• AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Classes
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    Ready for Intermediate Fetal Monitoring

    Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring is a 2 day course packed with lots of great information to empower you to care for a laboring mother.  We will learn how to perform the Leopold maneuver on a gravid woman to determine fetal presentation, lie, and point of maximal intensity of the uterus for fetal auscultation with a pregnant manikin.   We will learn how to place the fetal spiral electrode and the uterine catheter with a manikin with a vaginal canal.   We will discuss the causes of abnormal fetal and maternal occurrences – remember the VEAL CHOP in Basic Fetal Heart Monitoring?   Cheryl’s admission will be discussed.  She will have…