Tracy,

At our facility we have a heart monitoring station. We have nurses and techs that monitor these stations. They all have to have a 12 lead class. We also have stat nurses that make rounds on these patients on the medical/surgical units. When there is a problem they call the unit and let them know. If there is a serious problem they will call the stat nurses who are all critical care nurses. We have a rapid response team that can be activated if the nurses feel something is not right with the patient. This has worked very well at our facility.  Marie

 

Marie Hamrick, RN, MSN, CCRN
Nursing Informatics Clinical Educator
Ext: 37249
Pager: 401-1195

>>> "Tracy Kaltenbacher" <tkaltenbacher@...> 7/15/2008 15:28 >>>

We are exploring remote monitoring medical patients in our Medical
Surgical units. These nurses have no cardiac or even basic ecg
experience/education. I'm trying to find out how other hospitals
perform remote monitoring and how to educate/support my nurses when
basic ecg is not a requirement of their position. What happens in your
hospital? What protocols or resources do you have in place, and more
importantly what works well?
Thank you!

Tracy Kaltenbacher
Clinical Nurse Educator
Medical Surgical Module
Renown Regional Medical Center
Reno, NV
tkaltenbacher@renown.org