Volume 15 - Issue 6 - June, 2007

The Ten-Minute Interview with: Martine Kinman, RN, RCIS

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Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?

I wanted to work in a critical care environment, and as an LPN, options were limited. The cath lab was as close as I could get to doing critical care. I started in the invasive vascular part of the lab, and when I returned from working one year in open heart surgery, I worked in the electrophysiology lab. I left the cath lab environment for a second time to be a pacemaker nurse for a cardiology group, and returned a year later to be the same cath lab's clinical educator.

Can you describe your role in the cath lab?



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My Shoes, Your Shoes: Whose Shoes?

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In the Patient’s Shoes

I remember how upsetting it was for me when I got triaged and still had to wait for several more hours to be seen by a doctor. When I was a patient (and everybody knows nurses and doctors make the worst patients), I wanted help the minute I was sick enough to come to the emergency department. I wanted help then, not later. I would sometimes become tearful, ugly, mad and say things that weren’t nice, just like some of my previous patients. After this experience, I now try hard to remember how I felt or what I might have done so I can better help patients du



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