This enables a hands-on, knowledge-based process that also makes for shorter class times. 
Register: www.attentivesafety.com/security-irondale.html

Attentive Safety offers ​Security Guard Group First Aid CPR AED Training for five or more people at your location in Marietta, Georgia​. This training is essential for those who need to recognize and manage emergencies and work directly in Security.  The classroom course can be completed in approximately 2 ¼ hours (including optional lessons and breaks). We have a 1 student to 1 manikin ratio. This enables a hands-on, knowledge-based process that also makes for shorter class times. 
Register Online: www.attentivesafety.com/security-marietta.html

​Immediate CPR can increase chances of survival after cardiac arrest. Every year, 350,000 people die from cardiac arrest in the United States. Big number. Bigger opportunity. With your help, we can bring that number down to zero.

​Learn CPR With Attentive Safety® - Flexible Classes for Your Schedule. ​www.attentivesafety.com/cpr-aed.html

CPR – or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating. Immediate CPR can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest.

Learn CPR With Attentive Safety® - Flexible Classes for Your Schedule. ​www.attentivesafety.com/cpr-aed.html

​​Attentive Safety offers the AHA BLS Provider (CPR and AED) course ​for Dental Hygienists 7 days a week. ​
The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED.
Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a course completion card, valid for two years.
You may register for a class here: www.attentivesafety.com/cpr-training-for-dental-hygienists.html

​Dental hygienists shall maintain at all times during licensure and furnish to the Board, upon request, current certification in one and two rescuer CPR and management of obstructed airway for adults, children and infants as taught by the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, the American Safety and Health Institute, the National Safety Council, EMS Safety Services, or other such agencies approved by the Board. Current certification is a condition for license renewal. Failure to maintain current CPR certification may serve as grounds to deny the renewal of a license and may also result in disciplinary action against the licensee. In response to an audit request, a dental hygienist shall be required to produce proof of CPR certification during the biennium for which the audit is being conducted.

Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 150-5-.04
Georgia Board of Dentistry

Attentive Safety provides onsite Group Child Care CPR, AED and Basic First Aid Training to groups of 5 or more people. Attentive Safety is the leader in Group Child Care CPR, AED and Basic First Aid Training certification classes. Our Group Child Care CPR, AED and Basic First Aid Training is approximately 2 1/4 hours to complete, including skills practice and skills testing. We have a 1 student to 1 manikin ratio. This enables a hands-on, knowledge-based process that also makes for shorter class times. Learn more and sign up at: www.attentivesafety.com/childcare-group-cpr-training.html

CPR – or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating. Immediate CPR can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest.

Every year, 475,000 people die from cardiac arrest in the United States. Big number. Bigger opportunity. With your help, we can bring that number down to zero.
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Why Is CPR Important?
Keeping the blood flow active – even partially – extends the opportunity for a successful resuscitation once trained medical staff arrive on site.

Learn more and/ or sign up for training at: www.attentivesafety.com/

In the US, overall survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) dropped by 14% in 2020 compared with 2019 (10.5% to 9.0%) and bystander CPR decreased by 2% (41.2% to 40.2%), according to the 2020 Annual Report presented by the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES).

COVID-19's impact on CPR practices in the US is reflected in the national dataset collected and presented in the report by CARES. The organization helps communities measure standard outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, allowing for local quality improvement and benchmarking capability to improve care and survival. 

To learn more about CPR and Safety Training, visit: www.attentivesafety.com/

​This week, the AHA published new interim CPR guidance for healthcare professionals who treat cardiac arrest patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. This latest guidance serves as an update to the 2020 Interim CPR guidance that AHA issued in April 2020.

AHA volunteers reassessed the 2020 Interim CPR guidance considering the evolving nature of the pandemic and increased knowledge about COVID-19. Both resuscitation scientists and healthcare professionals now have a better understanding of COVID-19’s transmissibility. The supply of PPE has stabilized. And an increasing number of both healthcare workers and members of the general public are becoming vaccinated.

These factors contributed to the new recommendations in the updated guidance titled, “2021 Interim Guidance to Healthcare Providers for Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Adults, Children, and Neonates with Suspected or Confirmed Covid-19,” which is now available in the AHA journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

AHA collaborated with the following organizations on the guidance: American Academy of Pediatrics; American Association for Respiratory Care; American College of Emergency Physicians; The Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists; and American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Please note that the updated guidance doesn’t impact CPR training.

What is new?

The 2020 Interim Guidance covered the use of PPE, addressed early intubation, and prioritized oxygenation and ventilation strategies with lower aerosolization risk. The latest guidance includes the following changes:

• New COVID-19 algorithms that incorporate the 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC
  • The COVID-19 algorithms differ from the algorithms in the 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC by indicating what steps are potentially aerosol-generating procedures and providing suggestions for how to reduce potential risks to healthcare providers who are performing CPR.
• A COVID-19 maternal cardiac arrest algorithm
• Emphasis on providing chest compressions without delay or interruption and defibrillating as soon as possible
• Clarity on when to use PPE and more details on which procedures generate aerosols

In recent months, there has been a spike in cases and hospitalizations attributed to the Delta variant across the globe. Some of this latest guidance should apply to any of the most recent variants that have emerged, according to Dr. Antony Hsu, the chair of the writing group that worked on this new statement.

