2025 ACLS Recertification Course
Date/Time:	Mon 3/9/2026 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Location:	UVES Phoenix Campus Training Center
Class Price:	$260.00

THIS COURSE IS FOR ACLS RECERTIFICATION ONLY! YOU MUST HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN ACLS CERTIFIED.

*** Your textbook is included in the price for this course. You can pick it up during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Please call Amy Polhamus at 607-205-2459, or the book will be brought with the instructor to the class***  

Course Format

In the new 2025 ACLS Provider Course, students complete precourse work before the course, ensuring they are prepared for the course. Pre-course work includes the mandatory Pre-course Self-Assessment, followed by video lessons.

The course is structured as follows:
   • Core concepts are presented online through interactive video lessons. Video lessons are completed before coming to class. Then, Instructors lead discussions and case-based scenarios around a manikin during class.
   • The Instructor coaches students by using a feedback device as they practice CPR and ventilation skills.
   • The Instructor monitors as each student/team demonstrates skills proficiency as outlined in the skills testing checklist.
   • Students take the ACLS Provider Course Exam to confirm their understanding of core concepts.

Audience

The ACLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units, such as physicians, nurses, and paramedics, as well as others who need an ACLS course completion card for jobs or other requirements.

Course Content

In the 2025 ACLS Provider Course, students will learn and practice

• • High-Performance Teams: Emphasizes effective communication and dynamics.
  • High-Quality BLS: Focuses on chest compressions (rate, depth, recoil).
  • Systematic Approach: Covers assessment and management of cardiopulmonary emergencies.
  • Rhythm Recognition & Defibrillation: Identifies and treats life-threatening arrhythmias.
  • Medications & Interventions: Includes IV/IO access, cardioversion, pacing, and advanced drug use.
  • Post-Cardiac Arrest Care: Strategies for improving outcomes after arrest.
  • Stroke & Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS): Recognition and time-sensitive interventions. 

Course Format

Providers who take the ACLS update Course must be proficient in the following:

• Performing high-quality BLS skills according to the current AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC
• Reading and interpreting electrocardiograms (ECGs)
• Understanding ACLS pharmacology
• Providing bag-mask ventilation  

Features

The 2025 ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) course, based on new 2025 Guidelines, focuses on high-performance teams, high-quality CPR, systematic approaches, and recognizing/treating cardiac arrest, stroke, and other emergencies, with updates on medications (like tenecteplase for stroke), airway management (focusing on visible chest rise), and new techniques (like point-of-care ultrasound)

• Skills Testing High-Quality BLS Skills Testing
• Focuses on continuous chest compressions, Megacode Testing
• Assesses students as a team
• Set goals related to chest compression fraction and teamwork, Provider Manual Updates
• Highlights 2 main themes: preventing arrest and high-performance teams
• New information under “Cardiac Arrest: Selected Special Situations” on Maternal cardiac arrest or Ventricular assist devices
• Revised illustrations
• CPR Coach
• Expanded information on high-performance teams

Course Completion Card

The American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course Completion eCard is valid for two years.