Target audience: All nurses and monitor techs at Baystate Health who read cardiac monitors.

This course requires pre-registration.

TO REGISTER for this course, you must contact Carol.Lynn@baystatehealth.org.

Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Determine the heart's electrical activity when conduction thru the AV node is impaired with the wave forms produced on the ECG.
2. Distinguish accuracy in measuring and interpreting Junctional and Ventricular Rhythms.
3. Distinguish the heart's electrical activity with paced rhythms on ECG tracings.
4. Identify measure and interpret Atrio-Ventricular blocked rhythms.
5. Identify potentially life threatening arrhythmias.
6. Relay potentially life threatening arrhythmias to the appropriate medical staff in order to provide immediate intervention.

Faculty

Kimberly Desautels MSN RN CCRN
Clinical Nurse Educator
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.

Session date: 
07/18/2024 - 8:30am to 12:00pm EDT
Location: 
Baystate Education Center
361 Whitney Ave
Holyoke, MA 01040
United States
  • 3.50 ANCC Contact Hours

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