Can Doctors Benefit from NTA’s Telemetry Training?
Telemetry training is mandatory for monitoring technicians and highly essential for nurses. However, doctors, medical students, and other healthcare professionals can also benefit from learning the skill of reading an EKG monitor.
If you’re a doctor and love helping your patients, getting a telemetry certification from the National Telemetry Association can enable you to provide extra care to your patients. In addition to this, if you know how to read a heart monitor, it will help you respond to an emergency quickly.
Let’s take a look at all the reasons why doctors should get the same training as telemetry technicians:
1. Detecting Arrhythmias
If you know how to read a heart monitor, you will be able to detect arrhythmias on time and take action accordingly. The ups and downs of the heart can help determine if there are signs of possible arrhythmias or other conditions.
As a doctor, waiting for a telemetry technician to provide you with the necessary information can be time-consuming. On the other hand, if you can read an EKG monitor yourself, you won’t need to wait for a monitoring technician to show up.
2. Analyzing P-Waves
An abnormal P-wave in the heart’s electrical activity could mean your patient has a severe heart problem. If you detect the problem early on, you will be able to diagnose the patient and provide them with solutions before the problem increases.
3. Morphology
Morphology detects issues with the heart’s blood flow, chambers, and ventricular functions, and it can also indicate heart problems or other underlying issues. As a doctor, it will be easier for you to diagnose a patient if you know how to read the monitor.
4. Get Better at Your Job
As a doctor, you have taken an oath to protect your patients and provide them with the best possible medical care. Getting telemetry training will enable you to become better at your job and save more lives. In addition, you will get access to more knowledge and learn the latest methods and technologies used around the world.
5. You Will Learn New Things
The telemetry certification requires professionals to reappear for the renewal of their certificate every two years. This means you will constantly be learning new things about this field. In addition, you might even get better job offers because of the added skills.
Concluding Thoughts
If you want to gain access to telemetry training and get your hands on the certification, National Telemetry Association can help. We provide training sessions to doctors, nurses, and medical students all around the country. Register for our exams now! You may also register for Phlebotomy Career Training’s Electrocardiogram and Telemetry Course. The NTA’s national exams are included.
Nancy L. Kimmel obtained her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2002, then went on to teach Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University, Henry Ford College and Oakland University. She obtained her Associate in Nursing from Henry Ford College and then went on to earn her Master Degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner and became Board Certified working as a licensed FNP in the State of Michigan. She then went on to Medical School where she is now in her 3rd year, and is also in the process of obtaining her Doctorate in Nursing Practice through Chamberlin University. She has authored the NET Study Guide, as well a several books on subjects of Math, ECG/EKG and Phlebotomy. She holds a patent on an Air Filter through the U.S. Patent Office.