Residential care settings: first-aid and CPR standards

First Aid & CPR New Jersey

In New Jersey, assisted-living residences, personal-care homes and home-care agencies serving vulnerable adults and seniors depend on aides who can respond to a medical emergency. To keep residents safe, these settings expect their care staff to hold CPR and first-aid training.

Settings concerned

Assisted-living residences, personal-care homes and home-care agencies; the Board of Nursing's 76-hour Certified Homemaker-Home Health Aide (CHHA) program includes CPR.

The first-aid requirement

The Board of Nursing's mandated 76-hour Certified Homemaker-Home Health Aide (CHHA) curriculum includes CPR, and CPR and basic first-aid certifications are often required once an aide is hired in agencies, assisted-living residences and personal-care homes that care for vulnerable adults.

A recognized, up-to-date first-aid and CPR certificate is the way to meet this requirement; it is in addition to the worker's occupational training and must be renewed periodically.

How to meet it

A recognized, up-to-date first-aid and CPR certificate meets this requirement. It is in addition to the required training or assessment, and is renewed periodically.

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For organizations: keep your team compliant

When the certificate is an employer requirement, the real challenge is tracking. Our organization system manages a team’s training: a certification dashboard, deadline tracking, automatic renewal reminders and proof archiving. An organization keeps its whole staff current without watching every date by hand.

Training aligned with the latest emergency-care standards

Our CPR, AED and first-aid training is developed in line with the most recent international guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care and first aid.

We rigorously follow the recommendations of ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation), the international body responsible for the scientific evaluation and development of global resuscitation standards. These recommendations serve as a reference for health organizations, institutions and professional orders worldwide — and are updated as scientific and clinical evidence evolves.

Keep your skills current with confidence

Every intervention can make a difference. Keeping CPR and emergency-care skills current is both a professional requirement and a responsibility toward patients, colleagues and the public.

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