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  • 1.  Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-12-2023 16:29
    Edited by Mrs. Aimee Hartle, BSN, CCRN, RN 06-12-2023 16:44

    Hello,

    I am wondering how many device clinics are run completely by RN's & Device Techs and not PA's or NP's (if any)? I am speaking specifically to the annual in-office interrogation visits. Not the remotes.

    Could you be so kind as to reply with your facility name and if this applies to your clinic? We are gathering data for our admins and they would like to know how common this is throughout the country/world.

    Thanks!

    Aimee, RN



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    Aimee Hartle BSN, RN, CCRN
    Registered Nurse
    VCU Health
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  • 2.  RE: Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-12-2023 16:32

    We run our device clinic with Device Technicians at Carient Heart and Vascular. We also read the ambulatory monitors so we split the tasks between staff. Device checks and remotes are done by staff who have had the training.



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    Renny Mullins
    Device Clinic Manager
    8100 Ashton Avenue, Suite 200
    Manassas, VA 20109
    O 877.415.4116 Ext. 1111 | F 703.335.5781 | C 540.931.5275
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  • 3.  RE: Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-12-2023 16:46
    Edited by Mrs. Aimee Hartle, BSN, CCRN, RN 06-12-2023 16:54

    Hello! Thanks for the prompt reply, I edited my question afterwards. Sorry for any confusion. I am asking about the in-office annual interrogation visits and not the remote device checks. Do you all have an NP, PA, or MD at these clinics? Or do you just have RN's or DT's doing this with an MD available if needed whom then signs off on it at somepoint? Thanks



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    Aimee Hartle BSN, CCRN, RN
    Registered Nurse
    VCU Health
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  • 4.  RE: Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-13-2023 08:41

    Hi Aimee.  At Emory Healthcare our Device RNs and Cardiac Device Specialists/Technicians  see patients independently, and our physicians sign off on the reports.  All device staff are trained to interrogate and program devices, and interpret arrhythmia egrams. We have a comprehensive physician notification protocol and escalate urgent issues directly to our EP MDs.  We also have  one APP  available if needed.

    Hope this helps.

     

    Sallie Gustafson, RN, CCDS

    Sr Manager, Emory Cardiac Device Clinics

    404.778.4942

     




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  • 5.  RE: Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-13-2023 08:20

    Our clinic operates with mostly technologists and one RN.  I will assist in clinic oftentimes as well. I am currently recruiting an additional RN. Our APPs have their own schedules.  We usually have one APP that will assist us with patients that are having any urgent issues or an EP doc that we can consult with.

     

    Michael Silva, RN, RCES, CCDS
    Device Clinic Manager

    WellSpan Heart & Vascular Center
    msilva@wellspan.org
    Office 717-741-8672
    30 Monument Rd York, PA 17403

    Chat with me on Microsoft Teams

     

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  • 6.  RE: Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-13-2023 09:02

    Our device clinic is overseen by an APP/MD bur run by RN's. We have one RN who is a Clinical Leader and the Clinic has a Device Clinic Coordinator (myself - an NP)

    We follow 2600 patients with a 5 RN staff covering remotes, in person and in hospital. 



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    Danette Guertin MSN, APRN
    Device Program Coordinator
    Hartford Hospital
    Hartford CT
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  • 7.  RE: Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-13-2023 09:03

    For further clarification we also have an NP, PA or MD in attendance at in person clinics



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    Danette Guertin MSN, APRN
    Device Program Coordinator
    Hartford Hospital
    Hartford CT
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  • 8.  RE: Who has RN & DT Driven Device Clinics?

    Posted 06-13-2023 13:56

    Hello Aimee!

     

    Sorry about responding so late after your original message.

     

    At Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute (North & South Carolina), our device clinic team includes 1 RN Director, 2 RN Supervisors, 18 RNs and 6 Device Technicians following 12,000 + patients.

     

    Our Pediatric EP MDs check patients occasionally in regional offices, but otherwise, we are completely staffed with RNs and Device Technicians. APPs do not check devices.

     

    Hope that helps!

     

    Amy G. Tucker, MSN, RN, CCDS 

    Clinical Nurse Supervisor 

    Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute 

    Cardiac Device Clinic

    Office: 704-446-2241 | Cell: 704-408-7458 | Fax: 704-468-3173 

     

     

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