Course Offerings

The ACLS Instructor Essentials Online is the self-directed, online portion of the ACLS Instructor Essentials blended learning Course. Course content covers steps for becoming an AHA ACLS Instructor and steps of the instruction cycle: Prepare, Teach, Test & Remediate, Close, and Keep Current. This course includes core information about instructing AHA ACLS Provider courses, followed by course-specific information.

The ACLS Instructor Essentials Course is designed to prepare instructor candidates to teach AHA Instructor-led and blended learning ACLS Provider courses. It educates instructor candidates on how to use AHA Instructor teaching materials, ensure that students meet learning objectives, offer student coaching skills, provide an objective skills performance evaluation, and follow AHA Instructor and course policies. The course covers core content and discipline-specific content required to teach AHA courses."

Course Objectives

Identify the prerequisites to becoming an AHA Instructor

Describe the usability of the PAM

Describe the core competencies of an AHA instructor

Describe the five steps of the AHA Instruction Cycle: prepare, teach, test and remediate, close and keep current

Identify resources available to an AHA instructor

Describe how to use discipline-specific AHA instructor materials: the instructor manual, lesson plans, course videos and skills-testing checklists

Identify discipline-specific course formats available to students for completion of the course

Describe discipline-specific course completion requirements

Describe discipline-specific flexibility options available to an AHA instructor within the course

Describe the requirements for how to maintain an AHA Instructor status

Describe effective AHA instructor feedback and remediation techniques

Demonstrate the administration of skills testing with the use of the skills-testing checklists

Describe the use of a CPR coach

Identify the need to measure chest compression fraction (CCF) and the effect on team choreography

Demonstrate prebriefing and structured debriefing skills

Describe how to facilitate the learning and testing stations

Demonstrate facilitating the Bradycardia and Megacode Learning Stations

Outline of Instruction

Course Introduction

AHA Introduction (Mission and Instructor Core Competencies)

AHA Instructor Resources (Program Administration Manual, Other Electronic Resources, Training Center-Specific Policies)

ACLS Provider Course Preparation (Course Paperwork and Course Preparation)

ACLS Provider Course Overview (Instructor-Led) (Introduction, Course Format, Instructor Materials, Learning Objectives and Course Completion Requirements)

ACLS Provider Course (Review Feedback Device Requirement, CPR Coach, Learning/Testing Station: High-Quality BLS Practice, Learning/Testing Station: High-Quality BLS Testing-Testing Details, Learning/Testing Station: Airway Management and Technology Review)

Continuation of ACLS Provider Course (Prebriefing, Debriefing, High-Performance Teams: Megacode Practice, ACLS Instructor Essentials Faculty Guide 10)

Continuation of ACLS Provider Course (High-Performance Teams, Learning Station: Cardiac Arrest and Post-Cardiac Arrest Care)

Continuation of ACLS Provider Course (Learning Station: Preventing Arrest: Bradycardia and Learning Station: Preventing Arrest: Tachycardia [Stable and Unstable])

Continuation of ACLS Provider Course (Review and Megacode Testing, Exam and Exam Details and Remediation)

Course Conclusion and Exam (Course Conclusion and ACLS Instructor Essentials Exam)

Contact Hours

16

CEUs

1

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

AHA-American Heart Association

Website

https://cpr.heart.org/en/resources/aha-instructors

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

Instructor candidates must have a TC that has agreed to accept them as an instructor once they have
completed Instructor Essentials and their monitoring is completed, must have a current AHA ACLS Provider course completion card, must be proficient in the skills of ACLS, must pass any retesting needed to measure their ACLS skills proficiency, must complete an Instructor Candidate Application and must successfully complete the online portion of Instructor Essentials.

CE or CU Articulation

No

Prerequisites

ACLS Provider

Learning Supplies Needed

Instructor Essentials, Instructor Manual

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

None

Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance
Score of 84% or higher on written exam,Successful completion of hands-on skills,Monitoring within six months of the last day of the course

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

Advanced healthcare providers who currently hold an active ACLS provider certification.

Specific Industry or Business Support Needs

Advanced healthcare providers such as Paramedic, RN, MD, PA, NP

Wake County Need for Industry Positions

N/A

Industry or Job Titles Related to Training Outcomes for Employment

Related Courses

EMS-3048B4

Course Contact Information

Gabrielle Robinson
919-866-7599
[email protected]