A foundational course for the inpatient APP, Applied Cardiovascular Hemodynamics provides essential content on hemodynamic monitoring, waveforms, variables, such as cardiac output, and concepts, such as preload and afterload. This course will enhance your knowledge and equip you with the information you need to improve your practice when managing various disease states.
Course Objectives
- Discuss indications for hemodynamic monitoring.Â
- Describe methods of hemodynamic monitoring.Â
- Recognize abnormal hemodynamic waveforms and associated pathophysiology.Â
- Discuss hemodynamic variables, including measures of tissue oxygenation and determinants of cardiac output.Â
- Describe the impact of increased preload, afterload, and contractility on left ventricular function.Â
- Determine measures of volume responsiveness in critically ill patients.Â
- Identify priority interventions in diverse patients with hemodynamic instability.Â
Course Faculty
C. NaChae Wrenn, MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC
The faculty or planning committee members have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.Â
Course Hours Awarded
Participants will be awarded 1.5 contact hours.
Contact hours will be awarded upon completion of the activity and by obtaining an 80% or greater on the post-activity quiz.
Exceed Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New Mexico Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval Number: 2211-03 API.Â
This activity will expire 5.15.2026.Â
