Download a PDF poster to print and post in your unit, department, or office! (Opens in new tab)Description
Single Webinar:
This webinar is part of a two-part series.
Duration:
120 minutes including a Q&A
Includes:
• A certificate of completion
• The on-demand recording to watch at your convenience, for at least one year
• A handout in PDF format for viewing or self-printing
Objectives:
1. Identify basic cardiac electrophysiology and conduction
2. Identify waves and intervals in the rhythm
3. Identify how to calculate heart rate
4. Identify Sinus Rhythm
5. Identify Five Atrial Dysrhythmias
– Sinus arrhythmia
– Premature atrial complexes
– Atrial fibrillation
– Atrial flutter
– Wandering atrial pacemaker
Description:
This interactive two part webinar is designed to assist the nurse in acute and urgent care and other specialty settings to interpret and evaluate the Lead II rhythms on a basic cardiac bedside monitor. Participants will be taught how to systematically analyze cardiac rhythm, how to calculate rates and intervals and how to interpret basic sinus, atrial, and ventricular rhythms; heart blocks, and pacemaker rhythms. Nursing implications for monitoring and management will be reviewed.
Who Should Attend?:
• Nurses on Telemetry, Step Down Units and Urgent Care.
• Medical & Surgical Nurses in Special Procedure Areas
•Nurses in Same Day Surgery Settings, Post Anaesthesia & Peri Operative Nurse
• Rural Nurses; Educators, Managers
• Nurses Planning to Work, or Newly working in Critical Care areas (ER, ICU and L&D)
Christopher Coltman, RN, BScN
Christopher Coltman, a graduate of the UofA Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, has been engaged in cardiac and cardiovascular surgical nursing for over 25 years. He has worked in a variety or settings and countries, including Montreal, London (England) and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has extensive experience in the area of acute coronary syndrome, heart failure and cardiovascular surgery. Chris is well known as an excellent teacher, having over 17 years of teaching experience, and has taught a number of sessions on a variety of topics where his passion for teaching and cardiac care shows. He is currently the Clinical Nurse Educator in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.
