How to Become an AHA Instructor
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The American Heart Association is always seeking professionals to conduct training in first aid, CPR, AED, and advanced cardiovascular care. If you are passionate about saving lives, motivated to facilitate learning, feel comfortable in group settings, and find it easy to make complex concepts understandable to others, you may be a perfect candidate.
Becoming an American Heart Association instructor is easy after consulting with an American Heart Association Training Center to find out whether the Training Center (TC) is accepting new instructors.
Follow this Basic Overview to Become an AHA Instructor
You must have a current AHA provider card in the discipline you are interested in instructing to complete the below steps.
- Go to Atlas.heart.org(link opens in new window) to find a TC near you to ask if they are accepting new instructor candidates. The TC will provide guidance on the steps you need to complete including required paperwork.
- Successfully complete the online portion, the in-person portion, and the monitoring portion of the Instructor course.
- Once you have completed the steps above and have been issued your Instructor eCard you will need to align with your TC/TS in Atlas.
As an Instructor, you will have access to the most current emergency cardiovascular care science, course updates, training resources and tools through atlas.heart.org(link opens in new window).
For a more in-depth step by step guide of how to become an AHA instructor from start to finish please follow this how to guide. This how-to guide and additional resources can also be found on the Atlas Information and Resources webpage(link opens in new window).
AHA Instructor Community
Your Forum of Instructor Peers
Once you become an AHA Instructor, you will have immediate access to our Instructor Community, a networking site where you can connect with your fellow AHA Instructors to exchange knowledge, information and expertise, or to ask us questions directly. Our hope is that you explore the site and begin to share ideas, discuss the latest trends in CPR training and give us feedback so we can partner with you to provide outstanding training and save more lives.
What can you do in the AHA Instructor Community?
- Participate in or start discussion forums
- Post and comment on blogs
- Chat with colleagues, share stories and photos, ask and answer questions
- List local events and view AHA national events
- Access resources to promote your CPR and ECC training
- Earn “badges” based on your activity in the community
- Connect with friends
- Join groups based on your Instructor discipline(s)
- And more! We’ll continually adjust the site to add new features based on your input.
While the Instructor Community is your space, we will be listening to your opinions so that we can learn more about your needs and wants as a provider of lifesaving training.