About this Event
🫀 Real-World Skills & Readiness Lab™: Cardiac Rhythm Interpretation - Part 1 / 2
The monitor beeps. The rhythm changes. And for a lot of us, that split second still brings a flash of "wait, is that normal?"
You're not alone in that, and you don't have to stay there. This half-day workshop with Darlene Hutton, RN, BScN, MSN, President of QRS Educational Services, gives you a systematic, repeatable way to read cardiac rhythms so you're not relying on memorization or guesswork in the moment.
No prior ECG experience required. This is Part 1 of a two-part series and works perfectly as a standalone session. Part 2 (ECG Assessment) builds on these skills when you're ready for it.
This interactive half-day workshop is ideal for:
- Travel Nurses
- Nursing students
- New graduate nurses
- Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs)
- RPNs and RNs transitioning into acute or higher-acuity settings
- Anyone seeking a practical, judgment-free refresher
📍 What You’ll Gain
- A step-by-step framework for reading any rhythm strip
- The ability to tell normal from abnormal, quickly and confidently
- An understanding of common arrhythmias and why they matter clinically
- Real patient case scenarios to practice on, not just theory
- The language to communicate and escalate what you're seeing
- A calmer, steadier reaction the next time the monitor changes
🩺 How It Works
Small-group, hands-on, and interactive, this session runs live at the Nurse Decoded Simulation Lab, whether you're joining in person or online. Guided instruction, real discussion, and practical rhythm interpretation exercises, not a pre-recorded lecture.
Ask questions. Get it wrong. Try again. That's the point.
Online participants are fully part of the room: your questions get seen and voiced in real time, this is a psychologically safe space built for learning, not evaluating.
📝 Workshop Details
- 4-hour in-person session 10:00 - 14:00 EST
- Available Live Online; or in person at the Nurse Decoded Simulation Lab (downtown Toronto, near Richmond & Spadina)
- Certificate of attendance provided to all participants
- No prerequisite, this is exactly where beginners start
📄 Certification & CE/PD Credits
🔑 Certificate of attendance issued to all attendees.
🌟Continuing Education: The Competency Assessment is offered at the end of the Part 2 (12-Lead ECG Interpretation) session. Passing it earns you 8 contact hours toward your CE credits, covering both Part 1 and Part 2.
⏳Completion of this competency assessment must occur within 2 weeks following the workshop.
CE credits are issued through QRS's Florida State Board accreditation (valid across the US, excluding Maryland and New York). PENDING APPROVAL
⚡ Spots are limited
🏷️ $80 + HST, whether you join in person or online
Event venue & nearby stays
Nurse Decoded, 477 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada
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