The two-day workshop (18 contact hours and 15.25 CMEs) is offered in a standardized formal that can be used as a competency assessment to validate the knowledge and skills of experienced nurses and physicians. 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 intrauterine pressure catheter and spiral electrode
- Interpretation of tracings
- Identification of indicated nursing interventions
- Communication
- Documentation
Intended audience: Designed for healthcare professionals who have completed a basic/foundations FHM course and who use fetal heart assessment and monitoring in the perinatal setting.
