PALS Certification Overview
HeartCode PALS uses a personalized adaptive algorithm that sets students on the most efficient path to PALS mastery. Students follow a continuously adapting learning path that is personalized by their own inputs: their performance and their self- reported confidence level related to each probe. The course content is presented in the form of self-directed learning content, probes, and Cognitive Assessment Activities. The student has a choice of completing a pre-hospital or in-hospital contextualized track. After completing the online portion, students will attend a structured, Instructor-led hands-on session that focuses on meaningful skills practice, debriefing, team scenarios, discussions of local protocols and skills testing. Students complete the hands-on session with a HeartCode voice-assisted manikin.
HeartCode PALS is the AHA’s PALS blended learning delivery method. Blended learning is a combination of eLearning, in which a student completes part of the course in a self-directed manner, followed by a hands-on skills session.
Part 1:
- With the new adaptive learning format, the timing for completing the online portion of HeartCode PALS can vary depending on the student’s level of experience.
- The hands-on session for HeartCode PALS will take approximately 5 hours with breaks, or 4 hours and 50 minutes without breaks
- May be used for initial or renewal PALS for Healthcare Providers Course completion.
Part 2:
- Make sure you complete the course survey at the end of the eLeaning to generate your Completion Certificate
- Upload the Completion Certificate to your portal when scheduling your skills check.
- Practice, demonstrate, and successfully complete skills testing with our voice guided manakin station to receive your PALS Provider Card on the same day
Course Content
- High-quality Child CPR AED and Infant CPR
- Recognition of patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
- Recognition of cardiopulmonary arrest early and application of CPR within 10 seconds
- Apply team dynamics
- Differentiation between respiratory distress and failure
- Early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
- Differentiation between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
- Early interventions for the treatment of shock
- Differentiation between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
- Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
- Post–cardiac arrest management
Features
- HeartCode PALS uses a personalized adaptive algorithm that sets students on the most efficient path to PALS mastery.
- Students follow a continuously adapting learning path that is personalized by their own inputs: their performance and their self- reported confidence level related to each probing question.
- Course content is presented in the form of self-directed learning content, probes, and Cognitive Assessment Activities.
Course Completion eCard and Continuing Education
American Heart Association PALS Provider Course Completion eCard, valid for two years.
Board of Registered Nursing Provider approved for up to 12 CE units
