How to Become a Certified CPR Instructor

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Chip and I'm a Paramedic Instructor in North Carolina. We are here today to talk a little bit about how you can become a certified CPR Instructor. CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the first step is to become certified as a rescuer in CPR. You can go to any local vendor such as your EMS agency, local YMCA, they offer plenty of public CPR courses. Once you take that first step, and know how to do CPR you can contact individuals to find out how to become an instructor so that you too can teach other people the basic steps of CPR. The American Red Cross is one agency, American Heart Association is another. You can go on the website and you can search for those particular entities and find a phone number to call local to you. Most of those courses are very inexpensive and what you'll do is you will go through a course, first you'll be tested on what you know as far as giving CPR. And then you'll be taught how to deliver CPR instruction using video-based or hands-based exercises. You'll be taught about their testing procedures and things of that nature so that you can be allowed to go on your own and teach CPR to others to help spread that information in which you know in my opinion everyone should be certified in CPR regardless of where you live or what you do for a living. If for any reason just to help your own family and friends. So this is Chip and I hope that you will go out and learn how to be a CPR instructor."