Class Enrollment

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)- RENEWAL (Please Read Course Description)
Date/Time:	Tue 6/3/2025 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Location:	Holy Name Community Training Center-718 Teaneck Rd. Teaneck, NJ 07666
Class Price:	See Options

Course Prerequisites:

• Current Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support CPR Card 
• Current and valid ACLS Card

The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers skills; emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. ACLS also covers airway management and related pharmacology.

The ACLS Renewal course covers:

The ACLS Renewal course is a shorten version of the ACLS Initial course. You may register for the renewal course only if your card is still valid.  In order to prove the card is valid, you must show up to the class with the original AHA ACLS card that is not expired.  We will only honor the expiration date on the card until the end of the month it is set to expire on.

The ACLS Course includes;

• Key changes in advanced cardiovascular life support, reflecting the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
• Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device and use of an (AED)
• Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
• Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
• Airway management
• Related pharmacology
• Management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and stroke
• Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
• Effective Resuscitation Team Dynamics

HNMC employees can borrow a book at the Simulation Center office on 4 West.  A payroll deduction form will be completed by all employees prior to borrowing a book. Once the Book is returned, the payroll deduction form will be discarded.  

Pre-Course Information

Complete the AHA ACLS Pre-Course Self Assessment, print your scores and bring them with you to class.

The ACLS course does not teach algorithms, ECG rhythm recognition, or pharmacology. If you do not learn and understand the ECG and pharmacology information in the Pre-course Self-Assessment, it is unlikely that you can successfuly complete the ACLS provider course.

Please note that you will not be taught how to read or interpret ECGs in the course, nor will you be taught deatails about ACLS pharmacology.