Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
The premier advanced resuscitation program designed for healthcare providers to improve outcomes with adult patients experiencing a cardiovascular emergency.
What makes our ACLS program ideal for your professional needs?
Heart & Stroke’s online Precourse Self-Assessment will help you to evaluate your readiness for the ACLS Provider and the ACLS Provider Renewal courses. It covers rhythm recognition, pharmacology and the application of knowledge to practical scenarios.
We strongly encourage you to prepare by buying and reviewing the Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Provider Manual, and reviewing the resources found under the ACLS student Resources tab.
The Precourse Self-Assessment is free, takes 30 to 45 minutes to complete, and a passing score is 70%. You can take it as many times as needed.
Take Precourse Self-Assessment
What is NEW and IMRPOVED about this program?
TEAMWORK, TEAMWORK, TEAMWORK
You’ll no longer be tested individually on your ability to lead a team, especially since many of you might never assume that position in your real-life healthcare role. You and other members of your team will pass – or fail – based on your team’s performance. The reason for the change is that, in a real-life situation, patient outcomes depend largely upon the performance of the entire team, not just one individual.
Blended learning that suits your learning style and your busy life
If you can’t find time to take a course or prefer to learn information at your own pace and not at the pace of a class, you may be better suited to our new blended learning format. The new format’s first of two components is online and self-paced: you review class materials at your own time and wherever you’re most comfortable, complete it at once or in stages, and revisit any of the information whenever you want. You choose to take the second component – in-classroom learning led by one of our instructors – when you feel fully prepared to do so.
CPR Coach is now a stand-alone role
Each ACLS course builds upon the newly introduced role of CPR Coach. The new role is critical to patient outcomes: the CPR Coach is able to focus solely on ensuring the patient is receiving high-quality CPR and, by doing so, frees up the Team Leader to focus on the ever-changing elements of running a code. Through teamwork training in the classroom, you will learn how to incorporate the role of CPR Coach into your healthcare environments.
What can you expect to learn from our ACLS program?
- High-Quality CPR (applying Basic Life Support skills to case scenarios)
- Airway Management
- High-Quality
- Systems of Care
- Science of Resuscitation
- Systematic Approach
- CPR coach
- Signs of Clinical Deterioration
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Acute Stroke
- High-Performance Teams
- Cardiac Arrest
- Post Cardiac-arrest Care
- Bradycardia
- Tachycardia
What is new and improved about this program?
Teamwork, teamwork, teamwork
You’ll no longer be tested individually on your ability to lead a team, especially since many of you might never assume that position in your real-life healthcare role. You and other members of your team will pass – or fail – based on your team’s performance. The reason for the change is that, in a real-life situation, patient outcomes depend largely upon the performance of the entire team, not just one individual.
Blended learning that suits your learning style and your busy life
If you can’t find time to take a course or prefer to learn information at your own pace and not at the pace of a class, you may be better suited to our new blended learning format. The new format’s first of two components is online and self-paced: you review class materials at your own time and wherever you’re most comfortable, complete it at once or in stages, and revisit any of the information whenever you want. You choose to take the second component – in-classroom learning led by one of our instructors – when you feel fully prepared to do so.
CPR Coach is now a stand-alone role
Each ACLS course builds upon the newly introduced role of CPR Coach. The new role is critical to patient outcomes: the CPR Coach is able to focus solely on ensuring the patient is receiving high-quality CPR and, by doing so, frees up the Team Leader to focus on the ever-changing elements of running a code. Through teamwork training in the classroom, you will learn how to incorporate the role of CPR Coach into your healthcare environments.