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
- Explain the instrumentation for fetal heart and uterine activity monitoring in caring for the pregnant patient.
- Demonstrate the Leopold’s maneuver to identify fetal position.
- Define four components of uterine contractions.
- Identify the components of the fetal heart rate.
- Explain the associated etiology/pathophysiology.
- 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, indications, methods and interpretation.
- Discuss the components of clear, concise, defensible reporting and nursing documentation.
- Differentiate characteristics of reassuring patterns, warning and non-reassuring patterns.
Information
Contact Hours:
7.0 Contact Hours: 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.
Minimum Attendance: 5 Maximum Attendance: 25
Date: February 12, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (Registration begins 7:30 AM)
Deadline: January 29th, 2009
Location: Upper Valley Medical Center Farm House, Troy
OR
Date: April 24th, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (Registration begins 7:30 AM)
Deadline: April 10th, 2009
Location: Location: Kettering Medical Center Nelson Center 4
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