PALS Skills Testing

PALS Skills Testing

This skills session is the separate, hands on, in person, psychomotor skills assessment, live, with an AHA Instructor is required to earn a valid AHA PALS Provider eCard that is valid for two years.Updated to reflect the 2025 American Heart Association Guidelines

Online Part 1 sold separately and can be added to registration at checkout, or you may purchase on your own (link below)  Part 1 is called Heartcode PALS Online

Skills Practice and Testing done in Class

Certification Card Issued day of class completion and is issued from the American Heart Association

image of the 'PALS Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider course,' a course by the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, featuring a purple-tinted illustration of a human heart and large purple text 'PALS' on a dark blue background.
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PALS Example Card

About the Course

Course Includes

This is the part 2 skills testing for the blended learning PALS Course.  You will come in person to complete:

Review of PALS Concepts

Pediactric CPR Testing

Megacode (Patient Simulation)

You must complete/Purchase-

Part 1 (Online Portion) Sold Separately and can be obtained at:

https://shopcpr.heart.org/heartcode-pals

Pre Course Self Assessment is also required:

https://elearning.heart.org/course/1639

Certification Issued Same day

AHA (American Heart Association) E-Card issued same day as the course.  Certification card is good for 2 years.

Skills Learned

  • High-quality Child CPR AED and Infant CPR
  • Recognition of patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
  • Recognition of cardiopulmonary arrest early and application of CPR within 10 seconds
  • Apply team dynamics
  • Differentiation between respiratory distress and failure
  • Early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
  • Differentiation between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
  • Early interventions for the treatment of shock
  • Differentiation between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
  • Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
  • Post–cardiac arrest management

Meets requirements for 

Medical Training Programs and schools, Medical Residency, Healthcare provider employment, Such as Nurinsg, EMT/Paramedic, Physicians, Dental Providers, and many more.

The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in all AHA courses and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the AHA. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the AHA.