Title

It's Time to Break Old Habits: Admitting STEMIs to the Telemetry Unit

Authors

Teresa Jahn, St. Cloud Hospital, CentraCare HealthFollow
Tanya Glenz, St. Cloud Hospital, CentraCare HealthFollow

Files

Description

Beginning December 2020 uncomplicated ST-Elevated MI patients will be admitted directly to Telemetry following intervention instead of CICU.

June 2020: Review and develop evidence- based exclusion criteria for admission to Telemetry

June 2020: Create a process for communication between the nursing supervisor, cath lab, Telemetry Unit and CICU for patient placement

Fall 2020: Meeting with Telemetry and CICU charge nurse, nursing supervisor and cath lab RN to discuss communication process

Dec 2020: Begin tracking STEMI patients

• Unit admitted to (Telemetry or CICU/ICU)
• Requiring transfer to CICU/ICU from Telemetry

Publication Date

2022

Keywords

STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction, CICU, Cardiac intensive care unit, Telemetry unit

Disciplines

Other Nursing

Comments

Nurses Week Poster 2022

Recommended Citation

Jahn, Teresa and Glenz, Tanya, "It's Time to Break Old Habits: Admitting STEMIs to the Telemetry Unit" (2022). Nursing Posters. 125.
https://digitalcommons.centracare.com/nursing_posters/125