AHA - ACLS - Provider - Renewal/Update

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Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support

Provider - Renewal Course

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About:

This advanced resuscitation course teaches the critical actions a provider must take, during the first 10 minutes of an adult cardiac arrest. This program highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS). You will learn the immediate actions, including adult BLS, when a patient enters cardiac arrest. This is a common credential required by most facilities. For the Pediatric version of this course (Pediatric Advanced Life Support [PALS]) click here.

Throughout this course you will learn, practice, and apply the following:

Adult basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest (VF, pVT, PEA, Asystole)
Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia, tachycardia, etc
Basic and advanced airway management
Related pharmacology
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) and stroke
Effective communication as a member and a leader of a resuscitation team
and more...

Audience: All healthcare providers where ACLS is required for their workplace requirement/scope of practice. Additionally, students of health care programs (i.e., RN Students, Medical Students, NP Students, PA Students, etc. may also attend this program), and more. If you hold an un-expired AHA ACLS credential then this course is for you.

Before attending this course, you should:

Obtain & read the current 2016 AHA ACLS textbook. The AHA does not permit loaning/sharing/renting of textbooks. Each participant must have their own textbook available to them before, during, and after the course. (we provide at a discount.)
(Optional) Complete the Online EKG & Emergency Pharmacology course, before taking this course. This online course includes all of the necessary content to pass the pre-test and other ACLS course concepts. Registration available on the next page. Those with significant experience with ECGs and Emergency Pharmacology may skip this section.
Watch 4 videos, on the AHA's pre-test website (access code available on page ii of the ACLS textbook).
Complete the pre-course checklist (located inside the textbook)
Pass the ACLS pre-test with a score of 70% or higher. Note: the pre-test access code is located inside the course textbook. The AHA's website provides you with unlimited attempts to pass the pre-test.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be issued an American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) credential, valid for 2 years.

To complete this course you must:

Sign-in on the course roster.
Bring your unexpired AHA ACLS credential to the course.
Bring all the required items, below, to the course.
Have watched all the videos on the AHA website.
Complete and participate in all stations and discussions.
Pass the written (50 MCQs) with a score of 84% or higher.
Successfully complete one mega-code scenario.
Complete the post-course evaluation.

Bring with you to the course:

Your copy of the ACLS textbook.
Completed pre-course checklist.
Pre-test with a score of 70% (or higher).
Copy of your current AHA BLS for Healthcare Providers credential*
Photo ID (i.e. drivers license).

We are not permitted to admit you the course without these items.

*A BLS card is not required if renewing BLS on the same day as the ACLS course.

Contact hours (nursing): 5.5 continuing nursing education hours are awarded upon successful ACLS renewal program completion. (An additional 6.5 contact hours are awarded for completion of the ECG & Emergency Pharmacology Course). Up to 12 contact hours can be earned!

The Health Care Training Academy is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Faculty: Our instructors are outstanding! They are non-intimidating, knowledgeable, and genuinely interested in helping you succeed in completing this course. Our faculty members are selected because of their expertise, talent, and their friendly approach!