Hoag Hospital Newport Beach

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Specializes in Physical Rehabilitation.

Anyone taken the ECG test at this hospital? I've never worked on a Tele floor and have been studying but could use some tips of anyone has ever taken it.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Did you take it yet? The rules of the test are you can't miss any of the lethal rhythms on the strips they give you. Tele nurses and other monitored units have to take a rhythm test every year. If you don't pass it you get one repeat... fail it again you get some sort of counseling, fail it a third time and you get transferred to a unmonitored floor.

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If it is still in print, "Dubin's Rapid Interpretation of EKGs", is the book to learn arrythmias. I used it 30+ years ago.

Try Amazon, if you can't find it in a medical bookstore.

Lindarn, RN, BSN,CCRN

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Yes that book still exists and is awesome!

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