Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider 1-Day Course

This one-day American Heart Association (AHA) ACLS Provider Update Course has been updated to reflect new science in the 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC, as well as the 2019 Update to the 2018 ASA Ischemic Stroke Guidelines. ACLS teaches the importance of preventing cardiac arrest, high-performance teams, continuous high-quality CPR, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, post-cardiac arrest care, acute dysrhythmias, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The goal of the ACLS Update Course is to improve outcomes for adult patients of cardiac arrest and other cardiopulmonary emergencies through early recognition and interventions by high-performance teams.

This course expects that you have prior knowledge and experience in the following areas and only require review to complete this course:

• Systematic approach (assessment)
• High-quality BLS
• Airway Management
• Rhythm recognition
• Defibrillation
• Use of medications
• Cardioversion
• Transcutaneous pacing
• High-performance teams

Please note: If you have a current AHA ACLS card please bring it with you to class. Students do not need to have a current AHA ACLS Card to take this course, however if you do not pass your written exam or megacode skills and you do not have a current AHA ACLS Card to show your instructor, you will not be allowed to remediate. You will need to take the ACLS Provider 2-Day course at the full price. Please bring a copy of your current card with you to class.

Card: After course completion criteria are met, a card valid for two years will be issued via email within 3-5 business days after the class date.

IMPORTANT:If you already have an AHA account please provide the email address associated with your AHA account during registration. Your eBook is only able to be sent to one email account, once we have issued the eBook it cannot be re-sent to a different email.

Cost:$269

Requirements to Pass: Skill testing and written testing are required to pass this course. 

Course Manual: Your ACLS Provider Manual eBook will be emailed to you within 3 business days of registration to the email address you provide during registration. Please check junk/spam for an email from eLearning.heart.org if after 3 business days it is not in your inbox. If you would prefer a hard copy book instead of an ebook you must email lifesupportprograms@inova.org immediately after you complete registration and provide the class and date registered for and the local personal mailing address you would like the hard copy book sent to. Note if you open the ebook it is non-refundable.

Required Pre-Course Work: Please bring a printed copy of both your precourse self-assessment score report with a score of 70% or better AND your certificate of completion for the precourse work video lessons. Details about the precourse self-assessment and precourse work can be found in the student letter in the confirmation email you will receive after registering. Please note, you will NOT be admitted to the class if you do not bring both a copy of your precourse self-assessment score report and precourse preparation certificate.


Room: Lower Level Classroom 3

Who should enroll: Personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, as well as others who require an ACLS course completion card for a job or other requirements and have taken an ACLS class previously.

Area of Interest: Advanced Life Support

Location notes: We are located on ICPH campus, Inova Well Joan and Russell Hitt Center for Healthy Living; 8100 Innovation Park Drive, Fairfax, VA 22031 Lower Level. Enter the building via the main entrance on Innovation Park Drive (under the sky bridge), take elevators down to lower level and follow signs to the appropriate classroom.

Cross streets: Gallows Road and Peterson Discovery Drive

Parking notes: Please allow extra time for parking and walking to the classroom as the parking lot is very busy. From the parking lot follow Innovation Park Drive to enter the main entrance of building 8100. Take lobby elevators down to the lower level.

Public transportation: Yes

Handicap access: Yes

Refund policy: Please click here to read the cancelation, Refund, Transfer & Weather Policy.

Weather policy: Information about cancelations due to inclement weather or an area emergency can be obtained by calling the Inova Well weather hotline at 571-472-1438. Class cancelations do not always follow local public school closings. To reschedule or request a refund for cancelation due to inclement weather or other unforeseen circumstances call 571-472-1401. Classes not rescheduled within 30 days of cancelation will automatically be refunded to the credit card used for registration. These non-registrant initialed cancelations, refunds and transfers will not incur a 20% processing fee.

What to bring: You must bring to class:

1. A printed copy of your ACLS precourse self-assessment score report with a 70% or better score

2. A printed copy of your AHA precourse work certificate for completing the video lessons and self-assessment

You will NOT be admitted to the class if you do not bring both your score report and certificate.

Note you must complete a new precourse self-assessment and precourse work video lessons for each time you renew your ACLS.

If students do not have assignments printed they must have it ready for the instructor to view on their electronic device. Please note instructors will NOT be able to help students search for their score report and certificate electronically. If the student cannot show the instructor their score report and precourse work self assessment and video lessons certificate of completion by 8:00 am the student will not be able to stay and attend class.