Your Career Depends On Your Skills

From minor health care to major surgical procedures, the qualifications of those involved are vital and closely measured. A career in health care is serious business. There are many complicated procedures that take place throughout the medical field, and these procedures require many dedicated professionals to oversee and perform them.

Professionals in the health care field save lives, and therefore hold patients’ lives in their hands. Health care certification demonstrates your commitment to your chosen profession and the safety of your patients.

Just as each patient is special, so is each health care provider. That’s where we come in. At ACLS with Tress we can increase the quality of patient care and help provide students with the support and certification needed to succeed in their chosen field.

Our primary goal is to increase the quality of that care, and make the health care industry better, one worker at a time. Together, we can provide you with the tools needed to retain your competitive edge in the marketplace.

Nursing Schools Brace For Faculty Shortage

West Virginia/by Sandy Hausman/August 03, 2012 4:43am -- There have been lots of goodbye parties this year at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. So far, 11 professors have retired. That's one-fourth of the faculty, and Dean Dorrie Fontaine is in no mood to celebrate.

Over the next few years, the Affordable Care Act will probably boost demand for nurses to take care of the newly insured, she says, "and I need faculty to teach the practitioners that are going to take care of these uninsured."

In the last year, more than 76,000 qualified applicants were turned away, in large part because nursing schools didn't have enough professors. Polly Bednash, executive director of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, says nurses comprise the oldest workforce in the nation, and many of them kept working during the recession.

Teachers and schools are looking for other ways to teach. "Faculty are getting more and more creative about how they prepare students," she says. "They bring in other clinicians to the educational experience – having pharmacists, for instance, be involved in teaching the pharmacotherapeutics."

They're also using technology — simulators and computer-based lessons — to supplement classroom and lab experience. Nationwide, nearly 8 percent of nursing school jobs — about 1,200 — are vacant, so the AACN is lobbying for more state, federal and foundation money to train Ph.Ds. And it is urging the most promising students to get the advanced degree before they acquire a family and a mortgage.

As a provider of ACLS life support certification and ACLS recertification, ACLS with Tress provides information, resources, and certification options to professionals in this rapidly growing industry. For individuals who need to be prepared to provide emergency care, knowledge and proper certification are vital for career success.