Advanced Cardiac Arrhythmia Interpretation

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Accurate interpretation of complex cardiac arrhythmias is an advanced nursing skill which can impact patient outcomes. In this session, you gain proficiency and confidence in interpreting high-grade AV block, atrial tachyarrhythmias, AVNRT, AVRT in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and ventricular arrhythmias. You learn clinical pearls including the use of the Lewis lead, strategies for determining of the etiology of SVT and a practical methodology for differentiating SVT with aberrancy from VT.

Objectives

Correlate the physiological problem in heart block to the findings on the rhythm strip, presentation and required treatment.
Distinguish ectopy (VT) from aberrancy (SVT with BBB) based on QRS morphology in lead V1.
Differentiate between typical AVNRT and AVRT (orthodromic).

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.