Event Details

This course is a  comprehensive 2-day instructor-led course to enhance and validate nurses and physicians ability to interpret and respond to fetal heart monitoring tracings. Skills taught and knowledge assessed includes:

• 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

Minimum of 6 months experience in bedside labor and delivery care is required for registration.