Cardiac Nursing Guide — Course Handbook

A track written for a different job

Our Cardiac Nursing track is not the medical curriculum delivered more slowly. The nursing role is continuous observation and safe execution, and the questions are different ones: is this rhythm change worth a call, is this infusion running correctly, does this access site look the way it did an hour ago.

The modules ask those questions, and this handbook answers them.

Case format for this track

Cases release observation charts rather than histories. Learners see a set of vital signs over six hours and decide whether to escalate — which is the actual decision a nurse makes, and one that no medical curriculum ever rehearses.

Module map

Rhythm monitoring and call criteria. Vasoactive and antiarrhythmic infusions with titration and warning signs. Antithrombotic administration and bleeding observation. Post-procedure care with access-site assessment. Heart failure observation and fluid balance. Chest pain assessment. Device patients. Rehabilitation and discharge education.

Escalation stated, not implied

Every module states what to escalate and how fast, in specific terms. Learners new to a unit consistently report this as the reason the track was worth taking — clinical judgement is what you build later, and explicit criteria are what keep patients safe meanwhile.

Enrolment

Cardiac and coronary care nursing staff, ICU nurses, nurse practitioners and cardiac technologists.

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