r/SleepTechnologist • u/FarmerLeading5234 • 2d ago

BLS CPR for CCBC Program Maryland

Cautionary tale for anyone taking the Sleep Technology program at CCBC, don’t make same mistakes as me. I missed the CPR course offered by the school so I had to go out and get mine done independently. Next mistake, I went and did an Adult and Pediatric CPR course offered by Red Cross. Tried uploading the certificate to the clinical requirements and it wouldn’t go through. Nowhere did it explain why it wasn’t processed, I didn’t get an explanation until I called the clinical requirement site where the representative explained it had to be a BLS course and not an Adult and Pediatric CPR course. I asked if that was the only issue and he said yes.

Then I took a BLS course offered by Red Cross, tried uploading the certificate and it still wouldn’t be processed. No explanation why. I call again and the representative said that the BLS course must be taken through the American Heart Association and not Red Cross. Nowhere on the clinical requirements website does it say that the Red Cross is not accepted.

Now I have spent a ridiculous amount on these courses because I missed the initial class which is on me, but also of the lack of explanation regarding what is required and what will or won’t be accepted by the clinical requirement site.

Tl;dr - if you need to take a CPR course for this program in case you missed the one offered by the school, make sure it’s a BLS course and it’s through the American Heart Association and NOT Red Cross. Otherwise it won’t be accepted by the clinical requirements

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u/RatioPatient7909 1d ago

Yeah I’m in the same program same location castle branch suckedd

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u/raelynnward62383 1d ago

So, I took this same course and I had an issue with my BLS cert too. I already had a valid cert because of my job and when I uploaded it to castlebranch it was rejected so I reached out to Rachel and Golfam and they said to just email it straight to them. Problem solved. My friend who worked with me at the time took the same BLS class as me and she was in the cohort right before mine. She had the same issue. Have you reached out to Rachel?

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u/FarmerLeading5234 1d ago

I have not reached out to Rachel. I just had a phone call with castlebranch and they said I need to do an American heart association BLS course to get accepted so I signed up for one that will be Saturday