Staff Competencies for Core Components

Brush Up on the Building Blocks of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

AACVPR understands that new healthcare challenges may mean budget and staff constraints for our members’ programs. The time- and cost-effective bundles of The Staff Competencies for Core Components contain vital information on the key elements of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation to support your program staff in delivering excellence in an evolving healthcare environment.

Each module has been designed in alignment with the "Core Competencies for Cardiac Rehabilitation/Secondary Prevention Professionals: 2010 Update" and "Clinical Competency Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation" documents and can be used to meet the competency requirements for Program Certification. Please Note: CR Competencies can only be used to meet the requirements for the CR Application, and PR Competencies can only be used to meet the requirements for the PR application.

Share With Your Team

New purchases of the Staff Competency for Core Components bundles includes four (4) complimentary access passes for staff members at your program to access the Staff Competencies for Core Components. Individuals who you appoint to receive these free access passes will be able to view this product in their individual AACVPR Learning Center accounts, complete the knowledge assessments, and claim CEUs. Please email education@aacvpr.org with the first name, last name and email address of the four (4) individuals who you would like to appoint to receive these free access passes.

It is the responsibility of the purchaser to provide AACVPR with the names for the free access passes. Failure to provide names before the original purchase expiration date will result in forfeiture of the access passes. Access pass viewing windows will expire on the same day as the original course purchase.

Staff Competencies for Core Components: Full Series Bundle

Members: $629 for one-year subscription
Non-Members: $829 for one-year subscription

11.5 CEUs

  • Lipid Management: Todd Brown, MD, MSPH, FACC, FAHA, MAACVPR
  • Physical Activity Assessment: Patrick Savage, MS, FAACVPR
  • Psychosocial Management: Joel Hughes, PhD, FAACVPR
  • Weight Management: Debbie Krivitsky, MS, RD, LDN
  • CR Exercise Training: Teresa Lee, EdD, RCEP, CCRP
  • Patient Assessment: Jill Fox, BSN, RN-BC, FAACVPR
  • PR Exercise Training: Erik Ostrowski, MS, ACSM-RCEP, ACSM-CEP, EIM 3, CCRP
  • Blood Pressure Management: Paul Oh, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP
  • Diabetes Management: Jacqueline Shahar, Med, RCEP, CDE
  • PR Medications: Karen Edwards, MS, ACSM-RCEP, RRT, FAACVPR
  • Tobacco Cessation: Laura Lucchesi, MS, BSN, CTTS

Purchase the Full Series

Staff Competencies for Core Components: CR Bundle

Members: $525 for one-year subscription
Non-Members: $700 for one-year subscription

9.75 CEUs

  • Lipid Management, Todd Brown, MD, MSPH, FACC, FAHA, MAACVPR
  • Physical Activity Assessment, Patrick Savage, MS, FAACVPR
  • Psychosocial Management, Joel Hughes, PhD, FAACVPR
  • Weight Management, Debbie Krivitsky, MS, RD, LDN
  • CR Exercise Training, Teresa Lee, EdD, RCEP, CCRP
  • Patient Assessment, Jill Fox, BSN, RN-BC, FAACVPR
  • Blood Pressure Management, Paul Oh, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP
  • Diabetes Management, Jacqueline Shahar, Med, RCEP, CDE
  • Tobacco Cessation, Laura Lucchesi, MS, BSN, CTTS

Purchase the CR Bundle

Staff Competencies for Core Components: PR Bundle 

Members: $290 for one-year subscription
Non-Members: $390 for one-year subscription

5.25 CEUs

Psychosocial Management: Joel Hughes, PhD, FAACVPR
Patient Assessment: Jill Fox, BSN, RN-BC, FAACVPR
PR Exercise Training: Erik Ostrowski, MS, ACSM-RCEP, ACSM-CEP, EIM 3, CCRP
PR Medications: Karen Edwards, MS, ACSM-RCEP, RRT, FAACVPR
Tobacco Cessation: Laura Lucchesi, MS, BSN, CTTS

Purchase the PR Bundle