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ACLS Instructor

Course ID: EMS-3048D4
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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

At the end of the ACLS Instructor
Essentials Course, instructor candidates will be able to
- Identify the prerequisites to becoming an AHA Instructor
- Describe the usability of the PAM
- Describe the core competencies of an AHA Instructor
- Describe the 5 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

Lesson 1: Course Introduction
Lesson 2: AHA Introduction
Part 1: AHA Mission
Part 2: Instructor Core Competencies
Lesson 3: AHA Instructor Resources
Part 1: Program Administration Manual
Part 2: Other Electronic Resources
Part 3: Training Center-Specific Policies
Lesson 4: ACLS Provider Course Preparation
Part 1: Course Paperwork
Part 2: Course Preparation
Lesson 5: ACLS Provider Course Overview (Instructor-Led)
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Course Format
Part 3: Instructor Materials
Part 4: Learning Objectives and Course Completion Requirements
Lesson 6: ACLS Provider Course: Lesson 2A-4
Part 1: Review Feedback Device Requirement
Part 2: CPR Coach
Part 3: Lesson 2A: Learning/Testing Station: High-Quality BLS Practice, Lesson 2B: Learning/Testing
Station: High-Quality BLS Testing-Testing Details
Part 4: Lessons 3A-3C: Learning/Testing Station: Airway Management
Part 5: Lesson 4: Technology Review
Lesson 7: ACLS Provider Course: Prebriefing, Structured and Supported Debriefing, and Lessons
9A-9D
Part 1: Prebriefing
Part 2: Debriefing
Part 3: Lessons 9A-9D: High-Performance Teams: Megacode Practice
Practice Prebriefing, Debriefing, and Megacode (4 cases before lunch)
Lesson 7: ACLS Provider Course: Prebriefing, Structured and Supported Debriefing, and Lessons
9A-9D (Continued)
Remaining 4 cases
ACLS Instructor Essentials Faculty Guide 10
Lesson 8: ACLS Provider Course: Lessons 7-8C
Part 1: Lesson 7: High-Performance Teams
Part 2: Lessons 8A-8C: Learning Station: High-Performance Teams: Cardiac Arrest and Post-Cardiac
Arrest Care
Lesson 9: ACLS Provider Course: Lessons 5A-6C
Part 1: Lessons 5A-5C: Learning Station: Preventing Arrest: Bradycardia
Part 2: Lessons 6A-6C: Learning Station: Preventing Arrest: Tachycardia (Stable and Unstable)
Lesson 10: ACLS Provider Course: Lessons T1-T6
Part 1: Lessons T1-T4: Review and Megacode Testing
Part 2: Lessons T5 and T6: Exam and Exam Details
Part 3: Remediation
Lesson 11: Course Conclusion and Exam
Part 1: Course Conclusion
Part 2: ACLS Instructor Essentials Exam

Contact Hours

CEUs

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

AHA-American Heart Association

Website

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

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

• Be aligned with an AHA TC
- 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.
• Have a current AHA ACLS Provider course completion card
• Be proficient in the skills of ACLS
- To measure the proficiency of the skills of ACLS, be sure to observe instructor candidates during the course. If
you feel that instructor candidates need to be retested in their skills of ACLS, you can include this as part of the
Instructor Essentials Course.
• Complete an Instructor Candidate Application
• Successfully complete the online portion of Instructor Essentials

CE or CU Articulation

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.