ABSTRACT

In this text, Fiona Timmins integrates the findings of recent nursing research with key aspects of the nurse's role. She provides an evidence-based rationale for the best ways of improving cardiac care (in general and for specific conditions), describes important nursing initiatives to reduce the risk factors and presents a needs-based approach to patient education. Concerned with the need to bridge the current research-practice gap in coronary care, she knows how nurses can make the best use of available research and describes the advances that are being made in nurse-led services in this area.

Contemporary Issues in Coronary Care Nursing
offers a non-medical approach to coronary care and is informed throughout by the latest nursing theory and research.

chapter 1|17 pages

Nursing theory in coronary care

chapter 2|17 pages

Planning nursing care

chapter 3|26 pages

Care plans for specific cardiac conditions

chapter 5|20 pages

Patient education in coronary care

chapter 6|15 pages

Research utilisation in coronary care

chapter 7|11 pages

Nurse-led services in coronary care