Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor Essentials - ACLS (AHA 2020)

Instructional Hours: 4.00
This course has a Canvas component which requires internet access.

Course Objective: To ensure that AHA ACLS instructor candidates have the didactic, practical, and pedagogical knowledge in order to successfully perform their duties as a AHA ACLS instructor.

Course Description: 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.

Successful Completion: Students must attend all class sessions and successfully pass the final exam. Completion of the AHA ACLS Instructor Essentials Course does not qualify the participant as an AHA ACLS instructor. It is one step in the process of becoming an instructor. Completion of this course along with successful completion of a hands-on sessions to demonstrate proficiency of skills, as well as a monitored teach-back for the AHA ACLS program that you wish to teach, is required to be recognized as an AHA ACLS instructor.

Continuing Education: This continuing education activity is approved by the American Heart Association, an organization accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Pre-Hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE), for 1.25 Educator CEHs, activity number 21-AMHA-F3-0024.

Prerequisites

Students must be a current, licensed Maryland advanced life support clinician who has completed MFRI Instructor I and Instructor II; is a current MFRI ALS MICRB instructor and have taken the most recent version (and within the last two years) of the AHA ACLS course. To register, students must first contact the ALS Coordinator for approval at als@mfri.org