An American Red Cross & HSI Training Center

CPR First Aid Training Saves Lives operates as a division of Nursing Concepts Health & Safety Training, headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut. We hold both American Red Cross and Health & Safety Institute Training Center credentials, offering nationally recognized certification courses in CPR, First Aid, AED, Basic Life Support, and Pediatric First Aid. Our team provides open-enrollment classes, private group sessions, and on-site training for businesses, schools, healthcare facilities, and childcare programs statewide.

One Training Center, Every Audience

A nursing student preparing for clinical rotations has very different needs than a daycare director meeting state licensing requirements, and both need something different from a company scheduling annual workplace compliance training. We build every course around the people in the room. The same certification standard applies across the board, but the scenarios, the pacing, and the emphasis shift depending on who is learning and why.

Training That Meets You Where You Are

Not every organization can send employees offsite for a full day of training, and not every individual can make a weekday class. That is why we offer evening and weekend scheduling, on-site group training anywhere in Connecticut, and courses designed to certify in a single session. Whether you need one employee recertified or an entire staff trained from scratch, we build around your schedule and your requirements.

Brenda Shuler| Founder & Lead Instructor

Brenda Shuler graduated from nursing school in 1988 and spent the early years of her career in clinical healthcare before discovering a second calling in emergency preparedness education. In 2002, she began teaching American Heart Association CPR courses at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut, where she saw firsthand how proper training could mean the difference between hesitation and action in a crisis.


That experience led her to establish a Health & Safety Institute (HSI) Training Center in 2009, and a decade later she added American Red Cross Training Center credentials in 2019. Today, through CPR First Aid Training Saves Lives, a division of Nursing Concepts Health & Safety Training, Brenda and her team deliver CPR, First Aid, AED, BLS, and Pediatric First Aid certification courses to healthcare professionals, childcare providers, businesses, schools, and community organizations across Connecticut.


With more than 35 years in nursing and over two decades in the classroom, Brenda's teaching philosophy is built around one principle: certification should mean something. Every student who completes a course should leave not just with a card, but with the muscle memory and confidence to act when someone's life depends on it.