American Heart Association

Gwinnett Technical College is one of 24 designated Community Training Centers for the State of Georgia Region for the American Heart Association (AHA). A Community Training Center is an organization which partners with the AHA to develop and maintain Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) training networks in one or more of the following AHA ECC programs: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).

AHA Atlas transition – Please visit https://cpr.heart.org/en/private/atlas-information-and-resources for the latest updates, videos and resources.

ALL PAYMENTS MUST BE MADE ONLINE with a credit or debit card. We cannot accept payments over the phone anymore. Also, we can no longer accept checks.

Frequently Requested Class Documents

Instructor Paper Work

If your instructor status is up for renewal and you need to be monitored here at Gwinnett Technical College, you can now register to do so online. There are a limited number of monitoring spots available. If you do not sign up online, you cannot be monitored here.

To register or log in to your account, please visit: Continuing Education Registration

Students looking for Basic Life Support CPR for the Healthcare Provider registration is online only.

The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in BLS, ACLS, and PALS and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the American Heart Association, and any fees charged for such a course do not represent income to the Association.

AHA Guidelines

Instructor Update Requirements for Instructors and AHA Faculty

All AHA Instructors and Faculty must complete their required Instructor Update(s) by February 1, 2021, to continue teaching or overseeing AHA courses. Instructor Updates will be available in the following disciplines: BLS, ACLS (for ACLS and ACLS EP Instructors), PALS, PEARS, and Heartsaver. An Instructor Update must be completed for each discipline taught. For example, AHA BLS Instructors must complete the BLS 2020 Instructor Update, and those BLS Instructors who teach Heartsaver® courses must also complete the Heartsaver 2020 Instructor Update. For PALS Instructors who teach PEARS®, completion of the PEARS 2020 Instructor Update is recommended, but not required.

Transition Timeline:

Teaching 2020 AHA Guidelines Courses Using New Materials All AHA Instructors and Training Centers will have until February 1, 2021, to begin teaching the new, 2020 Guidelines healthcare courses (BLS, ACLS, PALS) using new materials. To introduce AHA Instructors to the new courses and materials, the AHA will offer complimentary, online Product & Course Orientations for BLS, ACLS, and PALS. These orientations will also be available to Instructors and TCCs through their access to the AHA Instructor Network.

Interim Guidance for Continuing Training

We want to emphasize that between the release of 2005 AHA Guidelines and the release of new products, Training Centers should continue to offer courses using the current materials. It is critical that Training Centers continue to provide courses to everyone that needs training in the healthcare, corporate and public environment.

The new guidelines do not imply that the use of earlier guidelines is either unsafe or ineffective. This includes the use of 15:2 CPR and AEDs that are designed to conform to those guidelines. The AHA recommends that people receive retraining in CPR at least once every two years. People should continue to perform CPR in the way that they were last instructed.

Local EMS and hospital protocols are determined by the medical director of those respective healthcare systems and may be changed by those authorities at any time. If an EMS system or hospital may opt to implement 30:2 CPR at any time.

In late January/early February, instructors and Training Centers will receive bridged materials that will help them to integrate the new science into the current course materials. New textbooks and videos that reflect the new guidelines will begin to be available throughout 2006. As they are released, the American Heart Association will announce the new materials to instructors and Training Centers.

To access the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECC, click on the link below.

AHA Disclaimer

CTC Links

Please visit these links to better help you as an AHA instructor.

ATLAS

Class Equipment and Material

Instructor Training

If you are interested in becoming an American Heart Association Instructor please, register online for the next available class. We hold instructor classes every other month. To register:

Helpful Information

August 2019 update
All instructors will no longer be able to purchase printed, hard cards for students. Going forward only e-cards will be available for purchase. There are NO EXCEPTIONS. Required, new rosters are available for download here: New Rosters. Old versions of the roster will not be accepted. When filling out the rosters, all students’ e-mail addresses must be listed on the roster. An AHA e-card code and link will be sent directly to the students. They will click the link and follow the prompts to retrieve their e-card. Important: if students’ e-mail addresses are not on the rosters, you will delay the receipt of their e-cards.

