Cath Lab Nursing Help

[S.T.A.C.E.Y, LPN]

I'm doing an assignment for a post-grad RN course, specific to cardiac nursing. I followed a patient through the cath lab and into CCU, and now have to write a case study about it.

One criteria of the assignment states: "Discuss nursing concerns during the procedure and potential risks to the patient". I can write about this no problem, but need some journal articles to back up what I'm saying.

Can anyone suggest some good articles to use here? I've found lots out there, but mostly very medical/scientific studies. Do you know of anything better, more geared to nursing?

Thanks for your help!

S.T.A.C.E.Y

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

Stacey- narrow your database search to the CINAHL database. Try that, and see what you come up with.

[S.T.A.C.E.Y, LPN]

Ok, I've tried several database searches including CINAHL, but have only come up with about three articles so far. I found three about the patient's perspective, and the nurses role in decreasing anxiety, and helping the patient through the procedure. I found one list of cath lab nursing competencies.....but thats it.

Does anyone know of an article out there that discusses the cath lab nurse's role?!

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee???

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

OK- check out the references in the articles you found, and see what you can dig up from those, too. Sometimes, the best articles are found in references of other articles- especially if a lit review has been done.

[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

I thought you said your assignment was about the patient risks and nursing interventions related to them - not to the nurse's role in cath lab. I doubt you'll really find much literature containing a job description. You will find a lot about potential patient risks and nursing interventions post catheterization. I would search things like "post catheter", "nursing intervention", "angiography" etc.

[Karen56MAtoSC]

Have you tried Cath Lab Digest?

[S.T.A.C.E.Y, LPN]

Have you tried Cath Lab Digest?

Thankyou very much for that suggestion! I'll look for articles from there!

[S.T.A.C.E.Y, LPN]

I thought you said your assignment was about the patient risks and nursing interventions related to them - not to the nurse's role in cath lab. I doubt you'll really find much literature containing a job description. You will find a lot about potential patient risks and nursing interventions post catheterization. I would search things like "post catheter", "nursing intervention", "angiography" etc.

Actually, the assignment has several parts. Initially I was looking for info for one section, then started looking for info on other sections.

Thankyou for the search word suggestions.....I will try those.