Purpose This Initial Provider course is designed to teach the knowledge and skills required to implement the American Heart Association’s ACLS treatment guidelines in the learner’s practice setting and improve the outcomes for adult patients with cardiac arrest and other cardiopulmonary emergencies. Target Audience The participant in this course is a currently active healthcare [...]
Course Overview An alternative to traditional, classroom-based ACLS training, HeartCode™ ACLS is a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program from the American Heart Association. The full course combines an interactive, cognitive portion completed online, with CPR skills training. It includes interactive patient cases that test the user’s ability to apply the ACLS algorithms to effect treatment. Users [...]
For ACLS purposes, we are primarily concerned with two basic types of pacing. The first, transcutaneous pacing, is an emergent procedure which uses 2 gel pads. One is placed at the 5th intercostal space mid-clavicular on the left side of the anterior chest wall, and the other in between the backbone and shoulder blade on [...]
Purpose This Dual Option course is designed to teach the knowledge and skills required to implement the American Heart Association’s ACLS treatment guidelines in the learner’s practice setting and improve the outcomes for adult patients with cardiac arrest and other cardiopulmonary emergencies. Target Audience The participant in this course is a currently active healthcare provider [...]
Nursing Unlimited is a training center for the American Heart Association, offering BLS, ACLS and PALS for healthcare providers, and basic life support and first aid classes for non-healthcare providers on a contract basis. We also offer the AHA Core Instructor Course, and discipline-specific instructor courses such as BLS Instructor, ACLS Instructor and PALS Instructor. [...]