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ProPALS is a Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider Course designed for healthcare providers that direct or participate in the management of respiratory and cardiovascular emergencies in pediatric patients. The goal of this course is to train healthcare providers to recognize respiratory emergencies, shock, and cardiopulmonary emergencies in pediatric patients, and to train healthcare providers to intervene with high quality individual and team skills. When you have successfully completed this course you should be able to do the following for pediatric patients: Recognize cardiac arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds of starting the primary assessment. You should be able to perform high-quality CPR per current basic life support recommendations and guidelines. You should be able to identify whether or not a patient requires immediate intervention, provide pediatric advanced life support per current recommendations and guidelines, recognize and treat respiratory distress and failure, identify and treat compensated and decompensated shock, interpret core arrhythmias and manage stable and unstable patients by using appropriate medications and electrical therapy, describe the signs and symptoms of an unstable patient with an arrhythmia, perform as an effective team leader and apply team dynamics and implement post-cardiac arrest management. In order to be successful in this course one will need to have a foundation of previously acquired advanced level skills. Depending upon your licensure level and area of expertise, you’re expected to be proficient in the skills of placing an advanced airway such as an endotracheal tube, obtaining vascular access with an IO or an IV, recognizing basic arrhythmias, performing defibrillation and cardioversion, and knowing basic pharmacology information that includes the indications, contraindications ALS medications and the different approved methods for the administration of those meds. There are three parts to completing this ProPALS certification. First, is to complete the video training. If you are recertifying and feel completely confident with your retained PALS information, you may opt to skip the training and go directly to the skill scenarios, and that’s perfectly fine. The second step of completion would be to pass all of the skill scenarios. A ProPALS participant will have the opportunity to interact and put PALS knowledge into practice by actively participating as the team leader in simulated case scenarios. These scenarios will allow you to practice identifying and treating pediatric conditions by applying a systematic approach to pediatric assessment using current PALS algorithms and practicing effective resuscitation team dynamics. One will not be able to take the final test until they have passed all of the skill scenarios with a 100%. The reason that we’ve required that 100% skills passing during the scenario based testing is because, unlike other courses, that maybe are not so specific and not as technical, ACLS and PALS both have extremely critical techniques, medications, doses and procedures. We know as healthcare professionals to healthcare professionals, no one would want to risk, or chance, not knowing what to do or doing something incorrectly that could cost our patient their life. So we believe you’ll appreciate the fact that we require full mastery of those skill scenarios that you’re going to be taking. Now the third and final step to completion is to pass the final exam. The video training is always available to review as often as you like. It is a valuable tool that will help you gain knowledge of pediatric advanced life support skills. Also, don't forget to download and review the student manual which includes PALS treatment algorithms and ECG recognition. In fact, it even includes some other details that we thought may not work as well in a video format. So if you believe, after going through the videos, that you’ve missed some particular content, don’t hesitate to download the workbook for those finer details. This will be a helpful guide throughout the course.
This ProPALS course is specifically for healthcare providers who directly participate in the management of respiratory and cardiovascular emergencies in pediatric patients. In this lesson, we'll explain the course objectives and what you'll gain from the course, along with what's required to complete the course.
The goal of this PALS course is two-fold:
After successfully completing ProPALS, you should be able to provide the following skills and knowledge to all pediatric patients.
Pro Tip #1: To be successful in the ProPALS course, you should already have a foundation of previously acquired advanced level skills.
Depending on your licensure level and areas of expertise, you will be expected to be proficient in the following skills.
There are three parts of the ProPALS course that need to be completed:
Though video training will be instrumental for most of you, it is not a strict requirement for those of you who are taking this course for recertification reasons. (Though it pays to make sure you know all current guidelines, as these tend to change.)
If you feel confident that you've retained all of your PALS information from a previous trip through this course, you may opt to skip the video training.
It's important that you're able to pass all skills scenarios, and for this reason, we've set up ProPALS so that you cannot take the final exam until all skills scenarios have been passed with perfect scores of 100 percent.
In these simulated case skills scenarios, you'll have the opportunity to interact and put your PALS knowledge into practice, as you actively participate as the team leader. The skills scenarios will allow you to practice identifying and treating pediatric conditions by applying a systematic approach to pediatric assessment using current PALS algorithms and practicing effective resuscitation team dynamics.
Why must you score 100 percent on all skills scenarios before moving on to the final exam?
Pediatric advanced life support includes extremely critical and precise techniques, medications, dosages, and procedures. You know how getting close is good enough when playing horseshoes? With PALS, extreme precision is the only thing that's good enough.
One day, you'll be very thankful for your mastery of the vital skills scenarios that you'll gain from these strict course requirements.
Pro Tip #2: As healthcare professionals ourselves, we know that you don't want to take any chances or unnecessary risks, and this includes not being exactly sure what to do in all situations. Remember, not recognizing a condition or responding incorrectly could literally be the difference between someone living and someone dying.
After watching all the video training and scoring perfect scores on all skills scenarios, it's time to take the final exam. And pass it, of course!
The video training is a valuable tool to help you gain real-world knowledge of pediatric advanced life support skills. Remember, they're always available, so you can review them whenever you like and as many times as you need.
However, we also have a ProPALS student manual that you can download and review. The manual includes information on PALS treatment algorithms and ECG recognition and even some additional information that the videos do not. Sadly, not all material works perfectly in a video format.
You'll be much better served by using the student manual in conjunction with the video content. However, if you don't use the manual and you find yourself with questions or feeling like you're missing out on crucial content, there's a good chance you'll find those answers and some finer details in the manual.
In case you missed the link to the student manual, you can download your copy here. (coming soon)