Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS): Heartcode® RQI Cart

Broadway Building, Suite 1630: Monday - Friday 7 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (except UC holidays)
Main Hospital locations: contact your department’s RQI Champion for availability

• ICU Staff: contact Emma Blackmon or Stacey Camposagrado
• For Acute care floors:
  • Tower 8: contact Barbara Rios
  • East 6: contact Hillary Tucker
  • Davis 6: contact Payam Shekarlab
• PACU staff: e-mail HS-PACU Educator or Vocera PACU Staff Developer
• ED staff: contact ED Educators
• Inpatient GI Lab: contact Lorie Hobart or Steven Nguyen
• Inpatient Radiology, AIM Services, or PICC: Contact Camila Villacarlos, Jill Hernandez, or Ryan Seeberger

Code: DAHS-NAHPALS21-RQI

No appointment required for skill session on RQI Cart. Walk-in basis.

HeartCode® PALS Online is a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program that uses adaptive learning technology to allow learners to acquire and demonstrate Pediatric Advanced Life Support skills using a personalized learning path that adapts in real time to a learner’s performance. The program is designed for healthcare professionals who need Pediatric Advanced Life Support training for their clinical duties.

Utilizing a variety of eLearning assets such as dramatizations, Cognitive Assessment Activities, illustrations, knowledge checks and interactive activities, this program teaches PALS knowledge and skills. This method of learning provides training consistency and adaptability to different learning styles. Participants can work at their own pace applying their knowledge to real-time decision making. Debriefings and coaching are provided immediately after each knowledge check and each Cognitive Assessment Activity. HeartCode® 2025 PALS Online consists of a cognitive portion that is completed online. A separate psychomotor skills assessment using voice assisted manikins with real-time audio and visual feedback is required to earn a valid AHA PALS Provider eCard.

This course is designed for health-care professionals who direct or manage cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies; personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units; physicians, nurses, and paramedics; and others who need a PALS course completion card for their job. This course is for renewal and initial PALS certification.

This format will allow for more flexibility in staff scheduling and attending skills check sessions with daily availability, Monday through Friday, to complete the hands-on session.

Prior to the course, participants must complete the HeartCode® PALS online module. The HeartCode® module will be assigned to course participants weekly on Thursday. E-mail from RQI Partners and RQI1Stop (donotreply@rqi1stop.com). Please add this e-mail address to your contact list to ensure you receive this message. UC Davis Health personnel will receive their AHA online module on their UC Davis e-mail account per hospital policy. Note: this module can only be used with the RQI Cart and cannot be used for the Quarterly Instructor-Led Skills Sessions.

Tips

• User Guide for HeartCode® RQI Cart (PDF)
• How to claim your CEUs from the HeartCode RQI Cart (PDF)
• RQI 1Stop® learning platform
• Supported browsers for online module:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome
  • FireFox
  • Apple Safari

Once the online portion of the HeartCode® course has been completed, participants come to one of the CPPN Cart locations to practice and test their skills by using the voice-assisted-manikin RQI Cart system.
Skills Practice and Testing will take approximately ½ hour to complete.

Course completion
Participants must successfully complete:

• The online portion.
• A hands-on skills practice and test session using a voice-assisted manikin.
• AHA ecard will be immediately issued in user account upon successful completion of the above.

Wear loose, comfortable clothing or scrubs. You will be practicing skills that require working on your hands, bending, standing, and lifting. If you have physical conditions that might prevent you from participating in the course, please notify us prior to the course. The instructor will work to accommodate your needs within the stated course completion requirements.

Upon successful completion of the online course, participants will receive up to 3.75 contact hours from the AHA.

Registrations are confirmed only if deposit or fee is provided with registration form. Registration includes online access for the cognitive portion, skills practice and test session with the RQI Cart. Registration deposit/fee is inclusive of the online HeartCode® module and skills check session. This is a flat rate and there is no cost breakdown for individual components of the course.

UC Davis Health employees

Mandatory: UC Davis employees for whom the training is mandatory.

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Optional: UC Davis employees that are not required to take PALS for their job.

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School of Medicine: SOM faculty and staff who are recharging their course fee must ask their department to e-mail hs-cppn@ucdavis.edu with their recharge account information and approval.

$165 registration fee.

Employees for whom the training is mandatory may self-register without a deposit or registration fee. Upon registration for the course, the appropriate department will be recharged the course fee. 

Employees for whom the training is not mandatory must pay the course fee at the time of registration.

Community registrants

This class is only open to UC Davis Health employees.

Cancellation must be requested prior to accessing the RQI platform to receive a full refund. The deposit or registration fee will be forfeited if the online course was accessed, and the skills session is not completed. Note that the online course is not interchangeable with the Blended Quarterly Instructor-Led Course online module. Course completion requires skills testing with the RQI Cart.

Online module is not interchangeable

The AHA Heartcode RQI Cart Online Module is not interchangeable with the Quarterly Blended Instructor-Led Course online module. Once either course module is accessed, it is not refundable. The online module accessed for the RQI Cart can only be used for the RQI Cart.

Consistent with UC Davis policy, faculty are expected to disclose:

1. Any significant financial interests or other relationships with manufacturers of commercial products and/or providers of commercial services discussed in their presentations.
2. Any "off-label" uses for pharmaceutical and medical device products discussed in their presentations.

The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent speakers with significant financial or other relationships from making presentations, but rather to provide listeners with information on which they can make their own judgments. A complete faculty disclosure statement and acknowledgment of commercial support for this program will be included in the syllabus provided at the activity.

The AHA 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.

Individuals needing special accommodations may call the Center for Professional Practice of Nursing at 916-734-9790.

Parking is available in parking structure 4, lots 12, 17, 22, 22 Auxiliary, 30, 30 Auxiliary, Broadway, EDD, and DOJ with either a B permit or daily permit. Daily permits are available for purchase with the ParkMobile app using zone number 42201 or at a parking kiosk. Please visit Parking and Transportation Services for more information.

Please contact the AHA program manager at hs-aha@ucdavis.edu.

Jan Shepard, M.S.N., R.N., N.P.D.-B.C., C.C.R.N.
Professional Development Specialist