Do you think your employer is reponsible for paying for your ACLS training & cert?

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  1. Do you think your employer is reponsible for paying for your ACLS training & cert?

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      Yes, they should pay if they want nurses with ACLS
    • 2
      No, it's not the employers responsibility to pick up the tab.
    • 2
      Dpends on the facility
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      Not sure

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One of the local hospitals has changed their policy that the employees must pay for their own ACLS training.

So do you think your employer is reponsible for paying for your ACLS training & cert?

Specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.

I think that if it is required by the facility, then yes they should pay for it. :)

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Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

Here is how I see it...okay so I am hired with ACLS which is mandated for that facility/unit (I took that for myself, hired because of it), and say I am working for 2 years and it is about to expire, and I can't afford to re-up or something...isn't it more cost efficient to pay for the ACLS with someone with 2 years investment in the company vs hiring someone new and retraining???? Or will they fire me because I can't get my ACLS right away and go through the cost of ads, hiring, and training a new person with a ACLS card???

Companies invest a ton of money into their employees over time...it is far better to pay a for an ACLS than to go through the expense of new hire~!

So yes...if I came in with it...they can pay for the refreshers to keep me as an employee!

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Specializes in Surgical/Telemetry.

I agree with TriageRN. The hospitals around here seem to prefer that new hires come in already certified, but if it expires, I would like them to pay for the re-cert. Just wishin' tho.

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It can get a little tricky.

In the critical care units and ER, ACLS is a must, so the employer pays.

On our unit, ACLS is a darned good thing to have because we have a lot of Codes, but technically, we don't have to have it.

I think it's a dumb policy insofar as patient safety, but good for the bottom line.

So those of us who have it, pay for it ourselves.

I think all acute care nurses should have ACLS. And PALs if karing for children, neonatal resucitation for nursery and NICU.

Our hospital was like yours. They didn't require ACLS for telemetry. (Before new ownership they did and paid for it)

Since most nurses took it on their own the tele unit was safe most of the time.

When I floated there I was appalled that it wasn't required. Over a few months (and with the threat of letting the public know) it is now required and paid for.

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Specializes in LDRP.

Im on the cardiac surgery PCU and its required (and paid for, and paid for an 8 hour day each day of the ACLS class-2 days)

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I think the place of employment should atleast eather send you to get acls cerfited or reinburse you for the amnount of the class . or the college should teach all rn's who pass the nyclx exam the should havea class to teach the nurses that or the colleges should make it part of the currcilcum for the nurseing program and after you learn it then you take the exam to be acls cerfited then thats one last thing you have to worry about when you go and search for a job.

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

They require us to have ACLS if doing charge. They expect it and they pay for it and also for the hours we spend taking it. Never a problem.

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If its a requirement for where you work, absolutely.

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Specializes in ER, NICU.

Anything required for me to keep my license - such as CEU I don't mind paying for.

But if an employer wants me to do further certs I think they should pay for it because it is the facility that gets the accreditation requirement met.

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