Key result
Pacemaker nursing care centers on advocacy, device management, and complication prevention across indications.
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Design
Narrative review from a nursing perspective
Nurse-led advocacy in cardiac pacing warrants continued education; leaves open prospective trials on outcome impact.
In this article, we focus on the nurse's role as caregiver and patient advocate for individuals requiring cardiac pacing. The history of cardiac pacing, new trends, indications for pacing, pacemaker dysfunction and complications, types of pacing, and nursing considerations will be discussed.
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Boyle et al. (2000) studied this question. Nursing care for individuals requiring cardiac pacing centers on patient advocacy and caregiving, encompassing the management of pacing indications, device dysfunction, and complications.
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