PCEO Region II Course Overview

Basic Electronic Fetal Monitoring

Description

This introduction 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

1. Explain the instrumentation for fetal heart and uterine activity monitoring.
2. Demonstrate the Leopold’s maneuver to identify fetal position.
3. Define four components of uterine contractions. 
4. Identify the components of the fetal heart rate and associated physiology. 
5. Discuss the appropriate nursing interventions for each non-reassuring fetal heart rate pattern.
6. Relate two causes of fetal asphyxia for each of the following:  uterine blood flow, placental factors, and fetal factors.
7. Explain various methods of antepartum testing.
8. Discuss the components of clear, concise, defensible reporting and nursing documentation.
9. Differentiate characteristics of reassuring patterns, warning and non-reassuring patterns.

Information

Contact Hours: 7.0.
Miami Valley Hospital and Miami Valley Hospital South Health Center (OH-015/04/01/2011) 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.

Date: February 25, 2010
Time:  8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (Registration begins 7:30 AM)
Deadline: February 11, 2010
Location: Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy, Farm House

OR

Date: May 24, 2010
Time:  8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (Registration begins 7:30 AM)
Deadline: May 10, 2010
Location: Kettering Medical Center, Boonshoft Classroom

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