Success! in ACLS: Tips and Tricks for Passing the ACLS Course

By Shaun Fix

Success In ACLS Tips and Tricks for Passing ACLS was created to help students pass the ACLS course. This study guide emphasizes the practical, hands-on application of ACLS that will help students... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131176218
• ISBN13: 9780131176218
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

taking the acls

this book has helped me a lot especially since it was my first time taking the acls and it gives me tips and advice, it makes it easy to understand the processes

very well organized and very to the point

This book is very well written and offers a direct approach to learning the skills needs to pass ACLS in a stress free format and is geared to highlight the important areas that need to me learned. Follow all highlighted and key areas for a successful apporoach to succeed in the course. Pace your self to not over load the brain, and take it in "baby step" Mt tip: DO NOT MEMORIZE..actually you need to be interested enough to actually LEARN and not memorize.. you will benefit so much more by converting the info to actual memory rather than just memeorizing the algorithins. You need a basic understanding of the pathophysiology to be able to actually apply the techniques required to be successful in the use of ACLS. If your plan is to memorize things just long enough to pass a test, you are not doing your self or your patient justice,if you are not dedicated to disipline your self to really make the effort to learn the basics for a successful ACLS attempt to be effective, 1) Know your facility protocal, act prompyly and efficiently. 2) promote compliance for being in the pill line and diabetic testing line. 3) the inmate must take responsibility to self involvement and active participation in order to maintain a higher level of function in association with medical protocal. 4)Learn to read a manipulator, liar, or a hypochondriac at it's finest. 5) learn to recognize when an inmate is faking CP or Seizure type behaviour. This will come in time with learning the assessmenet skills to rule out and identify the root cause of the problem. (most generally for attention)..(and a hope to be sent out to the hospital for a day or two, (at leat for a 24 hour obs).. we do ekg's on the spot when we get a CP complaint.. when the EKG is read and found to be normal,. 2 tums sends them on thier way will almost always no further complaints to be reported. (at least on this day) some of the inmates are very ingenious as to how to fake CP and seizures that almost appear incredibably realistic, sometimes making it difficult to r/o real vs. fake. 6) the hardest part is to recognize true symptions and the fakers 7) a new nurse can and will sometimes be faced with the challange of distinguishing between real vs. fake seizures and true cardiac emergency. 8) over 90 % of the time, a young healthy adult can and will (for attention) scream and insist they are dying of CP, heart attack and more..(mostly from cocaine onboard in large amounts or withdraw). 9) if we acted on every complaint, MANY would be sent out by EMS for r/o complaints.. but we cannot waste money for valuable resources such as tax payers covering the cost of an ambulance ride, and manpower to have a 24 hour guard to babysit these fools in a hospital. This is where acls is very important, to rule out a faker before all the skills are implimented for lack of a proper diagnosis ststed by an inmate.