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Nursing Certifications

The document discusses various certifications that are required for nursing candidates, including BLS (Basic Life Support), ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support), PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support), NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program), ENPC (Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course), TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course), AWHONN, STABLE, and NIHSS. It provides a brief overview of each certification and what it involves, such as learning resuscitation techniques for infants, children, adults, or trauma patients. All certifications are valid for 2 years and help candidates gain additional skills beyond their nursing education.

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Nursing Certifications

The document discusses various certifications that are required for nursing candidates, including BLS (Basic Life Support), ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support), PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support), NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program), ENPC (Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course), TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course), AWHONN, STABLE, and NIHSS. It provides a brief overview of each certification and what it involves, such as learning resuscitation techniques for infants, children, adults, or trauma patients. All certifications are valid for 2 years and help candidates gain additional skills beyond their nursing education.

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Certifications

✓ Certifications are basically additional skills all candidates must have apart from their
Nursing education.
✓ We only accept certifications endorsed by AHA ( American Heart Association ).
✓ Certifications can be of various types and purely depends on the Unit/Specialty the
candidate applies to.
✓ All Certifications are valid for 2 years from the date of issue.
✓
Type Of Certifications :
➢ BLS ( Basic Life Support )
What is a BLS Certification?
Basic Life Support, or BLS, generally refers to the type of care that first-responders,
healthcare providers and public safety professionals provide to anyone who is
experiencing cardiac arrest, respiratory distress or an obstructed airway.
BLS is the most common certifications that every Healthcare worker ( RN and Allied ) need
to have.
➢ ACLS ( Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support )
What is an ACLS Certification?
The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the
importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.
➢ PALS ( Pediatric Advanced Life Support )

What is a Pals Certification?

A PALS certification is a more advanced course of study than BLS. According to the
National CPR Foundation, “By the end of the course, professionals learn PALS
treatment algorithms, team dynamics, effective resuscitation, and effective pediatric -
infant, children and adolescent patient assessment.”
➢ NRP ( Neonatal Resuscitation Program )

What is an NRP Certification?

The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP certification) was originally founded in


1987 by the American Heart Association (AHA) in order to train nurses, doctors, and
other hospital staff members to learn an evident-based approach in resuscitating
infants at the time of delivery and immediately afterwards.
➢ ENPC ( Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course )

What is an ENPC Certification?


ENPC is a 16-hour certification training course designed to provide core-level pediatric
knowledge and psychomotor skills needed to care for pediatric patients in the emergency
setting.

➢ TNCC ( Trauma Nursing Core Course )

What is a TNCC Certification?

The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
is a 16-hour, two-day course designed to provide core-level trauma knowledge and
psychomotor skills associated with the delivery of professional nursing care to the
trauma patient.
➢ AWHONN – ( The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and
Neonatal Nurses )
What is an AWHONN Certifucation?
AWHONN’s Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring Course is a two-day Instructor-led
educational experience taught at locations across the U.S. The course is presented to
over 15,000 clinicians a year and may be used as a competency assessment to validate
the knowledge and skills of perinatal clinicians who use fetal monitoring. The course
includes a post test to assess learner knowledge.
➢ STABLE ( Sugar, Temperature, Airway, Blood pressure, Lab work, and
Emotional support )
What is a STABLE Certification?
S.T.A.B.L.E. is the most widely distributed and implemented neonatal education
program to focus exclusively on the post-resuscitation/pre-transport stabilization care
of sick infants. Based on a mnemonic to optimize learning, retention and recall of
information, S.T.A.B.L.E. stands for the six assessment and care modules in the
program: Sugar, Temperature, Airway, Blood pressure, Lab work, and Emotional
support.
➢ NIHSS ( National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale )

What is an NIHSS Certification?

The NIHSS is a 15-item neurologic examination stroke scale used to evaluate the
effect of acute cerebral infarction on the levels of consciousness, language, neglect,
visual-field loss, extraocular movement, motor strength, ataxia, dysarthria, and
sensory loss.

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