PALS Certification in Covina, CA

Is there a PALS class in Covina?

There is no public PALS classroom inside Covina that we run. Ours is at 100 N. Barranca St, Suite #255-B, in West Covina, just south of the Covina city line, and every public PALS class is held there on Sundays and Tuesdays at 12:00 PM. What we do run inside Covina is private sessions: an emergency department, a practice or a surgery center books a date, and we teach in its own conference room. If you are one person looking for a class, the classroom is your answer. If you are an educator holding a list of names, the onsite option usually is.

Getting to the PALS classroom from Covina

From downtown Covina, drive east on Badillo Street until you reach the Covina-Valley Unified district office, then turn south on Barranca Avenue. The road is renamed Barranca Street when it crosses into West Covina, and our building is a short way past that point. Coming off a shift at the Inter-Community emergency department, most people take Citrus Avenue south, turn east on Rowland Street and pick up Barranca from there. Parking costs nothing, and Suite #255-B is upstairs on the second floor.

Is PALS included in ACLS, or the same thing?

Neither. ACLS is the American Heart Association course for adult cardiac emergencies; PALS is its course for infants and children, with different assessment steps, different rhythms to recognize and doses calculated by weight. They are separate classes with separate eCards, and an employer that asks for PALS will not accept ACLS in its place. Plenty of Covina emergency and urgent care staff hold both, which is why the two are often booked together.

For the adult course, see ACLS certification in Covina, which uses the same group pricing.

PALS or NRP for NICU and newborn staff?

They are different programs. NRP, the Neonatal Resuscitation Program, comes from the American Academy of Pediatrics and covers newborns at and just after delivery. PALS covers infants and children beyond that first stretch. Many NICU and labor and delivery units ask for NRP, and some also ask for PALS, especially for nurses who float to pediatrics or the emergency department. We teach PALS, not NRP, so check your unit's requirement list before you book.

What PALS costs, for one person or a Covina team

A single seat is $135 during our Year-End Sale (ends Dec 31), down from the regular $250, with the eCard included. Groups use a per-clinician ladder: $250 for one, dropping $25 for each added clinician to $100 at seven, then $95 each for 8 to 15, $90 for 16 to 20, $85 for 21 to 25 and $80 for 26 to 30. In practice, a five-person urgent care team pays $150 each, and a 20-nurse emergency department pays $90 each. Teams above 30 get a quote built by hand.

Add-on pricing for BLS and ACLS, and every open date, is on our page for PALS certification in West Covina.

Why PALS matters most for staff who rarely use it

A pediatric nurse runs these assessments every shift. An adult emergency nurse or an urgent care PA might face a truly sick infant a handful of times a year, and that is exactly when the dose by weight, the right size of airway and the early signs of shock are hardest to pull from memory. PALS forces a rehearsal every two years, with an instructor watching and a case that does not go to plan. For Covina sites that mostly see adults, that rehearsal is the reason the card is on the requirement list at all.