Posted: 5/22/2010 12:47:07 PM EDT
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Hey, Medical guys. Anyone ever recertified ACLS online?
Any suggestions? Website prefs? Alternatively email me a photoshopped card for a small fee!!! 
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. |
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Go to your local Community college and get it done. It is not worth the lawsuit.
Just finished a class and got re-certified today at George Washington University in DC. Don't think you will not get caught if you are involved in a lawsuit. They keep records of certifications. Paid $200.00 for the all day class. Painful but it pays off in the long run. This is my 4th re-renewal. Took the train down from Pennsylvania just to take this class this weekend since my card was about to expire at the end of this month. I really don't think you want to cheat. You can kill someone or their child. Can you live with that? |
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Go to your local Community college and get it done. It is not worth the lawsuit. Just finished a class and got re-certified today at George Washington University in DC. Don't think you will not get caught if you are involved in a lawsuit. They keep records of certifications. Paid $200.00 for the all day class. Painful but it pays off in the long run. This is my 4th re-renewal. Took the train down from Pennsylvania just to take this class this weekend since my card was about to expire at the end of this month. I really don't think you want to cheat. You can kill someone or their child. Can you live with that? No. But having once been an ACLS instructor and considering that ACLS is offered online by AHA I don't consider it cheating. I was JOKING about emailing me a photoshopped card!!! |
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you.
BTW, ACLS is a joke. When I started taking it and became an instructor around 1991, it actually had some value and rigor. No longer. But you are the expert so by all means inform me. |
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you. Then ask them for their help since you are sooo fucking AWESOME..... 
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you. Are you a PACU nurse? I've never done it online, but I'd rather just do the whole thing in person. It's my understanding that you have to arrange to do some of it in person regardless. Doesn't your hospital schedule classes and pay for 'em? I had to do ACLS again last week and my hospital scheduled it and paid me to go. |
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you. Are you a PACU nurse? I've never done it online, but I'd rather just do the whole thing in person. It's my understanding that you have to arrange to do some of it in person regardless. Doesn't your hospital schedule classes and pay for 'em? I had to do ACLS again last week and my hospital scheduled it and paid me to go. Nurse Anesthetist. They have scaled back on classes and it is very difficult to get into one on a day that works for my schedule. It used to be easy to get a class at work. No longer. |
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you. Then ask them for their help since you are sooo fucking AWESOME.....
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. Everyone who can takes it online in my dept. However, you might want to look at your calendar. It is saturday. They don't seem to be around to ask. |
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Quoted: ACLS is not only a waste of time, they are generally two years behind the curve on the latest science. The guidelines haven't changed substantially for a while. My cardiac arrest protocols don't even follow ACLS, although for some reason we still re-cert it every couple of years. Not to mention the double standards of the whole thing since every time I have taken the class with RNs they make the Medics intubate to pass (not that it should be a challenge) while not requiring the nurses to do so. The whole 'you must have all these cards' schtick is annoying and does nothing other than enrich the coffers of the AHA. I would rather spend my CE time actually learning something. I don't need to be reminded what V-fib looks like or that I should give 1 mg Epi every 3-5 min (which isn't even an evidence based intervention) and neither should any Medic who actually works for a living. Quoted: Quoted: Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude....... |
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you. Then ask them for their help since you are sooo fucking AWESOME.....
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. Everyone who can takes it online in my dept. However, you might want to look at your calendar. It is saturday. They don't seem to be around to ask. I would think if "everyone" in your department takes it online, it would be pretty easy to find out how/where they are doing it....right? |
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you. Then ask them for their help since you are sooo fucking AWESOME.....
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. Everyone who can takes it online in my dept. However, you might want to look at your calendar. It is saturday. They don't seem to be around to ask. I would think if "everyone" in your department takes it online, it would be pretty easy to find out how/where they are doing it....right? Yes, on monday. I like you. You keep coming back even when it is hopeless.
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ACLS is not only a waste of time, they are generally two years behind the curve on the latest science. The guidelines haven't changed substantially for a while. My cardiac arrest protocols don't even follow ACLS, although for some reason we still re-cert it every couple of years. Not to mention the double standards of the whole thing since every time I have taken the class with RNs they make the Medics intubate to pass (not that it should be a challenge) while not requiring the nurses to do so. The whole 'you must have all these cards' schtick is annoying and does nothing other than enrich the coffers of the AHA. I would rather spend my CE time actually learning something. I don't need to be reminded what V-fib looks like or that I should give 1 mg Epi every 3-5 min (which isn't even an evidence based intervention) and neither should any Medic who actually works for a living. Quoted:
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Thank you Doctor or medic. I actually read whatever I can about CV resus and ask the cardiac anesthesiologists or the cardiologists whenever I get a chance (when doing a case with them, Pacer implant or such). Off to do the online test portion.
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Funny. The 2 anesthesiologists and the chairman of a very large orthopedics dept. who requested me specifically by name when having their surgery might disagree with you. Then ask them for their help since you are sooo fucking AWESOME.....
