Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)

BOPN Medical Education proudly offers official American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) courses, designed to equip healthcare professionals with the critical thinking, rapid decision-making, and practical skills essential for managing cardiovascular emergencies. All ACLS courses are taught by certified AHA instructors who actively practice in emergency, critical care, and transport medicine, ensuring training that is current, relevant, and deeply informed by frontline clinical experience.

Courses are available in both traditional in-person formats and convenient hybrid options that blend online learning with essential hands-on skill sessions. Whether seeking initial certification or renewal, participants will benefit from realistic scenarios, engaging instruction, and a supportive environment tailored to professional schedules.

What You’ll Learn

Preparing for a Resuscitation

  • You will gain hands-on experience with the equipment that you will actually be using in a resuscitaiton.

  • You will work with clinicians who have extensive resuscitation experience and who are actively working in the field. They will provide you with powerful insight on how to keep calm in a chaotic situation.

Performing a Resuscitation

  • You will learn the ACLS algorithm, which lays out all of the decision points and how to react based upon the various presentations of clinical deterioration and cardiopulmonary arrest that you will encounter in your practice.

  • In the online portion of the course, you will learn how to recognize signs of emergent conditions and clinical deterioration as well as how to perform a resuscitation. In the in-person portion of the course, your instructors will teach you to adapt what you have learned to your individual practice environment, whether that be a hospital unit, emergency department, ambulance, or community setting.

Leading a Team

  • You will learn and practice techniques to communicate effectively with team members. Effective communication has the power to transform a chaotic resuscitation into one that is efficient and effective.

  • You will learn the basics of performing team debriefings that will help you and your colleagues to learn from each resuscitation and ensure that you are providing the best care possible.

Course FAQ

  • Once the in-person portion of your course is completed, your instructor will update the AHA system to indicate that you have completed the course - this will be completed the day of the course. Once the AHA system has been updated, you will be able to log in, complete a brief survey, and download your ACLS card.

    If you need your card immediately, please let your instructor know so that they can expedite the update on the Learning Platform site.

  • YES! You will be able to receive your card on the same day of the class.

  • NO. The online content created by the AHA is a self-paced version of the in-person course that we teach. Given the time needed to complete the online portion and the skills verification, the in-person course requires about the same time commitment.

    The primary difference is that, with an in-person course, you have the benefit of our highly experienced instructors being there to provide guidance and answer questions. They also are great at making the class fun, interesting, and engaging.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS

GEOFFREY

BROOKE

Your instructors, Brooke Holoubek and Geoffrey Kerns both work as flight nurses and have extensive backgrounds in adult, pediatric, and neonatal resuscitaiton.

Brooke has an extensive background in pediatric critical care and pediatric and neonatal transport, while Geoffrey has spent almost 20 years working in emergency medicine and EMS. Together, they provide comprehensive neonatal critical care training that is able to break down the communication barriers that typically exist between emergency and neonatal providers.