EKGs 4U: Funny Name with a Serious Purpose

Three years ago, the concept of EKGs 4U was an idea, which has since come to fruition. Having assembled an awesome team, we set to work at monthly meetings brainstorming, discussing, planning, and doing. The following is the basis of our company:

Cardiac monitoring is a standard practice of the healthcare industry. Thus, knowledge of the cardiac conduction system and basic dysrhythmia is a necessity. For optimum patient care, healthcare workers caring for patients on cardiac monitors require expertise, which for some, is difficult to acquire and maintain.

EKG 4U, LLC, provides this expertise in a cost-effective, student-friendly manner with proven results.

Our aim is to be the leading provider of high-quality educational services in a variety of settings. We bring our classroom to your location. Our website is interactive and informative. We are a CEU provider with manuals available for purchase.

Beth Truex, RN, President and founder of EKGs 4U, LLC, is a graduate of Pasadena City College in California. She has 36 years of experience as a Critical Care Nurse, Charge Nurse of a 32-bed surgical unit, and Nurse manager of a telemetry unit. She served as the Administrative Supervisor for a 325-bed acute care medical center for 16 years. During that time, she developed the first Cardiac Rehabilitation program for Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Beth is a member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN); a Life Member of the American Red Cross; and a permanent member of Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society.

She received the Performance Excellence Award for facility-wide improvements of Electrocardiograms at Parkwest Medical Center.

AbdulRahman A. Al-Naimi, M.D., M.P.H. is the Founder of Royal Davy Incorporated (RDI), a physician executive services provider specializing in facility reimbursement, medical practice management, data management, quality performance and utilization review process, and strategic planning for physician’s interest in hospitalist services. RDI also provides high quality medical education and training related to clinical basic sciences, cardiac telemetry, clinical trial management, evidence-based medicine techniques, and literature appraisal methodology to health career students in the allied health professions. In addition the company has a special interest consulting service pertaining to critical cleaning validation techniques for the manufacturers of medical devices, pharmaceutical, and medical facility industry that require precision cleaning for pathogen control.

In addition to heading his own health care business, Dr. Al-Naimi serves as a part-time instructor to post secondary schools, colleges, and universities. He provides advisory services, professional development mentorship, and learning strategies for academic success to health career students, subjects of special interest to student-athletes, professional athletes, and the week-end athlete who are concerned with sports medicine education such as human performance, time management, life-style behavioral modification, lipid metabolism, fluids & electrolyte replacement, asthma control, cognitive function enrichment and rehabilitation, particularly post-traumatic brain injury. He has special interest in at risk populations, and people with controlled cancer, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and/or metabolic diseases who require rehabilitation.

Prior to starting Royal Davy, Dr. Al-Naimi was Founder and Executive Director of the Clear Lake Diabetes Center, the former Chief Medical Officer for the MKA Medical Group, P.A. in Houston Texas, and the former Director, Trauma Emergency Management, Upper Keys Health Care Taxing District, County of Monroe, Florida. He is a member to the adjunct-faculty for the Vascular Biology Working Group, the part-time faculty of Mott Community College, and appointed to the adjunct-faculty of the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.

He completed residency in Radiation Oncology, and inducted into the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Family Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine, and Occupational Medicine at the University of Texas Houston Medical School, Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health.

AbdulRahman A. Al-Naimi is a graduate of Michigan State University, College of Natural Sciences, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine where he participated in the MSU-CHM immunization program for children and adults from migrant farm camps, and at-risk populations. He later in his career worked for the Miami Bridge Project as a health educator and mentor to youth from at- risk populations including the migrant farm communities in Homestead, Florida. He received his Masters of Public Health degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. His master thesis dissertation research project involves using a descriptive epidemiological study NIDA data base, and used inferential statistical methods to study the relationships and associations between occupational income sources and use of illegal drugs, and alcohol consumption.

Dr. Al-Naimi has affiliations with several health care organizations. In August 2010 he partnered with EKGs 4U, LLC as the Director of Medical Education and Research with the primary responsibility to provide oversight to the development, direction and coordination of all medical education and training activities.