OVERVIEW

Animated Cardiac Development is organized by RnCeus Interactive and will be held from Apr 09, 2019 - Feb 14, 2022.

Target Audience:
• Registered nurses interested in increasing their knowledge about embryological cardiac development and its relationship to congenital heart defects in children.
• Health care professionals working with patients affected by congenital heart defects.
• Any health care professional may use the multimedia displays and text as teaching aids for the purpose of patient/family education
• Nurses and other health professionals may earn 2 contact hours for completing this course.
? To earn 2 contact hours, participants must agree to spend no less than 120 minutes studying course material, exploring Internet links, and completing exam and evaluation.

Contact hours:
Participants who successfully complete all requirements are eligible to earn 2 continuing nursing education contact hours.

Course Overview:
This course was designed to enhance the participant's understanding of cardiac development. It illustrates development of the human heart, from the first pulsations of the primitive tube to the separation of arterial from venous blood flow. While navigating the course please be mindful of the delicate interplay that is the difference between normality and a congenital cardiac defect.

Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will:
• Describe the primitive cardiac tube, and its early growth in length, shape and function.
• Differentiate the early structures that transform the single chamber into the four chambered pump.
• Associate the openings between the heart's early chambers, and the walls that eventually separate those chambers.
• Describe the tissue growth that separates venous from arterial outflow tract.
• Review the order of major cardiac development events.
• Relate embryological events to potential cardiac defects in the fetus and newborn.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.