NVERS is an approved American Heart Association Training Center. Our primary focus is to train first responders in Northern Virginia. We support our instructors as they provide education and community outreach. We also support a small cohort of individual instructors but are not in a position to welcome additional entrepreneurial instructors and businesses at this time.
Member Training Sites
Useful links:
ATLAS – American Heart Association page to find student training opportunities, instructor training centers, and other training verification
AHA 2025 Guidelines – Access the 2025 Guidelines for CPR and ECC
Our center has been in Winchester for over 20 years serving the residents, businesses, and organizations within the Northern Shenandoah Valley. We have approximately 150 instructors within our center. Group classes can be scheduled for groups of at least 4 individuals by calling the Council’s office at (540) 790-7882 or e-mailing [email protected].
All registrations for Council classes are taken online. To register for any class, click here.
The 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.
In the Instructor-led course, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam.
Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrives. Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants.
This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the student.
HeartCode BLS uses a variety of eLearning assets such as dramatizations, eSimulations, animations, self-directed learning, and interactive activities to teach students BLS knowledge and skills.
After completing the online portion, students attend a structured BLS Hands-On Session with an AHA Instructor. This session focuses on meaningful skills practice, team scenarios, and skills testing. This is for healthcare professionals seeking an alternative method for completing an initial or renewal HCP course.
Heartsaver Blended Learning courses include an online portion and a hands-on session. The online portion provides the flexibility of completing training at your own pace, either at work, home, or wherever you have Internet access. The hands-on portion includes a skills practice and testing session conducted in-person with an AHA BLS or Heartsaver Instructor.
For any questions regarding the Council’s AHA Training Center, please contact the Council’s Training Center Coordinator at (540) 790-7882 or e-mailing [email protected].
