No matter what stage you are in your career AWHONN’s FHM program has a course for you. AWHONN is the recognized leader in obstetric education. AWHONN’s convenient online and in-person formats are evidence-based and provide the essential tools necessary for educating the entire team. The text entitled Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles & Practice is a beneficial reference for course preparation.
Continue to expand your fetal monitoring clinical skills with the Read Between the Lines: FHM Review an interactive recorded webinar series. Each recorded session focuses on one topic related to fetal monitoring, featuring guidance and resources from leading thought leaders working in perinatal care.
An Introduction to Fetal Heart Monitoring
This interactive online program provides a basic introduction to fetal heart monitoring. The course modules cover maternal-fetal oxygenation, fetal heart rate auscultation, contraction palpation, electronic monitoring instrumentation, tracing analysis and interpretation, along with principles of documentation, communication and risk management. Periodic exercises and knowledge checks are included.
This course addresses principles of fetal heart monitoring and may be used as a knowledge assessment tool to validate comprehension of experienced perinatal clinicians. This course includes lecture, hands-on skill stations including performing Leopold maneuvers, placement of an intrauterine pressure catheter and fetal spiral electrode, interpretation of fetal monitoring tracings using a case-based approach, identification of physiologically based clinical interventions, and communication and risk management principles. Online prerequisite education is required prior to attending the one-day course. Successful completion of the online knowledge validation test is required to receive nursing contact hours/CME for the course. This course can be used to support preparation for certification examinations.
Nursing contact hours: 11.25/11.25
(0.5 hours pharmacology credits available)*
Nursing contact hours expires: 1.31.2025
Format: Online prerequisite education, followed by a one-day, Instructor-led course
Take if: You’re a clinician who has completed entry-level/basic fetal monitoring education and use fetal heart monitoring in the intrapartum setting.
Cost: $135 member/non-member
Large volume discounts are available for orders placed through Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Note: Instructor fees for teaching the courses are not included in the listed AWHONN prices.
The Advanced Fetal Heart Monitoring course expands on knowledge and physiological principals presented in the AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Course. This course uses a case study approach to focusing on the analysis of maternal-fetal physiology related to complex clinical information and fetal heart rate tracings. The course emphasizes the physiology of fetal-maternal oxygenation, interpretation of tracings, the selection of clinical interventions, and perinatal risk-management principles. An optional knowledge integration test in available.
Nursing contact hours: 7/7
(0.75 hours of pharmacology credits available)*
Nursing contact hours expires: 1.31.2025
Format: One day, instructor-led course
Take if: You’re a perinatal clinician who has completed the AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced Coursework, or a comparable fetal monitoring education program and/or who holds certifications or added credentials in fetal heart monitoring.
Cost: $110 members/non-members
Large volume discounts are available for orders placed through Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Note: Instructor fees for teaching the courses are not included in the listed AWHONN prices.
Intermediate Instructor Workshop
This workshop is taught by AWHONN approved Instructor Trainers. The workshop prepares participants to teach the Intermediate Course. Content includes principles and application of adult learning theory as applicable for teaching the Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Course such as: integration of principles of adult learning into the didactic and skills course components, incorporate appropriate teaching methods and strategies during the lecture, demonstrate entry-level proficiency in teaching and guiding participants during the skill stations, and demonstrate knowledge of the assigned components of the course during the micro-teach. Information about the administrative and operational aspects of FHM are presented. This course is the initial step for individuals who wish to become approved AWHONN FHM Program Instructors.
Nursing contact hours: 5.75
Nursing contact hours expires: 1.31.2025
Format: Online prerequisite education, followed by four-hour instructor-led workshop.
Take if: You’re a licensed registered nurse or licensed physician.
Cost: $225 members/non-members
Large volume discounts are available for orders placed through Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Note: Instructor fees for teaching the courses are not included in the listed AWHONN prices.
Accreditation Statement
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Accredited status does not imply endorsement by AWHONN or the American Nurses Credentialing Center of any commercial products displayed or discussed in conjunction with an educational activity.
AWHONN is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP580.
*Accreditation Statement – Physicians, this activity was planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AffinityCE and AWHONN. AffinityCE is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians
