A Nurse Is Looking to Improve the Care of Women

A nurse is looking to improve the care of women presenting to the emergency department (ED) with atypical symptoms of a heart attack. The nurse finds that the average door-to-balloon time-the interval starts with the patient's arrival in the emergency department, and ends when a catheter guidewire crosses the culprit lesion in the cardiac catheter lab-in their hospital is 64 minutes with the longest time being 84 minutes. How does the nurse proceed?

A) No need to address this-the average door-to-balloon time is well within the desired guidelines.
B) Perform a hospital and ED assessment to see where these patients are being held up.
C) Mandate EKGs for every patient who comes into the emergency room.
D) Create a separate wing of the ED especially for suspected cardiac patients.