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Specifically designed to address a key knowledge gap in Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Pharmacology, the American Heart Association’s ACLS Prep: ECG and ACLS Prep: Pharmacology courses are focused on specific ECG recognition skills and drug treatment knowledge, which have been identified as key gaps in knowledge for ACLS students.

Recognizing that without strong competency in either ECG recognition or drug treatment knowledge related to the ACLS algorithms, achievement of ACLS certification for the healthcare provider is more difficult.

As a result, these courses were redesigned as self-directed eLearning courses to address those knowledge gaps and serve as a precourse option for ACLS students needing to improve ECG recognition skills and drug treatment knowledge.

Who should take this course?

ACLS students who need to improve ECG recognition and drug treatment skills and knowledge, or healthcare professionals wanting to gain knowledge in ECG recognition and pharmacology. This includes:

ACLS Prep: ECG
Healthcare professionals who require basic rhythm recognition skills related to the ACLS algorithms. This includes telemetry staff, non-critical/emergency nurses, emergency medical services personnel, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, non-critical/emergency physicians, and dentists.

ACLS Prep: Pharmacology
Healthcare professionals who require basic drug interaction understanding related to the ACLS algorithms. This includes non-critical/emergency nurses, emergency medical services personnel, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, non-critical/emergency physicians, and dentists.

 

What does this course teach?

Learning Objectives:

ACLS Prep: ECG:

  • Explain heart anatomy and basic electrophysiology
  • Explain normal ECG measurements
  • Recognize and understand the basic arrhythmias
ACLS: Prep: Pharmacology:
  • List basic ACLS drugs and their usage
  • Identify ACLS medication doses and routes of administration during cardiovascular emergencies
  • Apply basic pharmacology into the ACLS algorithms

HeartCode® ACLS

HeartCode ACLS is the AHA’s ACLS 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 session. The online portion of this comprehensive eLearning program uses eSimulation technology to allow students to assess and treat patients in virtual healthcare settings.

BLS and PALS skills sessions may be scheduled before or after ACLS Skills session. Please contact us or see our schedule if you need multiple certifications.

 

Course: Recertification ACLS Class

This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

This is a one day class taught by instructors with real-life critical care and code experience.

BLS skills session can be added to this class. The material will be reviewed at the completion of your ACLS class.

 

ACLS for Experienced Providers goes beyond the core ACLS training by offering critical thinking opportunities for those advanced, experienced, healthcare professionals who use ACLS on a regular basis. The goal of ACLS EP is to improve outcomes in complex cardiovascular, respiratory and other (e.g., metabolic, toxicologic) emergencies by expanding on core ACLS guidelines and encouraging critical thinking and decision-making strategies. Through cooperative learning and active participation in case-based scenarios, learners enhance their skills in the differential diagnosis and treatment of prearrest, arrest and postarrest patients.

Who should take this course?

The AHA’s ACLS EP Course is designed for those who are proficient in performing BLS and ACLS skills, reading and interpreting ECGs, understanding ACLS pharmacology; and who regularly lead or participate in emergency assessment and treatment of prearrest, arrest, or postarrest patients.

What does this course teach?

  • Demonstrate proficiency in providing BLS care, including prioritizing chest compressions and integrating use of an AED
  • Recognize and manage respiratory arrest
  • Recognize and manage cardiac arrest until termination of resuscitation or transfer of care, including post–cardiac arrest care

Course Completion Card

Upon completion of all course requirements, participants receive an ACLS EP Provider Course Completion Card which is valid for two years.

 

This course addresses principles of fetal heart monitoring and includes lecture, hands-on skill
stations including performing Leopold maneuvers, placement of an intrauterine pressure catheter
and fetal spiral electrode, interpretation of fetal monitoring tracings using a case-based approach,
identification of physiologically based clinical interventions, and communication and risk
management principles.  Online prerequisite education is required prior to attending the one-day
course. Successful completion of the online knowledge validation test is required to receive
nursing contact hours/CME for the course. This course can be used to support preparation for
certification examinations.


Format: Online prerequisite education, followed by a one-day, Instructor-led course

Nursing contact hours: 11.25

The Association of Women’s Health,Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Accredited status does not imply endorsement by AWHONN or ANCC of any commercial products
discussed/displayed in conjunction with the educational activity.

AWHONN is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP580.
AWHONN is the provider of this course and AffinityCE is the joint provider.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the American Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Affinity CE and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). AffinityCE is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. AffinityCE designates this live activity for a maximum 11.25 hour of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This classroom course teaches employees how to protect themselves and others from being exposed to blood or blood-containing materials. This course is designed to meet OSHA requirements for bloodborne pathogens training when paired with site-specific instruction.

Heartsaver Bloodborne Pathogens was designed specifically for workers with a reasonable chance of coming into contact with bloodborne pathogens such as 

  • Childcare workers

  • Security guards

  • Maintenance workers

  • School personnel

  • Hotel housekeepers

  • Health and fitness club staff, and

  • Tattoo artists

HeartCode® BLS

HeartCode BLS is the AHA’s BLS 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 session.

