OVERVIEW

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Instructor Essentials Online is organized by American Heart Association (AHA).

Description:
PALS Instructor Essentials Online is the self-directed, online portion of the PALS Instructor Essentials blended learning course. It covers the steps for becoming an AHA Instructor and steps of the instruction cycle: Prepare, Teach, Test & Remediate, Close, and Keep Current. It includes core information about instructing AHA PALS Provider courses, followed by course-specific information.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion, participants should be able to:

Identify the prerequisites to becoming an AHA Instructor
Describe the usability of the Program Administration Manual
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
Demonstrate prebriefing and structured debriefing skills
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 and the effect on team choreography
Describe how to facilitate the learning and testing stations
Demonstrate facilitating the case scenario skills testing