RC Health Services

I’ve been using RC Health for awhile but in Houston. It’s nice to know that the quality of instructors is just as high in Austin. Serena is helpful and hilarious. RC Health has tons of classes so it’s easy to schedule a class even if you’re cutting it close to your expiration dates. Also their staff is quick to respond to questions. I highly recommend them!

When it’s time to renew, or just get certified, your BLS/​ACLS/​PALS and your employer/​school doesn’t provide classes, this is the place to go.
Easy to get to, reasonable fees, good people.
I’ll be back when my ACLS is due.

I had to get certified in BLS for Healthcare Providers for nursing school, and I chose RC because their schedule of classes fit with my schedule at the time. I’m glad this is where I ended up. This was a Monday morning, so the class was small, but because of this I was able to enjoy more attention from the instructor and the skills tests we had to do went by very quickly.
Go to their website and check out the schedule of classes for what you need/​want to get certified in. Sign up for the class, and then you have the option of paying online or paying when you arrive for the class. However, the site states that paying online guarantees your seat for the class, so if you were going to pay in person and it’s a popular slot for the class, you might have to reschedule (as far as I understand it, anyway).
The cost of the course was very fair. It was slightly less than the other companies I had looked at, and if you didn’t have the AHA manual needed for the course, you could add it on for $ 10. It was a nice resource to take notes in and bring home should I wish to reference any of the procedures later on.
We were shown the most up-​to-​date AHA videos, pausing at regular intervals to practice on dummies (which were in great shape, much newer and nicer than the ones I used in health class in high school). As we practiced the instructor watched us to correct our technique and give tips, and provided important things to remember and things he had learned in his many years working in healthcare (I believe he said he’d been a medical assistant and an EMT for years in addition to teaching). We had two skills tests and a short multiple choice test at the very end.
The only problem I ran into this day was that they happened to be out of AHA cards for the moment, but the instructor remedied this by contacting the main office (in Houston, I think?) and having them put our cards in the mail that day in addition to emailing us scanned copies of them in case we needed them immediately. Small problem, great solution. I had already received the email by the time I got back to Pflugerville.
By far the best part of my experience was the instructor. James was very easy-​going and absolutely hilarious. He was very knowledgeable and knew how to keep the attention of a class. He made a class that I feared might be otherwise boring very interesting and even entertaining.
A great teacher really does make all the difference.