Foundation Electrocardiogram (ECG) Training
📅 Duration: 3 hours (half-day)
🎓 Accreditation: ✅ CPD Accredited
👩⚕️ Audience: Healthcare Assistants, Nursing Associates, Registered Nurses, General Practice Staff, Community Staff, Primary Care Teams and Healthcare Professionals involved in ECG recording.
🏥 Format: Available live online or face-to-face at your organisation
👥 Group Size: Up to 10 delegates
ECG Recording and Lead Placement Training
Course Details:
Accurate 12-lead ECG recording is an essential clinical skill across primary care, community and healthcare settings. Poor lead placement, recording quality or delayed escalation can contribute to missed cardiac abnormalities, inappropriate management and patient harm. This practical course explores ECG recording, lead placement, cardiac anatomy and physiology, consent, troubleshooting and recognising common ECG abnormalities at a foundation level.
Learners will develop confidence in preparing patients safely, obtaining high-quality ECG traces, recognising potentially abnormal findings and understanding when urgent escalation is required. The course also reinforces professional accountability, infection prevention, consent and working within scope of practice.
Around 7.6 million people in the UK are living with heart and circulatory diseases, making early recognition and investigation of cardiac symptoms increasingly important across healthcare services.
Learning Outcomes – Correct ECG Lead Placement Explained
By the end of this CPD-accredited course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the basic anatomy and physiology of the heart and how the conduction system creates an ECG trace.
- Identify common indications for performing a 12-lead ECG in primary and community settings.
- Prepare the patient and equipment safely, including consent, infection control, skin prep and positioning.
- Apply correct lead placement and carry out a 12-lead ECG, recognising factors that affect recording quality.
- Recognise key features of normal and abnormal ECG patterns at a foundation level, without interpreting beyond scope.
- Escalate ECG findings appropriately, understanding when patient symptoms or ECG changes require senior clinical review.
- Work within competence, following the NMC Code, local organisational policy and safe documentation principles.
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Why Choose Hickby?
👩⚕️ Nurse-led expertise
Delivered by experienced Clinical Nurse Educators with real-world practice.
🎓 CPD accredited
Assurance that training meets national professional standards.
📖 Evidence-based
Aligned with NICE, RCN, and NMC guidance for safe, effective care.
“Very engaging and informative ECG training. The explanation of lead placement and interpretation was clear, and I now feel much more confident performing ECGs independently.”
Healthcare Assistant
Primary Care Setting
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