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Basic Fetal Heart Monitoring
Fetal heart monitoring
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Program Overview
Ms. Glasgow, RNC-OB, presents basic terminology of fetal heart tracing and discuss examples to illustrate those terms. She will provide information on assessing fetal well-being in the antenatal period. She defines aspects considered normal in the fetal heart rate tracing and changes considered to be indicative of declining fetal acid-base status. She will discuss documentation of the fetal heart rate tracing and the nursing interventions associated with the interpretation of such.

Objectives:

  1. The participant will be able to identify 4 components of fetal heart rate interpretation.
  2. The participant will be able to discuss 3 types of antenatal testing.
  3. The participant will be able to analyze a fetal heart rate tracing, document the findings, and devise a plan of care based on this evaluation.

Speaker Disclosures:
The planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers and /or panelists of this CME activity have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Instructions to obtain credit:

  1. Complete the pre-test
  2. View the entire activity online
  3. Check completion box
  4. Complete the post-test (must pass the post-test to receive credit)
  5. Complete Evaluation
  6. Print certificate or transcript (Available in the “My Profile” tab).

System Requirements - PC
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PC
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Windows XP or greater
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System Requirements - MAC
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Mac OS 10.4
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800 x 600 Minimum Monitor Resolution
(1024 x 768 Recommended)
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Internet Explorer 8
Mozilla Firefox 21
Google Chrome 30.0.1599.101
Safari 5.1.7 

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ANCC Accreditation Statement:
Center of Distance Health, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission of Accreditation

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