Hear My Heartbeat: Identifying Murmurs, Bruits and Thrills

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Performing a comprehensive cardiac assessment requires skills in recognizing abnormal heart sounds. This session provides knowledge and skills necessary in identifying abnormal heart sounds and murmurs in the adult patient. Thorough cardiac examination is key to early recognition and management of pathologic diseases associated with abnormal heart sounds. This session utilizes interactive case studies to impact learner outcomes.

Objectives

Explain mechanisms which cause heart sounds and murmurs.
Identify heart sounds and murmurs, causes, location for acusculation and in what part of the cardiac cycle the murmur is best heard.
Correlate the heart sounds to disease pathologies.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

The Nurse Planner has determined that no individuals with the ability to control content of this activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies.

Activities with pharmacotherapeutic credit are to assist the APRN in fulfilling their education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.