This program equips the participants with knowledge in heart physiology, characteristics of a normal ECG tracing and skills in ECG machine operation. The program is a mixture of theory and skills practice with ECG machines and simulators.
Parkway College offers a 12-hour ECG program for nurses and allied healthcare workers. This program equips the participants with knowledge in heart physiology, characteristics of a normal ECG tracing and skills in ECG machine operation. The program is a mixture of theory and skills practice with ECG machines and simulators.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, the learners must be able to:
describe the anatomy and physiology of the heart
describe the normal ECG tracing
perform basic ECG machine operation and lead corrections
Community Training Institute (CTI) strives to drive the development of the community care sector and the training of its staff.
It embarks on this agenda with quality education and community sector partners. With the breadth and depth of services provided by KWSH, ranging from residential care to day care, home care and even TCM services.
CTI together with its partners add value to trainees with hands-on blended training programmes, which are contextualised to suit the community care sector.
In collaboration with its partners, CTI provides courses which cover clinical and non-clinical areas.
Vision
Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH) is one of the Agency for Integrated Care’s (AIC) appointed Learning Institutes (LIs) in developing, delivering and administering training courses for the community care sector.
KWSH is also a member of the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) Learning Enterprise Alliance that is committed to strategic adoption of learning and innovation for work and at work for continuous performance improvement.
We aim to be the provider of choice for learning and training in the sector through the development and delivery of quality and affordable training.
This course equips the participants with knowledge and skills in; basic functions the heart, principles of ECG operation, checking the ECG strips for errors in recording. Recognition of normal ECG wave vs. arrhythmia and AMI.
This course aims to provide the nurses with the basic skills and knowledge in ECG monitoring, ECG rhythm interpretation, performing 12 lead ECG & monitoring patients on ambulatory monitoring (Telemetry).
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