44. What additional skills are recommended for post-cardiac catheterization recovery nurses who may not be included in perianesthesia competencies?

ECG interpretation should include recognition of ischemia, injury, and infarct, and the use of the cardioactive medications per the ACLS protocols.
Pacing with the transvenous and transcutaneous pacer; defibrillation, cardioversion, and set up; and monitoring a patient with a femoral, brachial, or radial arterial line.
12-lead ECG; drawing blood from central and arterial lines.
Management of heparin, IIb/IIIa fibrinolytics, Argatroban or lepirudin infusions; IV vasopressors such as nitroglycerine, dopamine, milrinone.
IV moderate sedation credentials and assisting with sterile procedures.