AHA’s Description of HeartCode PALS Course

HeartCode® PALS Part 1 is a web-based, self-directed program that teaches healthcare providers knowledge and skills needed to recognize and prevent cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children. 

This program uses eSimulation technology to allow students to assess and treat patients in virtual healthcare settings. In this environment, students apply their knowledge to real-time decision-making and skills development. Debriefings and coaching are provided immediately after each simulation to facilitate learning about pediatric advanced life support.

HeartCode PALS Part 1 is for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, paramedics and others who need a PALS course completion card and are seeking an alternative (non-classroom) method for completing an initial or update PALS course.

Features

1. Web-based, self-paced eSimulation instructional program for PALS cognitive training
2. Students apply knowledge to real-time decision-making and skills development
3. Debriefings and coaching are provided immediately after each simulation to facilitate learning
4. Access to the PALS Provider Manual, the 2020 Handbook of ECC and 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR & ECC
5. Access to all information in course for two years following activation of course key

Individuals who successfully complete the cognitive skills examination in accordance with the guidelines of the American Heart Association, Maryland Affiliate, Inc., will be awarded a two-year PALS Provider status.

Hopkins Outreach for Pediatric Education was born from collaboration between the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. The genesis of HOPE was a desire to meet a need for continuing education among healthcare providers in Maryland.

Outreach initiatives offered by HOPE will include Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS). PALS courses will be available in the metropolitan Baltimore and surrounding area through a combined effort of public safety agencies, community hospitals and the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Pediatric education will include courses for the local healthcare community, pediatric continuing education programs and an annual symposium dedicated to pediatric trauma and emergencies.

Education of healthcare providers is a critical link in ensuring that the chain of survival functions effectively for critically ill and injured children.