AHA PALS Skills Check
Date/Time:	Wed 5/14/2025 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Location:	Best Emergency Services Training, 2411 Robeson Street, Fayetteville NC 28305
Class Price:	$150.00

This Blended Learning (3 Part) class is designed for providers who are adept at learning advanced practices through web-based learning, and have no difficulty in translating that information into a practical application.  For providers taking an PALS course for the first time, or have difficulty with web-based learning, a seated course will offer a better learning enviroment.

Part 1 is the convenient online course that covers the cognitive portion of the course.

Parts 2 & 3 are combined. This is the Hands-on Practice / Skills Test with a BEST Instructor.

This is the skills check only portion (Parts 2 & 3).   You must bring the printed completion certificate with you from the online portion (Part 1) to participate in the skills check. If you are not able to print the completion certificate, please take a screen shot or email the pdf to Studentsupport@bestnc.com before arriving to class.

The PALS Skills Check is for anyone who has purchased and completed the Heartcode OnlinePALS course.

Part 1 a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program that uses eSimulation technology to allow students to assess and treat patients in virtual healthcare setting. To enter the course, students must complete the PALS Precourse Self-Assessment. Students are then presented with 12 In-hospital patient cases and a team dynamics lesson. Cases may be repeated as many times as necessary to pass.

Upon successful completion of all the patient cases, students must pass the written exam with a score of 84%. Students then are able to attend the hands-on session (Parts 2 &3) required for full course completion.

PALS Skills Check Session - This is a hybrid course, part online, part in the classroom. Most students require 4 hours to complete the online portion, however some take as long as 8 hours. The skills session general takes around 90 minutes but can go as long as 3 hours depending on how much hands on time the student needs.

Course Content

• High-quality Child CPR AED and Infant CPR
• Recognition of patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
• Recognition of cardiopulmonary arrest early and application of CPR within 10 seconds
• Apply team dynamics
• Differentiation between respiratory distress and failure
• Early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiation between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
• Early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Differentiation between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Post–cardiac arrest management 

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

• Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies.
• Personnel in emergency response
• Pediatric Emergency medicine
• Pediatric Intensive care
• Pediatric Critical care units such as physicians, nurses, and paramedics