Ecg Training For Nurses

ECG Interpretation

Our simple and straight forward approach to ECGs allows all practitioners to understand and utilise this skill-set in all healthcare settings. Our ECG CPD module is our blended course i.e. Virtual training day/then 3 months access to the online course. It is suitable for all grades of staff in both primary and secondary. Our next available date is December 13th 2021 – please follow the link below. This subject tends to cause a lot of anxiety for practitioners but our approach makes it easier to understand and allows practitioners to make sound clinical decisions ensuring patient safety. Our approach uses some of the technology available plus some visual cues. Our trainer Lee Wadsworth facilitates ECG training workshops in the UK and globally. 

ECG INTERPRETATION COURSE VIRTUAL

ECG INTERPRETATION COURSE ONLINE

Course content includes :

• Introducation and the basics.
• Cardiac conduction.
• PQRST.
• Using the technology.
• The rhythm strip.
• Sinus Rhythm, Sinus Bradycardia and Tachycardia.
• Heart blocks.
• Atrial fibrillation.
• Bundle branch blocks.
• Left ventricular hypertrophy.
• Myocardial ischaemia.
• Myocardial infarction.
• Wolf parkinson white syndrome.
• QT prolongation.
• ECG examples.

We now deliver this course virtually or soon in an eLearning format. Please visit our new education platform below.

ECG INTERPRETATION COURSE

Testimonials

” A & L Healthcare have provided training for our Drs, Nurses & Healthcare assistants over the past five years. Rather than just providing training days they have also developed competency packages for all grades of staff so that we can maintain high clinical standards for our patients and ensure skill acquisition”.

What Are The Benefits Of An ECG Interpretation Course?

Before you know about the benefits of an ECG Interpretation Course, there are certain things to know about ECG itself.

Electro Cardio Gram i.e. ECG is a machine that records the electrical activity of your heart. Cardiac muscle, like all other body muscles, reacts to electrical depolarization and produces certain electrical signals. These electrical signals formed due to heartbeats produce an ECG strip. That’s when the ECG interpretation is required. The interpretation of this ECG strip is, of course, done by a healthcare professional. But it’s found that many a time even a healthcare professional find it difficult to interpret an ECG strip and ECG interpretation is one of the oldest yet simplest forms of cardiac investigation and assessment. These are the reasons that ECG Interpretation Course has been introduced.

ECG Interpretation Course

An ECG Interpretation Course is a program especially introduced and designed in a way that healthcare professionals can master in analyzing ECG. Though, having a modern machine, it’s quick and easy to have the electrical depiction of heart, but, for making easy interpretation of the ECG strip, an ECG Interpretation Course is required.

Benefits of ECG Interpretation Course

Who Will Benefit from Doing The Course?

ECG Interpretation Course would benefit nurses working in cardiac units with monitored patients, coronary care units (CCU), intensive care units (ICU), emergency nurses, practice nurses and ambulance officers, just to name few, would be benefiting doing the ECG Interpretation Course.

Ensures Appropriate Medical Intervention without Delay

Primary health clinics, doctor’s clinics, pathology labs, cardiac wards, general wards, proactive screening and emergency departments, just to name few places, ECG is everywhere. Certainly, ECG is performed on large number of patients in various clinical environments. And you might be working in an area where you have to take an ECG or have ECG monitored patients. There are situations which require early recognition of abnormal rhythms. So, knowing how to interpret and analyze an ECG strip does apparently ensure appropriate medical intervention and transfer to tertiary care without any delay.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes of ECG Interpretation Course are the most crucial and important part of the course. This course will enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence to analyze ECGs. By the end of the course you’ll be able to:

• Give a detailed account of normal cardiac anatomy, physiology and blood flow through the heart
• Calculating heart rate
• Give a detailed account of conduction system of heart
• Classify normal and abnormal rhythm and components on ECG i.e. Assessment of rhythm
• Observe abnormal waveforms., measure intervals and segments and evaluate other relevant waves
• Analyze the ECG in Coronary Heart Diseases and Cardiac Arrhythmias.