Online 12 Lead EKG interpretation

Take the opportunity to learn how to confidently interpret EKG's from nurse practitioners who do this skill daily! With 3.0 ANCC Approved Contact hours, this course covers all basic interpretation as well as a fair amount of the more complex diagnostic capabilities of the 12 Lead EKG.

You need no experience with 12 lead EKG to attend, but competence in interpretation of cardiac rhythms is a recommended prerequisite.

This online, self-paced course is a pre-recorded presentation to a large group of new graduate nurses and nurse practitioners, with a conversational focus on simple concepts and eventually more complicated concepts demystified. Learners are capable of applying their learning immediately to real patients.

Content covered includes:

• Positioning of leads
• Cardiac anatomy
• Electrical Axis: Normal vs abnormal
• Left Anterior Fascicular Block
• Left Posterior Fascicular Block
• Left Bundle Branch Block
• Right Bundle Branch Block
• Myocardial Infarction types
• Underlying vascular tendencies for overlying EKG findings
• ST depressions, elevations, and q-wave abnormalities
• Pattern recognition for acute MI
• Inferior, Septal, Anterior, and Lateral MI
• Reciprocal changes commonly seen
• Dressler Syndrome/Pericarditis
• Hyper/hypocalcemia
• Hyper/hypokalemia
• Brugada Syndrome
• Long QT syndromes
• Pre-excitation
• Pulmonary Embolism/S1Q3T3
• Other common diagnoses made from EKGs
• Plenty more fun surprises

Skills on Point, LLC is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91).