Heart Smart Employees Understand the Language of Rhythms
Sixteen Trinitas employees recently received Certificates of Completion from the Education Department following the 20-hour Basic Cardiac Rhythm Interpretation Course they attended. As an approved provider of continuing education programs by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Education Department awarded the participants 24 contact hours upon completion of the course. At the outset of the course, instructor Connie Kozachek, RN, MSN, CCRN, BC, emphasizes the difficulty of accurately reading cardiac rhythms by noting that, "reading a rhythm strip is like reading a foreign language ...until you learn the translation."