This comprehensive 2-day instructor-led course is critical for enhancing and validating nurses and providers' ability to interpret and respond to fetal heart monitoring tracings.

 

Skills taught and knowledge assessed include:

• Maternal and fetal physiology

• Interpretation of fetal and uterine monitor tracings

• Evaluation of auscultated fetal heart sounds

• Leopold's Maneuvers

• Placement of fetal spiral electrodes and intrauterine pressure catheters

• Evaluation of and strategies for enhancing communication

The course is presented to approximately 15,000 clinicians a year and may be used as a competency assessment to validate the knowledge and skills of perinatal clinicians who utilize fetal monitoring and includes a posttest to assess learner knowledge.

 

CNE Accreditation

 

Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. AWHONN is approved by The California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP580.

 

AWHONN has been recognized as an ANCC Premier Program Provider for Innovation in Continuing Nursing Education.