Course Name: PALS- Initial or Renewal
Online Course Length: 2-4 hours (at your home). We email you the online course within 1 business day.
Skills Testing: 1 hour
Price: $300 (This includes the online course, skills testing, and American Heart Association certification card.)
Certification: American Heart Association© PALS. You will receive your PALS eCard on the day of the class.
1. Choose a Date and Time.
2. We will send you the online PALS course by the end of the business day.
3. Complete the online course (2-4 hours) at your convenience. Start & stop as needed.
4. Skills test one on one with the instructor
5. After completion, you will receive the American Heart Association© PALS certification card.
Skills Practice and Testing (What you will be tested on.)
The instructor will guide you through pediatric CPR and two person CPR lethal rhyhm scenarios.
PALS Renewal or initial students can take this course. You must complete the online course before your skills testing. If you want a live instructor, you would have to take the PALS Renewal or PALS Initial (classroom course).
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS):
- For healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units
What does this course teach?
The PALS Provider Course aims to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in patients with respiratory emergencies, shock, and cardiopulmonary arrest by using high‐performance team dynamics and high‐quality individual skills. The course includes a series of case scenario practices with simulations that reinforce important concepts. Upon successful completion of all the patient cases, students must pass the multiple-choice exam with a minimum score of 84%. Topics include:
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to
- Perform high‐quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per American Heart Association (AHA) basic life support (BLS) recommendations
- Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
- Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds
- Apply team dynamics
- Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
- Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
- Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
- Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
- Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
- Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
- Implement post–cardiac arrest management
Cancellation
There are no refunds after your purchase.
Rescheduling Policy
You can reschedule your course by paying the $25 rescheduling fee for each reschedule or purchase Class Protection for a small fee of $10.