I used the MLA citation format for this assignment because as far as I could tell most of the authors used MLA format for their citations.

Bibliography

"Atrial Fibrillation." Nursing Standard 28(27) (2014): 18. Article. 5 April 2014.

Boateng, Stephen. "Tachycardia." Disease-a-Month 59.3 (2013): 74(9). Peer Reviewed Article. 5 April 2014.

Brembilla-Perrot, Beatrice, et al. "Is Ablation of Atrial Flutter Always Safe?" Oacing and Clinical Electophysiology 9 (2012): 1061-1066. Article. 5 April 2014.

Chernecky, Cynthia, et al. Saunders Nursing Survival Guide: ECGs & the Heart. Second Edition. St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier, 2006. 148-229. Chapters. 5 April 2013.

Gassanov, Natig, et al. "Atrial Fibrillation." Cardiology Research and Practice (2013): 1-2. Article. 5 April 2014.

Hoffmayer, K S and N Goldschlager. "Bradycardia?" Journal fo Electrocardiology 43.3 (2010): 333-335. Peer Reviewd Article. 5 April 2014.

Pabon, Guillermo Mora and John A Ramirez. "Atrial Flutter a manifestation of Cardiac Tamponade." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 35.4 (2012): e87-e89. Peer reviewed Article. 5 April 2014.

Reiffel, James. "Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation: Treatment Options and Advances." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 32.8 (2009): 1073-1084. Peer Reviewed Research Article. 5 April 2014.

I used the database for searchit for “Bradycardia?”.

This article talks about how bradycardias are slow irregular heart rates and how they can be harmful. A bradycardia is a wide net to capture all of the heart irregularities that cause the heart to have a slow rate. This bradycardias are specific slow dysrhythmias.

For Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation I used PedMed.

“Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation” talks about a treatment of AFib and some of the side effects. It also goes over how there are some other treatment options. It also explains what Atrial Fibrillation is about.

For “Is Ablation for Atrial Flutter Always Safe?” I used Cinahl.

This is about how Atrial Flutters are sometimes treated with Ablations. It is a little unclear about what an ablation is if you have no experience with ablations. It is best suited for people who have a little bit of nursing or cardiac knowledge. It also explains what this dysrhythmia is and how it can affect people, giving them symptoms or no symptoms.

PART TWO:

I found it a little hard to do this assignment this week. I was more interested in reading the articles than writing about them. I as I was reading I spent time writing down quotes that I may use in the paper. I found it best to work at the school to do this because I have a younger child in my house who was on spring break this week, had the child’s friend at my house most of the week, and had my birthday this week so I was preparing for family to come. I believe that I did my best on this assignment. I spent seven hours doing it while I was at school until 1 everyday. I wish I could have done more but I have an hour commute. I found it a little easier to do the research as rather than focusing on dysrhythmias as a blanket I did searches for some of the dysrhythmia “umbrellas” I found. For example, I used “atrial fibrillation,” “Atrial Flutter,” “Bradycardia,” and “Tachycardia.” Using these terms I found it much easier to do the research because I wasn’t looking at as much in a short amount of time. I plan on getting the next assignment started and working on it at least two hours a day so I can be more thorough and begin to write the paper to a degree. I enjoyed the feeling of knowing that I can narrow it temporary in order to do research.

I used the MLA citation format for this assignment.