Continuing Education

AHA Courses

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The American Heart Association’s eLearning modules

The ALS Modules are eLearning modules designed for advanced healthcare providers seeking additional content beyond ACLS and those seeking Continuing Education (CE) Credit. The modules are presented in the form of adaptive, self-directed learning content. Students follow an adapting learning path that is personalized by their own inputs: their performance and their self-reported confidence level related to each probing question.

Who should take these courses?

The AHA’s ALS Modules are designed for providers who are seeking additional content beyond the ACLS Provider Course content and/or seeking CE credit. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, and others.

Before taking ALS Modules, students should have a mastery of BLS and ACLS cognitive information. However, there is no requirement/prerequisite to complete a BLS or ACLS Provider Course prior to taking an ALS Module.

Continuing Ed AHA Course List

  • 1 hour, 0.5 - 0.75 possible CEH

    Maternal Cardiac Arrest (MCA) is a life-threatening event that may occur in any healthcare setting, even outside the hospital. Cardiac arrest in this population poses unique challenges to a healthcare team since there are critical actions affecting two patients. The ALS: Maternal Cardiac Arrest Module explores the why of MCA and how to treat pregnant cardiac arrest patients within a hospital. 

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 1 hour, 0.25 - 0.5 possible CEH

    The ALS: Advanced Airway Management Module is designed to teach providers how to evaluate and determine the need for an advanced airway in patients. This course provides instruction on the strategies of oxygen monitoring and delivery prior to advanced airway placement. It also demonstrates the strategies and goals of advanced airway insertion, troubleshooting issues, ensuring proper placement, and monitoring the patient. 

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 1 hour, 0.25 - 0.5 possible CEH

    The Trauma Module describes the systematic evaluation of a trauma patient including performing initial lifesaving maneuvers. This course includes assessment, approaches, and treatment of systematic evaluation of a trauma patient, key concerns during an assessment, adjuncts to the primary trauma survey, airway obstruction maneuvers and securing the airway, identifying shock and providing treatment, hemodynamic instability, and hemorrhage control, trauma resuscitation, permissive hypotension, massive transfusions, traumatic brain injury, burn injuries, and musculoskeletal injuries.

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 1 hour, 0.25 - 0.5 possible CEH

    The ALS: Advanced ECG Module describes more complex arrhythmias, such as second and third-degree heart blocks, wide complex tachycardia, and narrow complex tachycardia.  

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 1 hour, 0.25 - 0.75 possible CEH

    The Mechanical Circulatory Systems Module describes the introduction to mechanical circulatory support, general concepts of patient selection, and types of percutaneous mechanical circulatory support.

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 1 hour, 0.25 - 0.5 possible CEH

    The ALS: Procedural Sedation Module covers pre-procedural considerations for the use of procedural sedation, including identification of the levels of sedation and when sedation becomes general anesthesia. The course describes how to evaluate patients prior to, during, and post-procedural sedation. It educates providers on equipment needed for monitoring patients, common medications to use, as well as reversal agents to have on hand to safely perform procedural sedation. Criteria for a safe discharge post-sedation are also covered.

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 1 hour, 0.75 possible CEH

    The ALS: Respiratory Emergencies Module covers several of the most common respiratory emergencies including severe asthma, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, anaphylaxis, peri-intubation arrest, pulmonary embolism, and noncardiogenic pulmonary edema. It educates students on the identification of signs and symptoms, descriptions of treatments, potential complications, and considerations. The goal of this module is how to treat these respiratory emergencies before they lead to cardiac arrest.

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 2 hour, 2 possible CEH

    The American Heart Association’s ACLS Prep: ECG Course is a self-directed eLearning course designed for students preparing to take an AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Course. After the course, you will be able to explain heart anatomy and basic electrophysiology, explain normal ECG measurements, and recognize and understand the basic arrhythmias

    This course is also ideal for healthcare professionals who require basic rhythm recognition skills related to the ACLS algorithms. This includes telemetry staff, non-critical/emergency nurses, emergency medical services personnel, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, non-critical/emergency physicians, and dentists. 

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 1 hour, 1 possible CEH

    The American Heart Association’s ACLS Prep: Pharmacology Course is a self-directed eLearning course designed for students preparing to take an AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Course. After the course you will be able to list basic ACLS drugs and their usage, identify ACLS medication doses and routes of administration during cardiovascular emergencies, apply basic pharmacology into the ACLS algorithms

    This course is also ideal for healthcare professionals who require basic drug interaction understanding related to the ACLS algorithms. This includes non-critical/emergency nurses, emergency medical services personnel, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, non-critical/emergency physicians, and dentists. 

    This eLearning course features True Adaptive™ learning, where students follow a learning path personalized by their own inputs and self-reported confidence level. Register for the course here.

  • 3 hours, 3 possible CEH

    The American Heart Association’s ACLS Prep: ECG & Pharmacology Bundle conveniently combines both the ACLS Prep: ECG and ACLS Prep: Pharmacology eLearning Courses into one convenient bundle for students who are preparing to take an AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Course. These courses are also ideal for healthcare professionals who require basic rhythm recognition and/or pharmacology knowledge related to the ACLS algorithms.

  • .5 hour, no CEC credits

    The AHA’s Opioid Education for Healthcare Providers Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need an understanding of the opioid epidemic, pathophysiology of opioids, and special considerations on how to care for overdose patients.

    Opioid Education for Healthcare Providers uses a variety of eLearning assets such as self-directed learning and interactive activities to teach Opioid Education. This method of learning provides training consistency, adaptability to different learning styles, and flexibility for the student and employer’s time. Students can work at their own pace, applying their knowledge and skills development.

    Register for the course here.