N479 Professional Activity Evaluation Form

Your Name: Jeremy Garde Date of Activity: April 5th 2022 Faculty name: Philip Moya

Describe the community service/professional activity/s you attended or participated with (be
specific about the purpose and your role):

I attended an in-person Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course. The purpose of this

course is to gain education of the advanced procedures to be conducted when a patient is in a

dangerous cardiac rhythm or when resumption of normal sinus rhythm is not achieved with chest

compressions and rescue breathing. My role was to gain skills and knowledge about

pharmacologic and mechanical interventions that can be provided at the patient’s bedside to be

tested in real life scenarios at the end of the course.

Where was this held and what was was program/activity length?

The ACLS course was held at Eclipse CPR and required pre-reading and quizzes to be

completed before class. The in-person, hands on portion of class was eight hours long.

Discuss the value of this experience to you (be specific).

Since an ACLS certification is a requirement to work on the unit I was hired on, this experience

was a great way to prepare for the ICU setting and give me confidence starting on my first day. It

can take up to weeks/months for employees to get into an open ACLS class at the hospital I was

hired into, so I have reassurance before walking into my first shift that I have some background

on code situations. Additionally, it is important to be a valuable member of a team especially in

the ICU and this experience will allow me to add value to the healthcare teams I will be working

with.

How will you continue to use this experience throughout your nursing career?

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This class not only explained the process of ACLS, but also touched on pharmacology to provide

me a better understand on more drugs that I will see regardless of the unit I may work on at a

hospital. In acute acre nursing it is important to be very familiar and comfortable with EKG

rhythms and this course covered them in depth and gave great additional practice to reenforce

key identifying rhythm features for the future. Both will be skill sets I will use daily in the

CVICU setting and going forward as a nurse working in any unit in a hospital.

Would you recommend this specific community/professional experience in the future? Why or
why not? (Describe)

I would recommend Eclipse CRP training to others as well as use them again myself if needed.

The owner who taught my class was efficient and made the class lighthearted and easy to follow.

He gave us exactly what we needed to be successful on the exam and also provided us with some

real-life experiences. I have taken classes from this instructor for BLS and now ACLS and can

attest to his knowledge of the content provided by the American Heart Association. The course is

educational for all levels of knowledge from doctors to EMTs and will academically challenge

anyone who takes it.

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