Division of Nursing – Nursing Unit Highlights
Division of Nursing – Nursing Units – Telemetry
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Highlight on Telemetry The Telemetry unit is a 32 bed inpatient unit providing care to patients requiring continuous cardiac monitoring and/or nursing care intermediate to ICU and the general medical/surgical level of care. There are 32 additional remote monitoring units available for the monitoring of patients in other areas of the medical center. The predominate patient populations served are adult and geriatric patients. Infrequently a child, or adolescent patient may be served. The most frequent patient populations are: cardiac, pulmonary and medical. The predominate diagnostic groups served are Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, Acute Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, and Pacemaker implants. |
