AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- UIC Administrative Perinatal Center
- Location
- UIC Perinatal Center, room TBA
- Date
- Sep 1, 2021 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Cost
- $150 course book and parking
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Tina Stupek
- Perinatalcenter@uic.edu
- Views
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- Originating Calendar
- UIC Perinatal Center Courses and Conferences
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.