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12-Lead ECG Interpretation: Essential Skills for Clinical Practice


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Categories:
Critical Care |  Emergency |  Med-Surg |  Progressive Care/Stepdown
Speaker:
Alex Klacman, PhD, RN. CV-BC, CCRN
Program Type:
Continuing Education
Duration:
1-Day Event
License:
Expires 35 day(s) after end date.

Dates


Overview

Target Audience

RN, CNS, LPN/LVN, NP


Course Description

This class is an introduction to 12-Lead ECG interpretation for acute and critical care nurses, advanced practice nurses and anyone who needs to be able to interpret an ECG in his or her clinical practice. Content includes anatomy of a 12-Lead ECG, how leads record electrical activity traveling through the heart, normal waveforms and intervals and how each lead should look on a normal ECG. Additional content includes an easy way to determine the QRS axis and its clinical implications; recognition of right and left bundle branch blocks; and ECG criteria for recognizing myocardial ischemia, injury and infarction.

Key Learning Outcome

  • After completeing the program, 80% of participants will report an increase in knowledge that will positively impact their practice.

Program Objectives

This program prepares the learner to:

  • Identify a normal 12-Lead ECG.
  • Demonstrate the ability to calculate the QRS axis on selected ECGs.
  • Identify right and left bundle branch block.
  • Recognize ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) on the 12-Lead ECG.
  • Recognize signs of ischemia and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) on the 12-Lead ECG.

Contact Hours


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Contact Hours: 7 

 

MED-ED, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

 

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Speaker

Alex Klacman, PhD,  RN. CV-BC, CCRN's Profile

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Dr. Klacman currently resides in Dallas-Ft. Worth. She is an assistant tenure-track professor at Texas Woman’s University-Dallas in the Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing, where she teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. She is the former system education specialist of critical care for Texas Health Resources, a large healthcare system across DFW. She is an experienced critical care nurse and practiced at the bedside for eight years prior to moving into education. She was the first person globally to implement the Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI)™ Program at an organization during her time as the American Heart Coordinator/Life Support educator. Her interests include best practices in resuscitation education, care of critically ill cardiac patients and basic/advanced ECG interpretation.

Dr. Klacman has been with MED-ED since 2016 and teaches a variety of cardiac and critical care courses. She has been a presenter at multiple local, state, national and international conferences. She has been a reviewer for AACN’s Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) modules related to pulmonary and cardiac disorders. Alex obtained her research doctorate in nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), where she studied outcomes from the RQI Program. Her research interest focuses on CPR quality in morbidly obese patients. She currently works PRN in the CVICU at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital-Dallas and is an acute care nurse practitioner student at UTA. She has been honored as a Great 100 Nurse of DFW and as a winner of the D Magazine Excellence in Nursing Award.

 


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Overton Brooks VA Medical Center

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