Recognition by healthcare professionals

First Aid & CPR Brazil

In health care, maintaining high standards of care is essential to protect the public. For nursing staff, mastering CPR and first aid is a professional expectation and, in many services, an employer requirement; for support staff and elderly caregivers, it is a valued condition to work. Here is what the rules expect for your role — and how recognized, up-to-date, documented training supports it.

Health professionals: continuing education and up-to-date skills

In Brazil, nursing practice is governed by the Conselho Federal de Enfermagem (COFEN) and the regional councils (COREN), with mandatory registration to work. COFEN's normativity on basic and intermediate life support recommends that nursing professionals keep their competencies current and be able to act in emergencies.

For basic life support, COFEN recommends recertification of nursing professionals at least every 2 years and, in services applying medication protocols under BLS, requires complementary certification, plus direct supervision during the first 30 days. Keeping CPR and BLS current is therefore part of the profession's duty of competence.

There is no national continuing-education credit requirement to renew registration. However, for nursing staff working in life support, COFEN recommends recertification at least every 2 years, with complementary certification mandatory in services that add medication protocols under BLS.

The requirement is met by any recognized continuing-education activity on an eligible topic. CPR/AED, ACLS (advanced cardiovascular life support) and PALS are among the eligible activities; other topics also qualify (for example safe prescribing, suicide prevention or violence prevention). A single course therefore both meets the obligation and counts toward your hours — provided you keep the proof.

Eligible courses offered in your region

How training becomes recognized

Not all activities are equal. For continuing education to be recognized by a professional order, it must meet specific criteria:

  • the instructor’s competence;
  • the relevance and quality of the content;
  • the training framework;
  • the quality of the material provided;
  • mechanisms to monitor and assess participation.

In Brazil, these are the recertification and complementary-certification criteria for basic life support set by COFEN that apply to nursing staff. Our training is designed to meet these criteria.

Rigorous online learning

Our training draws on the latest medical research and combines practical modules with a theoretical assessment. The resulting certification is credible and verifiable — presentable to your professional order and to your employer — and prepares you to excel in your practice.

Support and care staff: a certificate required to work

A CPR and first-aid course does not replace occupational training — it is added to it. To work with vulnerable people, a valid first-aid certificate is often required in addition to your professional training.

Support roles follow two distinct paths. The nursing technician/assistant is regulated and requires the technical course with COREN registration — standalone first aid is not enough. The cuidador de idosos (CBO 5162-10), by contrast, is an unregulated occupation in which a recognized standalone first-aid and CPR certificate, added to a caregiver course, is employer-valued as a current, verifiable credential to be renewed.

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Attestation, certificate and invoice: proof your training is recognized

On successful completion, you receive:

  • an official attestation;
  • a certificate of completion;
  • a detailed invoice;
  • online access to your documents for as long as your certification remains valid.

These documents are the proof to present to your professional order to credit your hours, or to your employer to demonstrate your compliance.

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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