The skills session can take approximately 1.5 hours. We keep our class sizes small and can often complete all requirements within 1 hour.

Heartsaver Blended Learning courses include an online portion and a hands-on session. The online portion provides the flexibility of completing training at your own pace, either at work, home, or wherever you have Internet access. The hands-on portion includes a skills practice and testing session conducted in-person with an AHA Instructor.

Heartsaver CPR/AED is not Basic Life Support (which is need for healthcare providers, nursing students, and anyone with direct patient care).  Heartsaver is for the non-healthcare provider.

The skills session can take approximately 1-2 hours. 

Instructor courses are for AHA providers, and offer training so that the instructor will be proficient in teaching and demonstration all the skills of that discipline. You cannot become an instructor without a current certificate in the specific discipline and a mastery of the subject matter. Disciplines include ACLS, BLS, PALS and Heartsaver. Students will need to successfully complete the discipline-specific classroom Instructor Course and be monitored teaching your first course within six months of completing the discipline-specific classroom Instructor Course.
 
Instructor courses are run approximately once a quarter, and are based on demand. In order to become an American Heart Association instructor you need to be currently certified in the discipline in which you wish to become an instructor and be a subject matter expert.  In addition, you need to show alignment with an AHA training center. As part of the process, to acquire your instructor certification you need to be observed teaching one class. Courses are approximately 6 hours long.
 
BLS Instructor Course: $300
Heartsaver Instructor Course: $300
ACLS Instructor Course: $350
PALS Instructor Course: $350


Contact us to register or for more information.

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Quincy Location

Bridgewater Location

Newton Location

The Neonatal Resuscitation Program® (NRP®) course conveys an evidence-based approach to care of the newborn at birth and facilitates e​ffective team-based care for healthcare professionals who care for newborns at the time of delivery. NRP utilizes a blended learning approach, which includes online testing, online case-based simulations, and hands-on case-based simulation/debriefing that focus on critical leadership, communication, and team-work skills.​​

After completion of the online modules, the skills session takes approximately 3 hours.

There are 2 versions of the online portion Essentials and Advanced – Essentials is for those providers that may have to initiate resuscitation but wouldn’t be involved in a full-resuscitation (ex. OBs, midwives, lactation consultants, EMTs) – Advanced is for RNs, RTs, pediatricians that would need to fully resuscitate a newborn including intubation, chest compressions, and medications

The classroom portion is the same for all learners  - so the only difference is in the online curriculum that they choose to purchase. If you are not sure which version you should take then I recommend the Advanced Provider curriculum since the cost is the same for both.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics collaborated to develop PALS Plus, a pediatric advanced life support course designed for more experienced pediatric healthcare professionals seeking advanced educational content. This course teaches more than the standard PALS curriculum through the addition of 9 PALS Advanced eLearning Modules related to pediatric emergencies.

The full course includes an online portion consisting of HeartCode® PALS Online and the student’s selection of at least 6 of the 9 PALS Plus Advanced eLearning Modules, followed by a HeartCode PALS hands-on skills session with an authorized AHA PALS Instructor.

After successful completion of all PALS Plus Provider Course components, students will receive a PALS Plus Provider eCard (a PALS Provider eCard with a special designation of “PALS Plus”), valid for 2 years. Students may select from the following modules:

  • Advanced Airway Management
  • Child Abuse
  • Toxicology
  • Trauma—Overview and Approach
  • Technologically Dependent Child
  • Sedation and Analgesia
  • Post–Cardiac Arrest Care
  • Ultrasound
  • Congenital Heart Disease

Who should take this course?

The PALS Plus Course is for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies, cardiopulmonary arrest, and other emergent and critical conditions in pediatric patients. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units such as physicians, physician assistants, hospitalists, advanced practice/registered nurses, advanced level prehospital providers, and others who desire additional advanced educational content beyond the traditional PALS course.

HeartCode® PALS

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 session. The online portion of this comprehensive eLearning program uses eSimulation technology to allow students to assess and treat patients in virtual healthcare settings.

 

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

PALS is a classroom, video-based, Instructor-led course that uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics.

The Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition, and Stabilization (PEARS) certification course was designed for healthcare providers that infrequently see critically ill children. PEARS prepares a student to assess, categorize, decide and act early to stabilize the child. The main focus of PEARS training is prevention, and specifically the emergency assessment, recognition and stabilization of pediatric victims at risk of severe cardiopulmonary distress. Through unique learning tools, such as video-based simulation, providers can see and hear critically ill children with whom they do not typically come in contact, equipping them to recognize the symptoms of pediatric victims, and thus begin stabilization prior to arrest. This emergency pediatric certification course is video based with instructor-led discussion and simulation. Students participate in, practice and complete various skills and learning stations and are required to pass skills tests, as well as a written test.

Key topics covered are: Pediatric assessment Respiratory compromise and arrest recognition and management Circulatory compromise and arrest recognition and management Shock recognition and management Resuscitation team concept. This course does provide AHA PEARS certification.