AHA policy remains the same for e-cards: we continue to have 20 business days from receipt of rosters (excluding weekends and holidays) to process them and send out the students’ e-cards. Cards will only be issued once payment is received in full. If a roster is sent without e-mail addresses, it is not considered a completed roster and it will not be processed within those 20 business days. It is your responsibility to complete the rosters properly.

PLEASE NOTE: you must choose the correct course on your roster cover sheet as well as on the second page. E-cards cannot be retrieved whether claimed or unclaimed. If you do not choose the correct course, you will be charged for both the incorrect cards that are assigned to you based on your roster’s mistakes, as well as for the new set of cards that are assigned to your students.

The new process for making payments online is as follows:

Go to: https://ce.gwinnetttech.edu/portal/logon.do?method=load
Create an account and verify via email
Password: 12 characters, 1 capital letter, 1 number, no symbols, not your name
Log in and accept privacy terms
Click “Special Requests”
Select card type and amount
Click “Change” to:
- Update quantity
- Enter roster date
- Enter number of students
Click “Keep Shopping” or “Checkout” when done
Confirm address and cart details, then checkout
Enter payment info and submit
Email receipt and roster to ahacards@gwinnetttech.edu
Refunds issued within 3 business days if info is incorrect/incomplete

If there is a problem with your order (for example, the wrong type of card) please e-mail both cschnautz@gwinnetttech.edu and mmcaleer@gwinnetttech.edu. When your order is fixed, you will then receive another e-mail that it is ready for payment.

REVISIONS TO UNCLAIMED E-CARDS

Beginning today, all instructors will be making revisions to your students’ unclaimed e-cards. The CTC will not be revising unclaimed e-cards. If a student’s name is misspelled or has changed, or their e-mail address is misspelled or has changed on their unclaimed e-card, you will be able to make these changes yourself.

To make revisions and to resend e-cards please logon to the instructor network. If you cannot logon, please contact the American Heart Association and give them your instructor ID number on the back of your card.

Once you are logged-on, please follow these steps:

Hover your mouse over “DASHBOARD.” There will be a drop down list. Choose: “eCards.”
This will take you to the eCard page.
Once there, hover over “MANAGE ECARDS.” There will be a drop down list. Choose: “Search eCards.”
This will take you to the Search eCards page.
You can search for your students by name, by e-mail or by date.
To edit an unclaimed eCard click the pencil under the edit column. To resend an unclaimed eCard, click the “EMAIL” button under the resend column.

REVISIONS TO CLAIMED E-CARDS

If an e-card has already been claimed by a student and needs revisions, you will be unable to make the revisions. In the case of claimed e-cards: the CTC needs to make the revisions for you.

In keeping with the policy of other Georgia Technical Colleges’ CTCs, if the error to a student’s name or e-mail address is misspelled by you or your student, you will incur a $10 charge per participant revision that will be due before the changes will be made. PLEASE CHECK ALL NAMES AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES CAREFULLY BEFORE SUBMITTING. A best practice that AHA recommends is to have each student key his or her own name and e-mail address onto the roster sheet if you have a laptop or iPad that you can use for that purpose. Also, please tell your students in class, that they should not claim their e-cards if they see that their name is misspelled.

If the error to a student’s name or e-mail address is ours, you will not be charged a fee for the revisions.

Contact Information

Casandra Schnautz
Community Training Center Coordinator
Gwinnett Technical College
Community Training Center
5150 Sugarloaf Parkway
Lawrenceville, GA 30043

Email:
Casandra Schnautz: cschnautz@gwinnetttech.edu
For assistance in Casandra Schnautz’s absence,
Marissa McAleer: mmcaleer@gwinnetttech.edu

Phone inquiries must be made to a new phone line: (678)226-6351

You will be able to get answers to your questions on the new phone line and on our website. Please only leave voice mail messages on the new phone line if your question is not answered on the phone line or on the website. Voice mails will be returned within 48 hours during business hours only.

As always, e-mail communication is preferred. E-mail inquiries can be sent to communitytraining@gwinnetttech.edu.