Getting Your Clinical Skills Documented

At AMRI, we attempt to make the clinical skills verification process for ACLS and PALS certification as efficient as possible. For participants who are completing the course for the first time, your clinical skills can be verified at your place of employment or practice by any of the following people:

1. A clinical educator (a critical care unit educator, an EMS educator, or post-graduate program medical educator);
2. Your unit/section administrator;
3. Your area clinical supervisor;
4. A topic “expert” (e.g. anesthesiologist, cardiologist, critical care nurse practitioner, emergency medicine specialist, etc.);
5. A CME program director;
6. A practitioner certified as an ACLS or PALS instructor.

Skill performance can be verified by observation of actual clinical activities and are not limited to laboratory simulation activity.

Current Emergency Cardiac Care standards require students to be responsible for only the skills that are used in their individual practices. All students must demonstrate the ability to open and maintain the airway; do chest compressions and defibrillate. The health care provider’s BLS (CPR) course, which includes automated external defibrillation (AED), satisfies this requirement.