The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in BLS, ACLS, and PALS and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the American Heart Association. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course material, do not represent income to the Association.

WHY LEARN?

A bleeding injury can happen anywhere. We've all seen it happen too often—on the news or in everyday life. Life-threatening bleeding can happen in people injured in serious accidents or disasters. Instead of being a witness, you can become an immediate responder because you know how to STOP THE BLEED®.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM THE COURSE

The person next to a bleeding victim may very well be the one who’s most likely to save him or her from bleeding to death. By learning how to STOP THE BLEED®, you’ll gain the ability to recognize life-threatening bleeding and act quickly and effectively to control bleeding once you learn three quick techniques. Take the STOP THE BLEED® training course and become empowered to make a life or death difference when a bleeding emergency happens.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

What stops bleeding? In a STOP THE BLEED® course, you’ll learn three quick techniques to help save a life before someone bleeds out: (1) How to use your hands to apply pressure to a wound; (2) How to pack a wound to control bleeding; (3) How to correctly apply a tourniquet. These three techniques will empower you to assist in an emergency and potentially save a life.

WHO CAN TAKE THE COURSE

A STOP THE BLEED® course is for people who are interested in learning this lifesaving skill. The American College of Surgeons STOP THE BLEED® campaign has trained over 1 million people including students, teachers, and community groups. We are committed to training anyone who is old enough to understand what the course teaches and is interested in learning how to STOP THE BLEED® and save a life.

HOW TO TAKE THE COURSE

The interactive course is a virtual alternative to the in-person lecture presentation. The STOP THE BLEED®Interactive Course guides individuals through the three methods of bleeding control using video demonstrations, interactive learning, and spontaneous quizzes. This STOP THE BLEED® Interactive Course is free. Once you complete the course, please attend a STOP THE BLEED® skills session in order to receive your certificate of completion. Please remember to bring the e-mail with your quiz results to the Skills-Only Course!

Click Here for the STOP THE BLEED online course

COST

Stop the Bleed course can be added to any BLS provider or Heartsaver Provider course in the QUINCY location after completing the STOP THE BLEED® online course. $30

Every second counts when stabilizing life-threatening trauma cases. This course, taught by qualified emergency nurses, prepares you with the knowledge, critical thinking skills and hands-on training needed to provide high-quality, trauma nursing care. After completing this course, you will be able to properly assess and implement evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for your patients.

Here’s a glimpse into what you’ll learn:

  • The latest trauma nursing practice recommendations 
  • Systematic assessment and application of care
  • Rapid identification of life-threatening injuries

TNCC, 9th Edition, is here!

This new and improved edition brings exciting new features and course structure.

Exciting new features, include:

  • Virtual learning modules including avatar-based simulation
  • Interactive teaching strategies
  • Electronic, open-book testing - No more test anxiety!
  • Updated evidence-based provider manual
  • One and a half-day course
  • 18.25 contact hours of CNE

Course Format

A variety of learning methodologies are included to cater to every learning style, including:

  • Textbook
  • Online modules
  • Live simulation
  • Instructor-led classroom discussions and skill stations

Textbook: The latest edition of the TNCC Trauma Nursing Core Course Provider Manual includes evidence-based content developed by trauma emergency experts. The 24-chapter, comprehensive manual is a compilation of current trauma nursing standards and a valuable resource for future reference.

Online learning: Online modules with links to additional information are provided prior to the course date to let you learn at your own pace, apply what you learn and receive immediate feedback, and refer back to information at any time. The modules are a complete case study process — taking you through an entire sequence of care.

Live simulation: TNCC includes hands-on training using both an individual and team approach.  Trauma nursing process psychomotor skills stations offer you the opportunity to practice trauma patient assessments and interventions in a controlled environment.

Instructor-led classroom discussions and skill stations: TNCC is a one and a half-day intensive course taught by expert instructors.

TNCC Fast Track course option now available! TNCC Fast Track is an abbreviated version of the TNCC, 8th Edition, course. It was developed for nurses who need to renew their TNCC verification card and are more comfortable with independent study. These students will attend a portion of the didactic instruction and take the same skill station and online exam assessment required for course completion. A four-year verification card is awarded upon successful course completion.

Why is ENA’s TNCC the right course for you?

  • Evidence-based content developed by trauma nursing experts
  • Curriculum designed specifically for nurses
  • Course education is updated regularly as trauma care evolves
  • 4-year, internationally recognized verification as a TNCC provider is earned upon successful completion
  • Increase your confidence in trauma patient care
  • TNCC courses available year-round at locations conveniently located near you 
  • Earn 18.3 contact hours of CNE

Prerequisites

  • Participants must be an RN and possess a current unrestricted nursing license to receive verification
  • LPNs and paramedics are eligible to attend all portions of the course except for the written and psychomotor evaluations. For this reason, they do not receive verification, but are awarded contact hours

Course Materials

TNCC Trauma Nursing Core Course Provider Manual is required for the course. You can pick up the textbook ahead of time or we can ship it to you. You will need to pay for shipping and handling. 

 

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