IVE Advanced Stroke Life Support (ASLS®) Instructor Essentials Online

International English (IVE) training materials have been updated to reflect global stroke epidemiology, differences in the availability of treatment options, the wide variety of stroke systems of care, and international stroke care quality improvement programs, and now include metric units of measurement applicable to students outside of the United States.

The IVE Advanced Stroke Life Support (ASLS) Instructor Essentials Online course is designed to prepare instructor candidates to teach the ASLS blended learning course. The Instructor Essentials course aims to educate instructor candidates on how to adequately use ASLS instructor teaching materials, ensure that students meet learning objectives, offer students coaching skills, provide an objective skills performance evaluation, and follow AHA Instructor and course policies.

At the completion of this online course, the instructor candidates will be able to:

• Identify the prerequisites to becoming an AHA Instructor

• Describe the usability of the Program Administration Manual

• Describe the core competencies of an AHA Instructor

• Describe the 5 steps of an AHA Instructor: prepare, teach, test and remediate, close, and keep current

• Identify resources available to an AHA Instructor

• Describe how to use discipline-specific AHA Instructor materials: the Instructor Manual, course videos, stroke scales, and skills testing checklists

• Identify discipline-specific course formats available to students for completion of the course

• Describe discipline-specific course completion requirements

• Describe discipline-specific flexibility options available to an AHA Instructor within the course

• Describe the requirements for how to maintain an AHA Instructor status

• Describe effective AHA Instructor feedback and remediation techniques

• Demonstrate the administration of skills testing with the use of the skills testing checklists

• Demonstrate pre-briefing and structured debriefing skills

• Describe how to facilitate the practice and testing stations