​Additionally, Dr. Hsu and Dr. Morgan discuss the guidance in a podcast available via the ECC Digital Digest.

Attentive Safety CPR and Safety Training offers several CPR training options that enable healthcare providers to provide safe, high-quality CPR training during the pandemic.

​Training has become even more critical to keep staff CPR competent and save lives.

Learn more about Attentive Safety’s flexible options for training in the age of social distancing: 

• 1 to 1 manikin ratio
• 6 feet social distancing
• On-site training at your home, business, medical office, church, or school
• CPR classes held day and night to accommodate your busy schedule

Attentiveness matters for safety. During this crisis, our goal is to help healthcare organizations continue delivering lifesaving CPR education and training to keep staff current and competent, and to overcome any backlog of learners. ​
 
Please review our attentivesafety.com webpage for a full overview of CPR training options and tools.

Many healthcare providers are working outside their usual roles as they help treat COVID-19 patients in a challenging environment where CPR skills have become more crucial. Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine has shown that in-hospital cardiac arrest is common among severely ill COVID-19 patients, particularly older individuals, who are likely to have poor survival outcomes.
 
CPR Training for healthcare providers plays a critical role in ensuring that providers perform CPR correctly to improve patient outcomes and stay up to date on resuscitation practices and protocols.
 
Attentiveness matters for safety. During this crisis, our goal is to help healthcare organizations continue delivering lifesaving CPR education and training to keep staff current and competent, and to overcome any backlog of learners. ​
 
Please review our attentivesafety.com webpage for a full overview of CPR training options and tools.

​Now more than ever, it’s important to empower the public to learn CPR as more people are staying at home or working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we know, about 70% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in homes. To help save lives, CPR training has become even more critical. Therefore, it’s crucial that everyone refresh their CPR training and stay up to date on their CPR skills and knowledge. Sign up to Learn CPR and how to use an AED at https://www.attentivesafety.com/ashi-cpr-and-aed.html

Attentive Safety® provides essential services and will continue to have classroom certification courses following the American Heart Association guidelines for conducting classroom certification courses during the COVID-19 virus outbreak. 

These guidelines will be followed for any classroom courses held at Attentive Safety®. Included in these guidelines are:

Asking any potential student to cancel their participation if they have had any known exposure to COVID-19 or if they feel ill with a cough and or fever. Attentive Safety® will screen students as they arrive for any classroom participation. Any student that demonstrates signs of illness ( cough / fever, etc ) will not be allowed to attend the course.

All Instructors and Staff at Attentive Safety® are screened daily.
Class registration will be limited to no more than 2 students per class to allow appropriate space between students.
All manikins and training equipment will be completely disinfected prior to any class.
All students, after arriving at Attentive Safety®, must wash their hands with soap and water before class.
All students will wear gloves (supplied by Attentive Safety®) during all manikin practice sessions.
All students will safely remove and discard all gloves used during the course.
All students will wash their hands after course completion prior to leaving Attentive Safety®.

Mouth to mouth practice with manikins will not be attempted.

These recommendations could very easily/quickly be changed as new information and guidelines are released.

As a viable option to classroom courses for certification, please remember that the American Heart Association does have “Blended Learning”. Blended learning allows the student to take a certification course Online, and then completes a Skills check-off with an American Heart Association Instructor to complete the certification process. This is a “one on one” skills check-off and significantly reduces exposure that could be involved with larger classroom courses. The student, if successful, receives a 2 year certification from the American Heart Association.

If you require current certification / recertification during the COVID-19 outbreak, Attentive Safety® will offer these options as listed above. Attentive Safety® is following enhanced protocols to assure optimal disinfection of our offices and training spaces, equipment and providing the safest possible environment.

If conditions and information changes, Attentive Safety® will make adjustments to meet these challenges. You may register and pay for any of our classes online at: https://www.attentivesafety.com

Attentive Safety® uses the following current references for the above statements:

CDC guidelines
Federal and State of Georgia declarations and guidelines.
American Heart Association Classroom Training Guidelines.

March 2020 marks an important milestone for Attentive Safety®. It’s officially our 5th year of being in business! Five years ago, Attentive Safety® started humbly with one customer, and now we’ve grown to working with thousands of happy clients. It’s been an exciting five years, and we’re looking forward to many more to come. Wow, we are five years old! It has gone by so quickly but looking back, we have grown and accomplished so much!

Since March 2015 we have come so far, but only because of you – our clients and business partners! We thank you for your support and we are very excited to celebrate this milestone with all of you.

While plenty of changes have occurred over the years, our core values remain the same. Attentive Safety® Training has always strived to be the CPR and Safety Training organization that aims to promote excellence within the industry, along with the highest standards of ethical practices.

Here’s to another 5 years!

Thank you!