Trainee experience

The Heart Rhythm Device Nurse Fellowship prepares you for professional practice in ambulatory, remote, and hospital-based cardiac device clinics.

Throughout this fellowship, you will:

• Learn through didactic education via online courses, textbooks (Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation, and Resynchronization: A Clinical Approach), journal articles, and hands-on supervised clinical experiences.
• Have opportunities to rotate through many different clinical areas associated with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs).
• Have opportunities to utilize skills mastered (remote monitoring) in independent practice while building your skill set to more advanced skills.

Clinical training and rotations

The fellow will have clinical training in the Device Clinic, rotating through the various roles and assignments:

• Ambulatory clinic
• Remote Monitoring
• Hospital inpatient
• Hospital perioperative
• Procedures
• MRI
• Tilt Table Tests
• EP Lab - focus on device implants

Additional mini rotations include:

• Heart failure
• LVAD
• Inpatient rounds
• EP Triage RNs

Didactic coursework

Didactic learning will include:

• Online modules
• EP Conferences taught by EP consultants, EP and cardiology fellows, faculty, and Device Clinic staff nurses on a variety of topics relevant to EP and Cardiac Pacing
• Present at EP Conferences
• Grand Rounds
• Industry-led courses and hands-on educational opportunities
• Monthly department education, and Lunch and Learn
• Professional development project

Department and faculty

The Heart Rhythm Device Nurse Fellowship is coordinated and taught by the Device Clinic RN faculty, EP consultants, and experienced preceptors. Faculty and preceptors are committed to their own clinical practice, high-quality patient care, and teaching.

Facilities

Mayo Clinic's Arizona campus has two main locations. Mayo Clinic’s location in Phoenix is home to the state-of-the-art Mayo Clinic Hospital, the first hospital entirely designed and built by Mayo Clinic. It has been recognized several times by Phoenix magazine as the "Best Hospital in Phoenix." Services in numerous medical and surgical disciplines are provided, including outstanding programs in cancer treatment and organ transplantation.

Mayo Clinic’s location in Scottsdale is centered around a beautiful, five-story outpatient clinic. This modern facility contains extensive exam rooms, an outpatient surgery center equipped for general anesthesia, a full-service laboratory, pharmacy, patient education library, endoscopy suite, and a 188-seat auditorium for patient, staff, and student education programs.

Evaluation

Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences uses these evaluative tools:

• Online exams
• Demonstration of skills
• Self-assessment exercises
• Faculty reviews
• Formal presentations at staff meetings and EP Conferences
• Presentation of patient scenarios to faculty and preceptors
• Weekly reflective journal of clinical experiences

Mayo Clinic's system of evaluation provides students and faculty with a comprehensive look at individual performance. This allows faculty and administrative staff to direct students who are experiencing academic difficulty to the appropriate support resources, including tutoring programs and counseling opportunities.

Curriculum enhancements

Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences is committed to developing and maintaining the best educational programs. The curriculum and other aspects of this program are assessed constantly and changed as necessary to ensure the highest quality training.