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CC02 Cardio: Patient Assessment and Diagnostic Tests

Price: $25.00
Nursing CE: 1.00
This course is accessible until 3/1/2027
This course is also available in one or more course bundles.

This cardiovascular course presents an overview of the cardiovascular patient assessment process and a review of the cardiovascular diagnostic tools used for evaluation. Signs and symptoms of cardiovascular dysfunction are discussed, and techniques for auscultating heart sounds and taking a pertinent cardiovascular patient history are described. Course content includes descriptions of blood tests and invasive and non-invasive procedures used to evaluate and diagnose cardiovascular dysfunction.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

AdventHealth University Division – echelon® is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

echelon® is an approved CE provider by the Florida Board of Nursing.

AdventHealth University Division echelon is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider Number CPE16352.

ANCC Accredited Organization

This course reports to CE Broker

This cardiovascular course on patient assessment and diagnostic tests will assist the healthcare provider in their understanding and proficiency in:

  1. Recognizing auscultation findings of normal and abnormal heart sounds.
  2. The ability to assess findings of valvular disease and ventricular septal defects and fluid changes within the heart.
  3. Completing a pertinent cardiovascular patient history and identifying blood tests that are essential for cardiovascular assessment.
  4. Comparing the noninvasive tests used to evaluate for cardiovascular dysfunction.
  5. Discussing invasive cardiovascular tests and interventions.

Qualified Planners/Faculty

Revisioning Author: Leesuk Ferencsik, PhD, RN

is registered nurse (RN), an assistant professor at AdventHealth University (AHU), Orlando, Florida. Leesuk earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Korea Open University, South Korea, Master’s degree in Nursing Education from the University of Phoenix, and nursing PhD from Barry University, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Miami, Florida.

She has been a RN since 1989 and worked in both South Korea and the United States on long-term care facility, health clinic, and all levels of care in various acute care hospitals. Before she became a nursing faculty at AHU, she worked as a clinical nurse educator for a multisystem ICU, Surgical PCU, and Transplant Unit. Her roles of the nurse educator and mentor continued when she became a nursing faculty member at AHU. She had edited and published several research articles while working at AHU. Her teaching experience here at AHU includes both campus teaching for Genetic BSN (GBSN) and Distance education (RN-BSN).

Disclosures
This author has disclosed that there are neither conflicts of interest nor commercial affiliation with this activity.

Deborah Torres-Logan, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC

Ms. Deborah Torres-Logan is an adult nurse practitioner and works in the office setting seeing vascular patients. She graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL with her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. She graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL with her Master of Science in Nursing degree and Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. She graduated from Florida Hospital College of Health Science in Orlando, FL with her Associate of Science in Nursing degree. She is a former Instructor of  Nursing at Adventist Health University.  She is a member of the American Association of Nurse practitioners and the International Nursing Honor Society, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). She was the president of the Nursing Honor Society at Advent Health University in 2014-2015.  During her presidency, the nursing honor society applied to become a chapter of STTI and was approved.  She is a peer-reviewer for the Journal of American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She has been on clinical mission trips to Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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*There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those involved with the ability to control the content of this activity.

Revisioning Author: Lynette Woide, MSN, RN

Lynette Woide received her diploma of nursing from Fairview General Hospital School of Nursing.  She furthered her studies and obtained her BSN and MSN from the University of Phoenix.  Her professional career has focused on oncology. Lynette lives in Central Florida and now focuses her time working for echelon.

Disclosures
*There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those involved with the ability to control the content of this activity.

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Completion Requirements: To receive continuing education credit commensurate with the credit awarded for this on-line activity, the participant must:

  • View all modules and cases studies.
  • Participate and pass all Self-Checks and Post Test(s).
  • Complete and submit the on-line evaluation.

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