EFM Courses

EFM Certification Review

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

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Miami Valley Hospital
Berry Building
Bieser Auditorium
1 Wyoming St.
Dayton, OH 45409

Faculty

Nancy O’Brien-Abel, MN, RNC, is a perinatal clinical nurse specialist with over 30 years’ experience in caring for women with normal and complicated pregnancies. As an Affiliate Instructor, University of Washington School of Nursing, and a former Teaching Associate, University of Washington Medical School, she has actively focused on multi-disciplinary education and collaboration. Nancy is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and consultant on nursing care of women in labor and birth, fetal monitoring, and patient safety. She is an active member in AWHONN, contributing to various position statements, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, and co-editing and authoring chapters in AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing, as well as authoring chapters in AWHONN's Fetal Heart Monitoring: Principles and Practice. In addition, she is an Editorial Board member for the American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing (MCN). Nancy received her Master of Nursing from the Perinatal CNS Program, University of Washington, and is NCC certified.

Schedule

8 a.m. - Physiologic Basis of Fetal Monitoring
9:30 a.m. - Break
9:45 a.m. - FHR Patterns, Clinical Implications, Management
11:45 a.m. - Lunch
12:45 p.m. - Relating FHR and Umbilical Artery Cord Gases
1:15 p.m. - Additional Considerations
2:45 p.m. - Adjunct Fetal Assessment
3 p.m. - Adjourn

Course Objectives

  • Apply knowledge of fetal oxygenation and FHR regulation to interpretation and management of FHR tracings 
  • Differentiate between FHR characteristics suggestive of normal fetal acid-base status versus abnormal acid-base status 
  • Discuss the use of in-utero resuscitation measures for various FHR tracings 
  • Relate FHR patterns and umbilical artery cord gases 
  • Apply knowledge of pregnancy complications to develop plan of care based on EFM data 
  • Discuss various adjunct fetal assessment methods to determine fetal well-being