Pediatric Advanced Life Support (ARC) - Blended Course

This course is presented in two parts:

• an online session
• an instructor-led in-person skills class

The online session of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (ALS) course is designed to be adaptive. Depending on the participant’s experience and familiarity with course content, it can be completed in 3-6 hours. Typical completion time for the online session is approximately 4 hours. Completion of the entire online session, including the evaluation, is required by ARC for admission to the instructor-led class portion of the course.

**If you wish to complete Pediatric Advanced Life Support with a fully online/independent option using bluetooth-enabled manikins for skill testing, do not register for this course; instead, call 608-930-7150 to inquire with the Staff Development Department.**

The American Red Cross Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to assess, recognize and care for pediatric patients who are experiencing a respiratory emergency, shock or a cardiac emergency. When a patient experiences a life-threatening emergency, healthcare providers need to act swiftly and promptly. The course emphasizes providing high-quality patient care by integrating psychomotor skills, rhythm interpretation, electrical interventions and pharmacologic knowledge with critical thinking and problem solving to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

Participants demonstrate competency in the in-person skills session by actively participating in all skill stations; demonstrating competency in all required skills; successfully completing three team response testing scenarios (two BLS team response testing scenarios and a final assessment team response testing scenario); and passing a written final exam (unless this is a blended course; in this case, the exam is completed in the online portion). Upon meeting the criteria for course completion and demonstration of competency, participants will receive a 2-year American Red Cross Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate high-quality basic life support (BLS) skills, including high-quality chest compressions, effective ventilations and use of an AED.
• Apply concepts of effective teamwork when caring for a pediatric patient experiencing a respiratory emergency, shock, or a cardiac emergency.
• Integrate advanced communication, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills when responding as part of a team to a respiratory emergency, shock or a cardiac emergency.
• Apply a systematic, continuous approach to assess, recognize and care for pediatric patient experiencing a respiratory emergency, shock or a cardiac emergency.
• Effectively assess, recognize and care for a pediatric patient experiencing respiratory arrest/failure or cardiac arrest.
• Quickly recognize the nature of a respiratory emergency, shock or a cardiac emergency.
• Provide effective and appropriate pediatric advanced life support care to address a respiratory emergency, shock or a cardiac emergency.
• Provide effective and appropriate care after a return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) during a resuscitation effort.

Continuing Education Credit

11.75 CEH; CME; CNE; CE