Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences offers a nine-month Heart Rhythm Device Nurse Fellowship at Mayo Clinic's campus in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona.

The Heart Rhythm Device Nurse Fellowship at Mayo Clinic is a new and innovative program, supporting our commitment to excellence in patient care and nursing education. Graduates will be proficient in assessing and optimizing cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization devices, and implantable loop recorders.

The program provides approximately 1,440 hours of educational content (online modules/classes/didactic) and supervised clinical experiences caring for patients with CIEDs across the clinical spectrum. The learning methods include self-learning modules, EP conferences with case presentations, didactic material, journal club, and a professional development project.

Program highlights

Participants in this fellowship will:

• Learn to integrate evidence-based practice guidelines, symptom assessment, standards and protocols in assessment, and programming of a patient’s CIED in all practice areas (ambulatory clinic, inpatient, procedural, peri-operative, remote monitoring) across the continuum of care.
• Learn to interrogate and troubleshoot CIEDs in a variety of clinical settings.
• Develop skills for management of patients in the EP procedural lab including the Bloom stimulator, tilt table testing, management of CIED patients undergoing MRI, and echo-guided optimizations of CIEDs.
• Apply clinical skills to provide safe, effective, and compassionate patient care to patients with CIEDs.
• Discuss learning and performance goals for life-long, self-directed learning in the specialty of cardiac electrophysiology to enhance and innovate patient care.

Completion and certification

After successfully completing this fellowship, you will receive a Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences certificate documenting completion of a 9-month fellowship specializing in care of patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices.

Graduates are eligible to take the Certified Cardiac Device Specialist (CCDS) through the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE).

Accreditation information

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