The two-day workshop (18 contact hours and 15.25 CMEs) is offered in a standardized format that can be used as a competency assessment to validate the knowledge and skills of experienced nurses. Participants analyze case scenarios using key physiologic principles. The sessions offer demonstration, practice, and testing of the following skills:
- Auscultation
- Performing Leopold's Maneuvers
- Placement of an intrauterine pressure catheter and spiral electrode
- Interpretation of tracings
- Identification of indicated nursing interventions
- Communication
- Documentation
Intended audience This course is designed for clinicians who previously completed a basic fetal monitoring course, or a comparable fetal monitoring educational program.
