Miami Dade College

The Basic Life Support course is designed to teach the skills of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) for victims of all ages (including ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device, and oxygen), use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO). This course is intended for participants who provide health care to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings. The course is also designed for anyone who is required to take a health care provider course for employment.

A one-hour Domestic Violence course is required by the Florida legislature for all healthcare providers during each licensure period. This course satisfies that requirement, and it will provide you with information on victim identification, procedures used to screen victims of domestic violence, methods, and resources used in counseling.

A one-hour course to update healthcare providers with current issues on HIV/AIDS. In addition to furnishing current AIDS statistics and drug therapy information, this course allows participants to discuss current issues of sex education, mandatory testing, confidentiality and more.

This course is designed to review the recommendations of The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for infection control. This course is provided to help reduce the health risk to workers whose duties involve exposure to blood or other potentially hazardous materials.

This course is designed to meet the guidelines on the prevention of medical errors for healthcare providers. The course emphasizes the impact of medical errors; the prevention of error-prone situations; the responsibilities for reporting errors and more.

The Basic Life Support course is designed to teach the skills of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) for victims of all ages (including ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device, and oxygen), use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO). This course is intended for participants who provide health care to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings. The course is also designed for anyone who is required to take a health care provider course for employment.

Required in order to work for a Medicare or Medicaid home health agency. A home health aide must complete at least 75 hours of training and/or successfully complete a competency evaluation given by the home health agency.

The Human Resources Certificate Program will provide participants with an understanding of employment legislation and laws and how they affect the workplace. Recruiting and hiring employees, performance evaluations, compensation and new FLSA regulations will be covered.

This course will meet the four hour requirement that most people in the health field need. Topics include: HIV/AIDS definitions, modes of transmission, high risk groups, stages of HIV infection, testing and treatment for HIV, worldwide and US statistics, legal issues regarding HIV, confidentiality of the information, as well as the use of Universal Precautions, personal protective equipment, handwashing and other infection control procedures to prevent transmission of the virus.

This course is designed to review the recommendations of The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for infection control. This course is provided to help reduce the health risk to workers whose duties involve exposure to blood or other potentially hazardous materials.

The Certified Nursing Assistant Test Prep course provides 30-hours of intensive review in critical thinking (decision making) skills, test taking strategies, and simple methods on retaining content knowledge of specialty nursing topics. This course will provide students with the opportunity to enhance their existing knowledge of nursing content as it applies to individual learning and cognitive styles, as well as acquire new knowledge and skill in test-taking and decision making strategies. The goal of this review course is obtain a passing score on the CAN Licensing examination.

The Human Resource Certificate will provide participants with an understanding of employment legislation and laws and how they affect the workplace. Recruiting and hiring employess, performance evaluations, compensation and new FLSA regulations will be covered.