Basic Electronic Fetal Monitoring
Description
This introductory course is designed to assist individuals developing competency in fetal heart monitoring. Topics include equipment, indications for monitoring, strip interpretation, documentation and nursing interventions during antepartum and intrapartum periods. There is a hands-on component to this course.
Course Objectives
- Explain the instrumentation for fetal heart and uterine activity monitoring.
- Demonstrate the Leopold’s maneuver to identify fetal position.
- Define four components of uterine contractions.
- Identify the components of the fetal heart rate and associated physiology.
- Discuss the appropriate nursing interventions for each non-reassuring fetal heart rate pattern.
- Relate two causes of fetal asphyxia for each of the following: uterine blood flow, placental factors, and fetal factors.
- Explain various methods of antepartum testing.
- Discuss the components of clear, concise, defensible reporting and nursing documentation.
- Differentiate characteristics of reassuring patterns, warning and non-reassuring patterns.
Contact Hours: 7.0
Miami Valley Hospital and Miami Valley Hospital South (OH-015, 04/01/2014) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91) an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Faculty: Region II AWHONN Instructors
Target Audience: Anyone new to the OB field desiring formal introduction to basic electronic fetal monitoring.
| Minimum Attendance: 5 Date: February 7, 2012 Time: 8:00 am– 4:30 pm (Registration begins 7:30 am) Deadline: January 24, 2012 Location: Upper Valley Medical Ctr, Farm House |
Maximum Attendance: 25 Date: April 23, 2012 Time: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm (Registration begins 7:30 am) Deadline: April 9, 2012 Location: Miami Valley Hospital, Berry 1 |
