Preparing for OB Courses

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I'm an instructor for a staffing agency where we place international nurses in rural facilities. Our OB nurses are usually required to take AWHONN, STABLE, and NRP. Most of them have little to no experience with FHM. I'm trying to figure out the best way for our nurses to prepare for these courses. In the past they received the textbooks (NRP has the online lessons) but I was hoping to give them structured content. If you took any of these courses, how did you prepare for them? Thanks in advance for your help.

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I prepared for all of those courses by working on the unit with actual patients under the guidance of a preceptor. I watched her interpret FHR, slowly started to do it myself with her help, and took the courses after several months in order to become independent in FHR interpretation.

Really, I have no useful advice for you. The only way to help nurses become comfortable and familiar with interpreting FHR is to actually do it in a real-life setting. No amount of practice in a non-clinical setting was helpful to me. Perhaps some of the other L&D nurses here can be of assistance!

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They try to coordinate the new hired nurses at my facility so that they take a beginners fetal monitoring course during orientation. They hire an instructor several times a year to come and teach. New hires are given a certain amount of time during their first year to get NRP and ACLS, for this they receive books and or handouts to prepare for the test. Stable is not a requirement on our unit.

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