Course Description
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) will prepare you to respond to life-threatening emergencies in the adult population with advanced interventions. This ACLS course is based on the latest guidelines, which focus on doing several tasks simultaneously with a group process that enables efficiency and minimizes errors. This course will teach participants how to perform advanced emergency interventions as well as review foundation theories, including Basic Life Support, Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart, the Resuscitation Team, a Systematic Approach, Life-Threatening Issues, Medical Devices, Bradycardia, Tachycardia, and many more. The course package includes ACLS self-assessments and review questions, ACLS lectures and video presentations, and the ACLS provider manual.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to:
- Understand the first assessment in emergency response
- Have working knowledge of basic life support (BLS) principles and their role in ACLS
- Understand the principles and rationale behind defibrillation while integrating the concepts of “Systems of Care” in resuscitation scenarios
- Be familiar with the roles of the rapid response and resuscitation teams while gaining familiarity with the algorithms for specific ACLS cases
Intended Audience
This course is intended for nurses, certified nursing assistants and healthcare assistants.
Author
Provided by Save a Life Certifications by NHCPS, Save a Life Certifications is the premier online provider of online medical certification and recertification. Save a Life provides certification in crucial medical training, such as advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), basic life support (BLS), pediatric advanced life support (PALS), automated external defibrillator (AED), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid.
All proceeds from Save a Life Certifications by NHCPS support the efforts of the Disque Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission of advancing healthcare education for the underserved worldwide. This funding provides much-needed life support training in areas such as Haiti, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Panama, and the United States.
In conjunction with Medline, Save a Life Certifications by NHCPS has produced a series of courses on crucial medical training. In keeping with its mission of providing vital medical support to those in under-served areas, these courses are now available to anyone anywhere, online, and free of charge.
CE Information
Upon course completion, this course can be submitted as 1.00 CEU towards the 10 CEU requirement for recertification set forth by the AMCA Certification Board.
Click here for a list of additional AMCA Approved CE Courses from Medline University and the corresponding CE credits for each.
NOTE - This course is for training in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). If you would like to be certified please visit NHCPS and complete your ACLS certification test. Your course completion certificate will include a promotional code and instructions to take the certification exam for FREE!