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Introduction to Fetal Heart Monitoring | Neonatal Orientation & Education Program |
Perinatal Orientation & Education Program

Introduction to Fetal Heart Monitoring

Learn at your own pace with this online course that serves as an introduction to fetal heart monitoring (FHM). Completing this program provides perinatal clinicians with tools to interpret FHM data, implement interventions, and evaluate the effect of interventions on maternal and fetal well-being. Five sections cover:

• Maternal-fetal overview
• Uterine and fetal physiology
• Electronic monitoring
• Monitoring and interventions
• Risk management

Each section includes knowledge checks and practice exercises to highlight key learning points. Case studies enable you to apply what you learn to scenarios where decisions can influence fetal outcome.

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Neonatal Orientation and Education Program (NOEP)

Prepare your nurses with up-to-date clinical information needed for patient care, ensuring them a comprehensive and consistent learning experience. NOEP prepares nurses with the knowledge, critical thinking and assessments skills needed to implement care for neonates. NOEP is also an excellent tool to enhance the knowledge base of experienced nurses.

NOEP includes 12 scripted presentation modules, pre- and post-tests, instructions for presenters, slide handout pages, references, a program evaluation tool and continuing education credit application.

Participants can receive up to a total of 52 CNE contact hours upon completing the program.

NOEP Program Overview & Learning Objectives

NOEP Module Previews 
Previews are selected excerpts from the instructor's note pages. Contact hours per module are noted in parentheses.

1. Transition to Extrauterine Life (4.0)
2. The Respiratory System (8.0)
3. The Cardiovascular System (5.5)
4. Metabolic and Nutritional Support (3.5)
5. The Newborn Skin and Skin Care (2.0)
6. Issues Affecting the Near-Term Neonate (3.0)
7. Hematology and Immunology (5.5)
8. The Neurologic System (4.0)
9. Renal and Endocrine Disorders (5.0)
10. Genetic Disorders and Malformations (3.0)
11. Developmental Care/Management of Pain (5.5)
12. Families in Crisis (3.0)

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Perinatal Orientation and Education Program

POEP provides nurses with the theoretical knowledge needed to provide holistic family-centered care to women, their infants and family members during the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. The program is targeted to registered nurses who are new to perinatal nursing.

POEP includes 10 PowerPoint presentation modules in PDF format. Each module includes instructions for presenters, handouts pages, references, additional reading lists, a program evaluation tool and continuing education credit application.

Participants can receive up to a total of 57.3 CNE contact hours upon completing the program.

—Lori Johnson RNC, BSN, Nursing Educator
Women & Infants' Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island

Program Overview and Learning Objectives

POEP Module Previews 
Previews are selected excerpts from the instructor's note pages. Contact hours per module are noted in parentheses.

1. Physiologic and Psychosocial Adaptation To Pregnancy and Prenatal Assessment (3.75)
2. The Process of Labor and Birth (8.6)
3. Complications of Pregnancy (10.0)
4. Complications of Pregnancy, Part II (6.5)
5. Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care (5.8)
6. Newborn Assessment and Nursing Care (8.25)
7. Neonatal Complications (5.0)
8. Perinatal Medications (3.0)
9. Documentation, Communication and Risk Management (4.9)
10. Perinatal Loss (1.5)

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