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. Everyone who can takes it online in my dept. However, you might want to look at your calendar. It is saturday. They don't seem to be around to ask. I would think if "everyone" in your department takes it online, it would be pretty easy to find out how/where they are doing it....right? Yes, on monday. I like you. You keep coming back even when it is hopeless. He likes me....he really really likes me!!! Just giving you shit, I hate lazy medics/nurses/doctors....all is good. |
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. I've done it for twelve. And will continue going....you need to run a Mega-Code with an AHA ACLS instructor. Quoted:
Not to mention the double standards of the whole thing since every time I have taken the class with RNs they make the Medics intubate to pass (not that it should be a challenge) while not requiring the nurses to do so. Having been both, I don't see an issue with this. There are two VERY different scopes of practice. I was a ICCU RN after being a Paramedic for ten years, the amount of things I could do on the bus compared to in house was frustrating to say the least. Deal with it. |
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ACLS is not only a waste of time, they are generally two years behind the curve on the latest science. The guidelines haven't changed substantially for a while. My cardiac arrest protocols don't even follow ACLS, although for some reason we still re-cert it every couple of years. Not to mention the double standards of the whole thing since every time I have taken the class with RNs they make the Medics intubate to pass (not that it should be a challenge) while not requiring the nurses to do so. The whole 'you must have all these cards' schtick is annoying and does nothing other than enrich the coffers of the AHA. I would rather spend my CE time actually learning something. I don't need to be reminded what V-fib looks like or that I should give 1 mg Epi every 3-5 min (which isn't even an evidence based intervention) and neither should any Medic who actually works for a living. Quoted:
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Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude.......
Dead on comment. It should be remembered that ACLS was designed as a NO FAIL course. The only redemption can come from a class tailored for a service, given by a service like an EMS agency. I remember sitting in a community college recert class wasting time teaching commercial pharmacists what the medications do and what appropriate dosages are. Then there will be the family practitioners who were told they need to take the class and have never seen a code. |
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Then there will be the family practitioners who were told they need to take the class and have never seen a code. I will go under conscious sedation at my Periodontist office in August. You bet your ass I asked to see the crash cart. Quoted:
It should be remembered that ACLS was designed as a NO FAIL course. We have RNs fail the course here at times. If you can't show that you know what your doing in your Mega-Code practical, you don't get to play when the real deal comes around...don't care how long you had your cert, or how long you've been in the business. |
Yeah, I had to get ACLS certified this spring. I dunno why, 'cause I can't figure who would want a pathology resident running a code...particularly one who enjoys doing autopsies...
j/k, I'll do my best to save you if you happen to be in my presence when all those cheeseburgers catch up to you. |
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Then there will be the family practitioners who were told they need to take the class and have never seen a code. I will go under conscious sedation at my Periodontist office in August. You bet your ass I asked to see the crash cart. Quoted:
It should be remembered that ACLS was designed as a NO FAIL course. We have RNs fail the course here at times. If you can't show that you know what your doing in your Mega-Code practical, you don't get to play when the real deal comes around...don't care how long you had your cert, or how long you've been in the business. The point is that a recert class will be a waste of what could be valuable time actually learning something useful for anyone who actually runs codes for a living AND it's a piss poor replacement for experience for the people who don't. If you think that it in any way proves competence and are willing to place your life in that person's hands just becuse they have the card, well, that's your problem. I got a hell of a lot more just hitting the M&M rounds a few times a year and reading the latest research the AHA is able to do in foreign countries. |
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Quoted: Quoted: ACLS is not only a waste of time, they are generally two years behind the curve on the latest science. The guidelines haven't changed substantially for a while. My cardiac arrest protocols don't even follow ACLS, although for some reason we still re-cert it every couple of years. Not to mention the double standards of the whole thing since every time I have taken the class with RNs they make the Medics intubate to pass (not that it should be a challenge) while not requiring the nurses to do so. The whole 'you must have all these cards' schtick is annoying and does nothing other than enrich the coffers of the AHA. I would rather spend my CE time actually learning something. I don't need to be reminded what V-fib looks like or that I should give 1 mg Epi every 3-5 min (which isn't even an evidence based intervention) and neither should any Medic who actually works for a living. Quoted: Quoted: Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. Yeh, I want you working on my family...great attitude....... This! Zoot's post is dead on accurate. Its a money maker. Nothing more, nothing less... |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Don't be a lazy bastard go take it locally like everyone else. I don't think you can even recert without completing a skills practice and testing session with an AHA ACLS Instructor. This will be my TENTH recertification. I am phucking tired of sitting in their BS classes. I've done it for twelve. And will continue going....you need to run a Mega-Code with an AHA ACLS instructor. Quoted: Not to mention the double standards of the whole thing since every time I have taken the class with RNs they make the Medics intubate to pass (not that it should be a challenge) while not requiring the nurses to do so. Having been both, I don't see an issue with this. There are two VERY different scopes of practice. I was a ICCU RN after being a Paramedic for ten years, the amount of things I could do on the bus compared to in house was frustrating to say the least. Deal with it. My point is only the hypocrisy of requiring two different levels of skill for the same card. With the exception of ICU and ER -type RNs most don't even deal with ACLS stuff outside the course and aren't allowed to touch that stuff without a Doctor present giving orders anyhow. I know YOU know what you are doing, but most nurses I know don't and don't care to know anyway. |
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We teach ACLS in our agency and after all my years I am still a firm believer that nearly all the alphabet classes are a complete joke and rarely use the algorithms in the field or ER. TNCC PALS NRP ACLS BCLS CATN ATLS.......... all make money for someone. |
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We teach ACLS in our agency and after all my years I am still a firm believer that nearly all the alphabet classes are a complete joke and rarely use the algorithms in the field or ER. TNCC PALS NRP ACLS BCLS CATN ATLS.......... all make money for someone. My wife is an NRP instructor. Unfortunately she needs to use the alogoritms quite often. |