Target audience: Baystate emergency department nurses, medics, and monitor techs who read cardiac monitors.

For questions, contact Benjamin Duffy via email at benjamin.duffy@baystatehealth.org

Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Define the five major electro-mechanical properties of the heart.
2. Describe the heart's electrical activity in the sinus rhythms, with the waveform produced on ECG tracings.
3. Identify the gross anatomic structures of the heart.
4. Identify the P Wave, QRS Complex, and T Wave on given ECG tracings.
5. Recognize measure and interpret various sinus rhythms.

Faculty

Ben Duffy BSN, CEN
Clinical Coordinator
Baystate Medical Center

Matthew Dimauro RN
Clinical Coordinator
Baystate Medical Center

Ellen Smithline Ph.D, MS, RN, CEN
Program Director of Professional Practice, Quality & Outcomes
Baystate Medical Center

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.5 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.