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- Date: March 13, 2013
- Time: 8:00 am to 4:45 pm
- Location: Women’s Medical Office Building, Bernard Room, 717 North 190th Street Plaza, Omaha, NE 68022
Target Audience
Nurses-Novice health professionals working with obstetric patients.
Cost
Value $300
Cost$ 105 with code 65PD
Methodist and Jennie Ed employees please use the 2013 health system promo code for a 100% discount.
Perinatal Outreach sites, please use your 2013 discount promo code.
Course Description
Purpose Statement: This fetal heart monitoring course is for the novice health professional working with obstetric patients. It provides the basic principles and concepts pertaining to fetal heart monitor interpretation and the physiology of fetal monitoring through documentation.
Objectives:
- Describe the physiological basis for fetal monitoring.
- Discuss instrumentation for fetal heart rate and uterine activity monitoring.
- Define basic fetal heart rate patterns using the NICHD criteria.
- Apply the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists management algorithm for intrapartum fetal heart rate tracings.
- List intrauterine resuscitation measures including the rationale.
- Discuss documentation and legal issues related to electronic fetal monitoring.
Agenda
| Time | Agenda |
| 7:45am-8:00am | Registration |
| 8:00am-8:30am | Overview & Introduction |
| 8:30am-9:30am | Physiology of Fetal Monitoring |
| 9:30am-9:45am | Break |
| 9:45am-11:45am |
Instrumentation and Basic Pattern Interpretation/Application |
| 11:45am-12:30pm | Lunch (included) |
| 12:30pm-2:00pm | Basic Pattern Interpretation and Application (continued) |
| 2:00pm-2:15pm | Break |
| 2:15pm-2:45pm | Basic Pattern Interpretation and Application (continued) |
| 2:45pm-3:30pm |
Management Algorithm for Fetal Heart Rate Patterns |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Intrauterine Resuscitation |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Documentation and Legal Issues |
| 4:30pm | Evaluations and Adjournment |
Speakers
Sue Weekly, RNC-OB, MS, APRN-CNS, C-EFM
In order to obtain contact hours or CEUs for a continuing education event, participants are required to attend the entire event and return a completed evaluation.
Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development recognizes that accredited status as a provider unit refers only to its continuing education activities and does not imply American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission of Accreditation, any other accrediting body, or Methodist Health System approval or endorsement of any commercial products.
Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development awards educational credit to the disciplines listed below. Each professional is accountable to understand their accrediting/licensing body's standards and requirements. The definitive source of information on continuing education requirements is your state or national regulatory board.
Nursing
7.5 contact hours awarded
This includes 0 pharmacology hours for Nurse Practitioners
Master Code #: NE10-13C32-195
Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Nebraska Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Education Credit
7.5 education hours. Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development assigns education hours based on 60 minutes of classroom instruction for each offering. Participants may use these for their professional continuing education hours and toward re-licensure if so approved within the standards and guidelines of their discipline.
It is the nurse's responsibility to keep this certificate for five years in his/her personal records for re-licensure.
Each participant should claim only those contact hours that (s)he spent in the educational activity.
Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development awards educational credit to the disciplines listed above. Each professional is accountable to understand his or her accrediting/licensing body's standards and requirements. The definitive source of information on continuing education requirements is your state or national regulatory board.
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