Sally2013

Dianah, Thank you for the comprehensive response. They may be asking too much, but is there a way I could view that "very thick" stress test manual? Or is there something similar online? Our system has a policy which is a few pages long. We also have a few page reference guide which I developed from an AACN CV certification review book. However, I feel like that is lacking. I also can't find any Stress Test Certification course online, so we don't have to recreate the wheel.

By physicians, APP, or other nurses? Did you feel like your training prepared you appropriately to stress test patients on your own without a cardiologist in the room?

I was curious how nurses at other organizations are trained to work in the stress lab. Is there a specific stress test course that you took and what was it? At my healthcare system, they take an aacn ecg course, but it doesn't seem like it goes into depth about ST changes in each lead.

I have experienced one patient with a retroperitoneal bleed. She had abdominal pain, nausea, and hypotension. It was diagnosed approximately 2 hours after the procedure. The cause was that when the interventional cardiologist accessed the artery, he went through it. So, the actual site to me looked fine, but the patient was bleeding on the back side of the artery which was internal.