PALS Individual Training

PALS Course Overview

This advanced course builds on skills learned in a Basic Life Support (BLS) course. It teaches you how to identify when pediatric patients are in a pre-arrest condition and how to provide proper resuscitation techniques and post-resuscitation care, depending on their size and age. Participants in the course will also learn how to reduce the risk of cardiac arrest and death in infants and children.

Who Should Take This Course?

The PALS course is an advanced course designed for healthcare professionals in emergency response, intensive care, emergency medicine and critical care units. Learning PALS techniques in a group environment emphasizes high-performance team dynamics — a critical skill in emergencies.

Key Learning Objectives

This course will teach you various pediatric life support training, assessment, recognition and stabilization techniques. Specifically, you'll unpack the following key learning objectives:

• Recognition and proper interventions to prevent respiratory and cardiac arrest
• Priorities for infants and children with respiratory or circulatory emergencies
• Assessment techniques, including initial impression, primary and secondary assessments and diagnostic tests
• Post-resuscitation care and management strategies
• Effective communication and team dynamics, such as individual roles and responsibilities

Course Formats and Options

Lifework Education offers our courses in various formats to best suit your situation. Choose your course format from the options below:

• In-person: Our in-person PALS course includes a lecture and hands-on skills portion to receive your certification. Many participants prefer the in-person format to learn skills and ask questions in real time with our instructors.
• Blended: Blended course options are partly online and in-person. You will complete the lecture portion online using modules, and the skills portion will be supervised by an instructor. The benefits of a blended course include learning the content at your own pace while still developing hands-on skills with our instructors.
• Online: Lifework Education's virtual PALS course is 100% online. The lecture portion is divided into various modules, and skills are taught via video call. Participants who work full-time or otherwise have busy schedules prefer the flexibility of the online course.