Martha Quetsch

Inova Medical Group Arrythmia 2021-2024

• Telephone Triage for new onset and recurrent Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmia.
• Collaboration with cardiologist and Electrophysiologists in providing plan of care for patients with arrhythmia, pacemaker, CRT-D, and temporary and permanent heart monitoring devices.
• Medication management and prior authorization.
• Delegation of Tasks
• Collaborate with Multidisciplinary team
• Patient education pre and post procedure
• Follow calls and symptom assessment post ablation.

Inova Medical Group Cardiology 2017-2021

• Cardiology advice nurse, telephone triage, and patient education.
• Develop protocols and standards of care for Cardiology clinic. Assisted with transmission of patient records to EMR.
• Assisted with practice of 3 providers. practice merger to combine over 20 cardiologists and a large multidiscinplary team to new location.
• Provided medication education and procedural education.
• Performed Stress testing , up to eight patients daily.
• INR and coumadin monitoring/ INR
• Delegation of staff assignments and tasks.

• Inova Progressive Coronary Care
• Participated in multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient care plan and recovery of patients post myocardial infarction
• Recovery and care of patients post Electrophysiology study.
• Recovery and care of patients post coronary intervention.
• Telemetry
• Patient education on medications ,and monitoring heart failure.
• provide care for patients with cardiomyapathies, arrhythmias.
• Cardioversion at bedside, for tachyarrhymias .
• Emergent treatment using ACLS protocol in tachyarrhythmias and brady arrhythmias.
• pacemaker care, pre and post implant to include transcutaneous pacing.

Interventional Cardiology (preop) Admission and Recovery

• Recovery of patients under going percutaneous coronary intervention recovery post ablation and post device implant
• Recovery of interventional radiology, uterine and liver ablations.
• Recovery device implants, mediport, drainage devices.
• Sepsis recognition and emergent treatment
• Stroke assessment and emergent intervention.
• Vascular hemostasis, access site assessment .
• Arterial sheath pulling. Management of vascular emergencies.
• Recognition and emergency management of retroperitoneal bleeds.
• Patient education of pre and post procedures .
• Discharge planning and follow up.
• Charge nurse and clinical staffing assignments.
• Peer orientation
• Peer review.
• Emergency management of acute MI, Arrhythmia, and vascular emergencies. to include gastrointestinal bleeding .
• Standardization of documentation and developing protocols for unit.