Quality Education Services (QES) and Carol Jacobson, provide cardiovascular education
programs in Seattle, Washington and surrounding areas.
Quality Education Services Classes - Spring 2008
Cardiac Nursing Curriculum - 5 Day Series:
Shoreline Conference Center: 18560 1st Ave. NE in Shoreline, WA
Day 1: March 17
Day 2: March 24
Day 3: March 31
Day 4: April 14
Day 5: April 21
Legal Nurse Consulting
March 3: St. Lukes Community Education Center in Bellingham, WA
12 Lead ECG Interpretation:
February 8: St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, WA
May 22: Swedish Medical Center - Cherry Hill Campus in Seattle, WA
Cardiovascular Drug Review:
April 14: Shoreline Conference Center in Shoreline, WA (Seattle)
April 17: Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls, OR
May 29: Tacoma General Hospital - Jackson Hall in Tacoma, WA
Heart Failure & Acute Coronary Syndrome:
April 21: Shoreline Conference Center in Shoreline, WA (Seattle)
June 16: Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis, OR
Advanced Arrhythmia Interpretation
May 16: Providence Everett Medical Center in Everett, WA
April 16: Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford, OR
Hemodynamic Monitoring
April 30: Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, WA
All classes start at 8 AM and end by 4:30 PM
For more information, call or email:
Quality Education Services
(206) 246-8700
qeskrit @aol.com
Program Descriptions:
Following is a list of critical care programs and topics offered by Quality Education Services. Each full day workshop can be presented as a one day program or broken down into its parts for shorter individual presentations. Create an individualized program to meet your staff’s needs by combining topics from different programs. All programs are approved by AACN for continuing education credit.
Cardiac Nursing Curriculum
This 5-day course is designed to supplement your basic cardiac-care training program or progressive care course. The goal is to add to the knowledge that you already use when caring for cardiac patients and go more in-depth into the most important topics related to providing excellent cardiac care to patients. This course will help prepare you to take any cardiac nursing certification exam. Each individual day is approved for 8 contact hours of continuing education.
Day 1: Miscellaneous Cardiac Topics
Content: cardiovascular A&P, physical assessment, valve disease,
hypertension, dyslipidemias, cardiomyopathies, infectious diseases.
Day 2: Cardiac Arrhythmia Review
Content: review of arrhythmia interpretation skills, bradycardias and their treatment, tachycardias and their treatment, pacemakers, ablation, ICDs
Day 3: 12 Lead ECG Fundamentals
Content: basic 12 lead ECG, leads, axis, bundle branch block, bedside
monitoring principles, wide QRS patterns.
Day 4: Cardiovascular Drug Review (see description below)
Day 5: Heart Failure and Acute Coronary Syndrome (see description below)
12 Lead ECG Interpretation (7 contact hours)
Introduction to the 12 leads
Axis determination
Bundle branch block
Fascicular blocks
Myocardial ischemia, injury, and infarction
Advanced Arrhythmia Interpretation (7 contact hours)
Differentiating wide QRS rhythms: aberration or ventricular ectopy?
Narrow QRS tachycardias
Wide QRS tachycardias
Preexcitation syndromes
AV blocks
AV dissociation
Hemodynamic Monitoring (7 contact hours)
Cardiovascular physiology review: determinants of cardiac output and left
ventricular function curves
Normal and abnormal waveforms
Troubleshooting waveforms
Analyzing hemodynamic data
Effects of drugs on hemodynamics
Case studies
Pacemakers for Nurses (7 contact hours)
Indications for pacing
Basics of pacemaker function
Single chamber pacemakers: terminology and evaluation of function
Dual chamber pacemakers: terminology, timing cycles and evaluation of function
Rate responsive pacemakers
Biventricular pacing
Cardiovascular Drug Review (7 contact hours)
Physiological basis for drug therapy
Antiarrhythmic drugs
Beta blockers
Ca channel blockers
ACE inhibitors
Vasoactive drugs
Case study approach to ACLS drugs
Heart Failure & Acute Coronary Syndrome (7 contact hours)
Definitions and Types of Heart Failure
Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
Treatment of Heart Failure
Definition of ACS: Unstable Angina, STEMI, NSTEMI
Pathophysiology of ACS
Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease and ACS (including ECG changes, biomarkers) Treatment of STEMI and NSTEMI
Case Study
Basic Arrhythmia Review
This is a one-day review of all the basic cardiac arrhythmias and their drug and electrical treatment. Rhythms covered include sinus, atrial, junctional, ventricular, AV blocks, SVT. Treatments include commonly used drugs, pacing, ablation, and implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
Basic Arrhythmia Interpretation Course
This 2-day course covers all of the basic cardiac arrhythmias, their ECG recognition, and treatment. Practice strips done in class and as homework help facilitate learning.
Anatomy of cardiac conduction system
Basics of electrocardiography
Recognition and basic treatment of the following rhythms:
Sinus rhythms
Atrial rhythms
Junctional rhythms
Ventricular rhythms
AV blocks
Basic pacemaker rhythms (recognition of paced beats, evaluating capture and sensing)
To bring any of these programs to your hospital or organization, contact:
Quality Education Services
(206) 246-8700
qeskrit @aol.com