The Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is quite often a mandatory skill set for most clinical health professionals and public safety personnel. Training for the course can be completed in a relatively short period but there is no mistaking its importance for aspirants to a number of jobs and volunteering roles, including lifeguards, sports coaches, and some teachers.
The large majority of medical professionals and those in help and rescue functions including doctors, nurses, firefighters and police officers are usually required to obtain BLS certification.
The course itself imparts basic basic life-saving skills to help revive, resuscitate, or sustain a person who may be experiencing cardiac arrest or a respiratory failure of some sort. Such situations may include attending to a drowning victim, a heart attack or stroke patient, or any emergency scenario where a person’s breathing or heartbeat have been compromised.
BLS is often required of people who work with young children or elderly people. Babysitters, nannies, daycare workers, and librarians stand to get additional weightage when they are considered by potential employers if they have completed BLS training, though it may not always be mandatory.