QRS x Nurse Decoded Readiness Lab™: Cardiac Rhythm Interpretation (Part 1)

Cardiac rhythms don't have to feel like a foreign language. A hands-on half-day workshop built for beginners, no experience needed.
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