An enhanced course designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to effectively deliver Heart & Stroke Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support provider course

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Are you ready to take your ACLS knowledge and skills to the next level? Heart & Stroke’s leading-edge ACLS Instructor Essentials course will empower you to create new ACLS instructors, enabling you to deliver dynamic case scenarios that mirror real-life cardiovascular emergencies. You’ll have the opportunity to play different roles while participating in and leading high-performance teams. Some of the life-threatening scenarios that you’ll be tackling head on will involve systems of care, immediate post-cardiac arrest care, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes. The result: our ACLS IE course will equip you to teach, evaluate and improve the core ACLS skills of your students.

Aligning with the 2020 guidelines, our ACLS IE course provides both online and hands-on learning to develop your ACLS instructional skills. Heart & Stroke has also incorporated multiple elements from the 2018 AHA Scientific Statement “Resuscitation Education Science: Educational Strategies to Improve Outcomes From Cardiac Arrest” to enhance the delivery and retention of core resuscitation skills.

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Available exclusively in a blended learning format

The ACLS IE course is made up of two essential components:

• The online component, which will focus on administering the ACLS course and sharpening your instructor skills to deliver critical ACLS concepts during the course’s in-classroom component.

• The two-day in-classroom component, in which you will be able to dive in and facilitate all ACLS Provider course lessons, emphasizing the building and refining of core ACLS instructor skills.

 

What you’re expected to know to attend this course

To excel in Heart & Stroke’s ACLS Instructor Essentials course, you will need to possess the knowledge and clinical proficiency* in the following:

• High-quality BLS, including team resuscitation and CPR coaching;

• ACLS patient management skills and knowledge, including recognition of common cardiac ECG rhythms, cardiac pharmacology, and management of airways / airway adjuncts.

• High-performance team skills, including delivery of prebriefing, coaching and closed-loop communication; and

• Practical experience in the management of complex cardiovascular emergency cases.