The ACLS Instructor Essentials (ACLS IE) course raises the bar in resuscitation instructor education

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.

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.

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Prerequisites

- Must be a healthcare provider who provides advanced emergency care in Canada as defined within their scope of practice

- Current Heart & Stroke Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certificate

- Current Heart & Stroke Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider Certificate

- Successful completion of the Heart & Stroke Core Instructor Course

- Submit an instructor application and pay application fee

Duration

Mix of self-paced, online learning and 16 hrs in classroom setting

Materials

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Instructor Manual: RE5620E (print or eBook)

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Provider Manual: RE5610E (print or eBook)

ACLS Course Videos USB (RE5650E-USB) 

2020 Handbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care for Healthcare Providers: RE0130E (print only)

Course Completion

Successful completion of the instructor course permits the candidate to pursue the next steps in the instructor onboarding process. To complete your instructor certification you will be required to be monitored while teaching a full 2 day ACLS course (this process is separate from the completion of this course).