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20 02, 2019

Get Continuing Education Hours with Health Care Recertification Courses

2025-12-11T11:58:58-08:00February 20th, 2019|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Classes, Education|

The beauty of an education in a health care-related field is that it is never complete. You will constantly be learning something new. The reasons for this are many, but most particularly, you will need to continue your education to keep up-to-date with new research findings and changes in practice, and to ensure that you retain your edge in your health care practice. Continuing education courses in health care give you a balanced approach to your daily practice. Continuing [...]

15 02, 2019

The New Emphasis on the Suspected Opioid Overdose Emergency Algorithm

2020-01-01T20:23:43-08:00February 15th, 2019|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Education|

Part of any ACLS training these days or even BLS training for that matter is an emphasis on recognizing and treating opioid overdoses. Nearly every urban and even rural area across the country has been affected by this epidemic in some way, leaving health care practitioners feeling at loose ends for how to address it. With your ACLS training, you’ll know how to recognize and address this situation carefully. With your quick wits and your healthy knowledge base for emergency [...]

13 02, 2019

Visual, Auditory, Reading or Kinesthetic? ACLS Instruction for Every Type of Learner

2020-01-01T20:22:00-08:00February 13th, 2019|Categories: ACLS, Education|

Getting your ACLS accreditation requires taking a multi-day class and passing both a written and a hands-on test in most cases. This is done to assure the instructors that you have the knowledge it takes to quickly respond to life-threatening emergencies and even to lead others around you in life-saving techniques. However, if you have not done well with college classes or tests in the past, you may be wondering how easy it will be to learn the information in [...]

8 02, 2019

5 Top Tips for Learning Your ACLS Algorithms

2019-06-24T13:28:32-07:00February 8th, 2019|Categories: ACLS, Classes, Education|

Are you feeling stressed and nervous about your upcoming ACLS examination? You are certainly not alone. Nearly every person who has taken this test will admit to feeling at least some nerves as they prepped for the final examination and the mega code. However, the key for most people is to have the algorithm well-memorized. When you can easily pull any algorithm out of your head and know the exact order of steps, you’ll be ready to treat your mannequin-patient [...]

1 02, 2019

Documentation During a Life-Threatening In-Hospital Event

2025-11-18T14:10:03-08:00February 1st, 2019|Categories: ACLS, Education|

When you’re busy trying to save your patient’s life, probably the last thing on your mind is paperwork. After all, if you’re like most health care practitioners, paperwork is always to be dreaded and is only done because it’s required to be completed by law. While documentation during a code certainly is required by law, you should understand that there are actually some other good reasons to get it done. In fact, it may even help you provide better [...]

25 01, 2019

CPR or Defibrillation First? A Look at the Best Practice for Treating Ventricular Fibrillation

2020-03-29T19:02:10-07:00January 25th, 2019|Categories: CPR Training Articles, Education|Tags: |

One of the stickiest issues as you deal with V-fib is knowing when you should defibrillate the patient and when you should continue with CPR. CPR is obviously necessary for perfusing the brain and the heart muscle, but defibrillation is vital for getting the heart back into a rhythm through which it can perfuse the body itself. As a new provider or as an experienced provider uncertain about the latest changes made in 2015 by the ACLS, you may find [...]

9 01, 2019

What’s the Difference Between a Paramedic and an EMT?

2019-09-19T23:51:46-07:00January 9th, 2019|Categories: Career Programs, Education, EMT Training|

When you hear the words EMT and paramedic, you might immediately think of those people who hop out of the backs of ambulances to help individuals in emergency situations. However, an EMT is actually different from a paramedic. While both may occasionally do some of the same tasks, one has a bit more education, training, experience and skills than the other. Differences in Training The most obvious difference between EMTs and paramedics is in their education. EMTs follow a fairly [...]

2 01, 2019

5 Tips for Moving from General Floor to Critical Care Nursing

2020-01-01T20:19:03-08:00January 2nd, 2019|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Education|

If you are like many nurses, you may be looking for a way to advance your career or get into a new field in nursing to breathe new life into your career. If you work in a large enough hospital, one option that may be easily open to you is a transition into critical care nursing. It may initially seem frightening to consider going into this type of nursing. After all, the ICU nurse routinely saves lives, and you may [...]

28 12, 2018

5 Tips for Passing Your ACLS Examination the First Time

2025-10-30T10:15:12-07:00December 28th, 2018|Categories: ACLS, Advanced Nursing, Career Programs|

It can be scary to take an Advanced Cardiac Life Support class for the first time. You may feel totally out of your element and may feel as if you know less than any of the others around you. While these feelings of low confidence are normal, you can do some things yourself to improve your experience. Specifically, you can follow these five tips to help you ace your certification exam the first time you take it. Learn to [...]

26 12, 2018

The Most Commonly Used Drugs in Advanced Cardiac Life Support

2020-01-01T20:20:34-08:00December 26th, 2018|Categories: ACLS, Advanced Nursing, Education|

When you are helping patients in a health care facility, medications become an integral part of many of your treatments. This is especially true in the case of life-threatening conditions when code blues are called. As you study your algorithms in preparation for your ACLS certification or renewal, you’ll quickly find that the following medications are frequently seen throughout many treatment pathways. Atropine Atropine is the drug of choice for improving very slow heart rates. It is used as part [...]

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