The Essentials of ECG Rhythms:

Identification and Intervention

Description

Ever wondered about those squiggly lines mean on a monitor? Is your job requiring you to know how to read a telemetry rhythm strip? The Essentials of ECG Rhythms focuses on building your skill in identifying normal and abnormal rhythms. This 2-day class builds a foundation for more advanced study of ACLS, cardiac electrophysiology and critical interventions. Practical time is spent with students teaching rate and rhythm calculations to insure accurate learning. Pre-tests and post-tests are conducted. Clinicians who wish to strengthen their cardiac monitoring skills and those working in acute environments should investigate this course.

Objectives

Upon completion of The Essentials of ECG Rhythms: Identification and Intervention, the learner will:

  • Identify the structures that the coronary arterial and venous anatomy serve
  • Describe how myocardial oxygen supply is regulated in the body
  • Discuss normal cardiac cell impulse generation and propagation
  • Verbalize the origins of three types of ectopic pacemakers
  • Explain the differences between cardiac monitoring and a 12-lead ECG
  • Calculate the rate, rhythm, PR interval, and QRS interval for a sinus rhythm
  • Discriminate between sinus, atrial, junctional, and ventricular dysrhythmias
  • Name the identifying components of atrial and ventricular dysrhythmias
  • Calculate the rate, rhythm, PR interval, and QRS interval for various rhythms
  • Distinguish between first degree, second, and third degree AV blocks
  • Identify a bundle branch block in an ECG waveform
  • Discuss how the ECG waveform changes with ischemia, injury and infract in cardiac monitoring
    Summarize the steps to a primary survey
  • Evaluate secondary survey techniques in the care of a client in cardiac arrest
  • Identify emergent ventricular rhythms requiring electrical intervention
  • Anticipate nursing measures utilized for clients who require external pacing
  • Discuss the medications used to raise and lower the blood pressure and treat various dysrhythmias
  • Review diagnostic tests including laboratory studies for cardiovascular disorders

Course Outline

  • Cardiac anatomy & physiology
  • Electrical conduction system
  • Leads and Monitoring
  • ECG Basics
  • Systematic approach to rhythm interpretation
  • Calculation, interpretation and discrimination of ECG rhythms
    • Sinus rhythms, Atrial rhythms, Junctional rhythms, & Ventricular rhythms
  • Practice & review of Sinus, Atrial, Junctional, and Ventricular Rhythms
  • AV Blocks & Pacemaker
  • Abnormalities in Monitoring
    • Right & Left Bundle Branch Blocks
    • Ischemia, Injury, & Infarct
  • ACLS Actions: Primary & Secondary Survey with VF/VT actions
  • ACLS medications
  • Interpretation of laboratory data
  • Case study review and additional practice time

Total Contact Hours:  12.0 

Acute Care Education Associates, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Washington State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 

Speaker: Susan E. Thornton, MN, RN

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