Description
Expand your clinical skills with these one-and-a-half-hour webinar series featuring leading thought leaders working in perinatal care. This session in the series, Assessment and Analysis of Uterine Activity: The Other Half of EFM, will describe fetal and maternal physiology during a uterine contraction, discuss uterine activity assessment during labor, and distinguish between normal and abnormal uterine contraction patterns, including an interactive and collaborative review of fetal heart tracing monitor strips with Suzanne McMurtry Baird, DNP, RN, Nursing Director, Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics, LLC, and Jean Salera-Vieira, DNP, APRN-CNS, RNC, Director, Clinical Program Development, AWHONN.
Presenters
Suzanne McMurtry Baird, DNP, RN
Nursing Director, Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics, LLC
Jean Salera-Vieira, DNP, APRN-CNS, RNC
Director of Clinical Program Development at the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
Recorded Date
May 25, 2021
Learning Objectives
Discuss techniques used to assess uterine activity.
Distinguish normal uterine activity from tachysystole.
Recommend strategies to assess and document uterine activity.
Contact Hours
1.5 nursing contact hours (CNE available through 05/25/2024)
Content for this CNE activity was reviewed and deemed current, relevant, applicable to nursing practice by Jean Salera-Vieira, DNP, APRN-CNS, RNC, AWHONN Nurse Planner on 11.8.2022 with nursing contact hours awardable through 05/25/2024.
AWHONN Accreditation Statement
The 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 ANCC 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.