The Emergency Medicine Academy | CPR, BLS, ACLS and PALS and EMT classes in Boise, ID

ACLS HeartCode Skills Session – Part 2

This hands-on session is the final step in completing your AHA ACLS certification. Before attending, you must complete the online HeartCode ACLS course (Part 1) through the American Heart Association and email your completion certificate to CPR@IdahoAcademy.com prior to your scheduled session.

Complete Part 1 here: AHA HeartCode ACLS Online
(Payment for the online portion is made directly to the AHA.)

What to Expect in Part 2

The in-person skills check-off includes:

High-Quality Adult CPR
Airway Management
Megacode Testing

This session is required to finalize your ACLS certification.

Who Should Attend

Designed for healthcare professionals such as:

Physicians
Nurses
Paramedics
Respiratory Therapists
Pharmacists
…and others as required by employer policy.
Note: This course is not recommended for first-time ACLS students who have never attended an in-person ACLS class.

Certification

Valid for 2 years upon successful completion.

Testing

Skills check-off includes High-Quality BLS, Airway Management, and Megacode.

Duration

Approximately 3-5 hours .

ACLS Course

This course is designed for healthcare providers that need ACLS for their clinical duties. This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition of intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

ACLS course Prerequisite: You must complete a Pre-course self-assessment and pre-course work before attending the class. Click here for further information.

Intended for physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and others as required by their employer.

Time: Approximately 8-9 hours

Certification Period: 2 years

Testing: Skills check-off and open resource is written test required.

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BLS (Blended Learning)

This course is designed for students who have already completed the online Heartcode BLS Provider (blended) portion and only need the mandatory hands-on session portion of the course.

Blended learning is a combination of eLearning, in which a student completes part of the course in a self-directed manner, followed by a hands-on session. The following link will direct you to the AHA website, where you can take the online portion of this course (separate and paid directly to the AHA) and receive your certificate of completion. You will then present the certificate at the start of the hands-on session of this class. Alternatively, you may email your completed certificate to CPR@IdahoAcademy.com before the start of class.

Follow the link below for the online portion of this course:

https://shopcpr.heart.org/heartcode-bls

Intended for healthcare providers or professional rescuers.

Time: Approximately 1-2 hour

Certification Period: 2 years

Testing: Skills Check-off required.

BLS (In-Person)

AHA (American Heart Association) BLS (basic life support) course is for both pre-hospital and in-facility health care environments. The BLS Course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Both single and team high-quality CPR will be taught.

Intended for healthcare providers or professional rescuers.

BLS Instructor Course

Reminder: Basic Life Support (BLS) Instructors may also teach Heartsaver classes.

Below are the following steps to becoming an AHA Instructor:

Have current AHA BLS provider certification and be proficient in all the skills of that discipline. You must present your provider certificate before attending this class. Email to CPR@IdahoAcademy.com
Complete the online BLS Instructor Essentials Course-This is an additional charge that will be paid directly to the AHA. https://shopcpr.heart.org/bls-instructor-essentials-online. This online portion is required to be completed before this classroom instructor class.
Successfully be monitored teaching your first course within six months of completing the discipline-specific classroom Instructor Course. This is typically done on the same day of your course.

Once you become an Instructor, you will have access to the most current emergency cardiovascular care science, course updates, training resources, and tools through the online AHA Instructor Network.

Fee: Includes classroom portion, first-class monitoring, instructor eCard, and 1st year of alignment fee.

Time: Approximately 5-hour initial classroom and 3 - 4 hour class observation within 6 months.

Certification: 2 years

Testing: Skills Check-off and open resource written test required

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PALS HeartCode® hands-on session

Must take the AHA e-learning online portion before the hands-on session (completed and paid directly to the AHA) and email the completion certificate to CPR@Idahoacademy.com before this hands-on session. For your convenience, we have provided the link to the online (part 1) portion of this class where you can learn more and receive your certificate of completion: PALS online AHA portion.

The hands-on skills check-off will include Child and Infant High-Quality BLS, Airway Management, Vascular Access, and Rhythm Disturbances/Electrical Therapy.

Intended for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, and others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Time: Approximately 2 to 4 hours

Certification Period: 2 years

Testing: Skills Check-off required

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PALS Course

An AHA PALS Instructor conducts the PALS Course in a classroom setting, supported by video. The course uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics. The course offers life-like skills animations, team dynamics role play, and scenarios appropriate to different providers (pre-hospital and in-hospital). Students must complete a pre-course self-assessment and pre-course work before attending the classroom session. Copies of the completed pre-course work must be emailed to CPR@IdahoAcademy.com 24 hours before the class date. The link for this is provided below:

https://elearning.heart.org/course/426

Intended for: healthcare providers who either direct or participate in managing respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients. This includes personnel in emergency responders, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, and others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Time: Approximately 8 hours

Certification Period: 2 years

Testing: Skills Check-off and open resource written test required.

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STOP the Bleed

Victims can quickly die from uncontrolled bleeding within five to 10 minutes. Massive bleeding from any cause, but particularly from an active shooter or explosive event where a response is delayed, can result in death. Like how the general public learns and performs CPR, the public must learn proper bleeding control techniques, including using their hands, dressings, and tourniquets.

This course is based on the curriculum from BleedingControl.org, an initiative of the American College of Surgeons, to teach anyone the various ways to control bleeding. After course completion, the student will have the skills and confidence to control bleeding, including properly applying a tourniquet.

Intended for construction workers, arborists, mechanical, teachers, police officers, and any individual who wants to learn more than what is taught in a First Aid class on controlling bleeding.

Fee: $15

Time: Approximately 1 hour

Certification: Course completion certificate.

Testing: No testing is required.

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With the updated guidelines from the CDC and recent changes to the local educational institutions in our area, face coverings at IMA will be recommended for those who are unvaccinated and optional for those who are vaccinated. This is a recommendation and students or staff are not required to show proof of COVID immunization.

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*Heartsaver First Aid

Join our AHA First Aid course in Boise, Idaho! This hands-on class teaches essential emergency skills, including treating bleeding, burns, fractures, allergic reactions, shock, and medical emergencies like heart attack or stroke. Learn how to use an epinephrine pen, control bleeding, and respond to injuries confidently. Earn official AHA certification and be prepared to act when seconds count. Register today!

Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM (3 seats left)IMA Vista - 2323 S. Vista Ave., Ste. 202-B

*Heartsaver First Aid CPR Adult/Child/Infant

AHA (American Heart Association) Heartsaver couse is designed to meet OSHA standards and provide the general public quality training in CPR/AED. The Heartsaver Course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. First Aid will also be covered in this course.

Intended for business employees or general public.

CPR for Friends and Family

The Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, adult CPR with breaths, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR, and mild and severe airway block for adults, children, and infants. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment using the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which provides students with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible. 2 hours

Pediatric First Aid CPR/AED (Childcare)

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR/AED

AHA (American Heart Association) Heartsaver Pediatric course is designed for childcare providers at home and in-facility health care environments. The Heartsaver Pediatric Course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations, provide early use of an AED, and deliver high-quality First Aid.

Intended for child care workers, teachers, babysitters, etc

PHTLS Hybrid

Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Hybrid

*IMPORTANT: Once you receive and use your online course code - you will not be refunded for the $50 access code if the class is cancelled.

This is the PHTLS Hybrid course which includes 8 hours PHTLS Online Continuing Education and 8 classroom hours. Participants who successfully complete both the online and classroom components will earn 16 hours of CECBEMS continuing education credit and be issued a PHTLS certificate and card.

PHTLS promotes excellence in trauma patient management through global education of all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care. PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care in your area and decrease mortality. The program is based on a prehospital trauma care philosophy, stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. This may require an approach to the trauma patient that varies from traditional treatment modalities.

PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS providers are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. The PHTLS course is continuously updated and revised to keep up with the advances in the field, ATLS Guidelines and feedback from PHTLS participants.

Registration for this course will close one (1) weeks prior to the classroom session to give the participants adequate time to complete the online component.

The course covers the following topics: