Angela Kucia - Acute Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses

This edition first published 2010

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Acute Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses/edited by Angela M. Kucia, Tom Quinn.

p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-6361-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. HeartDiseasesNursing. I. Kucia, Angela M. II. Quinn, Tom, 1961[DNLM: 1. Heart Diseasesnursing. 2. Critical Care. WY 152.5 A189 2010]

RC674.A28 2010

616.120231dc22

2009006627

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

1 2010

Contributors

D. Barrett, RN, BA (Hons), PG Dip., PG Cert., is a Lecturer in Nursing in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, UK.

J.F. Beltrame, BSc, BMBS, PhD, FRACP, is Associate Professor and a National Heart Foundation Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide and a Senior Consultant Cardiologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lyell McEwin Health Service, Adelaide, South Australia.

L. Belz, RN, Grad. Dip. Health Sc., is the Charge Nurse of the Coronary Care Unit at Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

E. Birchmore, BN, MNP, Grad. Dip. Coronary Care, MRCNA, MACNP, is a Heart Failure Nurse Practitioner at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

P. Davidson, RN, BA, MEd, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Centre for Cardiovascular & Chronic Care, Curtin University of Technology and St Vincents Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales.

A. Day, RN (USA), RGN (UK), MSc, PGCE, BSc (Hons), is a Senior Lecturer in Emergency Nursing, and a member of the Applied Research Group on Pre-hospital, Emergency and Cardiovascular Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University, UK.

D. Evans, MNS, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer and Program Director for Higher Degrees by Research in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia in Adelaide, South Australia.

B. Greaney, RGN, PG Dip., PGCE, MA(Ed), is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Care Nursing, and a member of the Applied Research Group on Pre-hospital, Emergency and Cardiovascular Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University, UK.

P. Gregory, BSc (Hons), PGCE, Paramedic, is a Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Science, and a member of the Applied Research Group on Pre-hospital, Emergency and Cardiovascular Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, UK.

J.D. Horowitz, MBBS, BMedSci (Hons), PhD, FRACP, is Professor and Director of Cardiology at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.

L. Jesuthasan, MBBS, BMedSci, FRACP, is a Staff Specialist in Cardiology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

K. Mishra, MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), FRACP (Cardiology), is a Staff Specialist in Cardiology at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

C. Oldroyd, RGN, PGCE, RNT, Bsc (Hons), MSc, is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiac Nursing, and a member of the Applied Research Group on Pre-hospital, Emergency and Cardiovascular Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, UK.

C. Ryan, BN, MNSc, is an Emergency Nurse Practitioner at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

J. Smith, RN, BA (JUr), MHSc, is a Senior Project Officer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program with the National Heart Foundation of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia.

S.A. Unger, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, is a Staff Cardiologist and the Director of Nuclear Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth and Lyell McEwin Hospitals and as Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.

T. Wachtel, RN, MN, Grad. Cert. HD Nursing, MRCNA, is a Lecturer in Nursing and Clinical Coordinator in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Renmark Campus, South Australia.

R. Webster, RN, BSc (Hons), MSc, is a Senior Nurse for Education and Practice Development for the Cardio-Respiratory Directorate, University Hospitals of Leicester, UK.

P. Whiston, RN, Grad. Dip. Coronary Care, is a Clinical Practice Consultant in the Coronary Care Unit at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

B.F. Williams, NZRGON MHSc (Hons), is a Research Manager, Pacific Clinical Research Group (PCRG), Sydney, Australia.

C.J. Zeitz, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, OstJ, is Co-Director of Medicine and Emergency Clinical Services, and Director of Interventional Cardiology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, and Associate Professor of Rural and Indigenous Cardiovascular Health at the Spencer Gulf Rural Clinical School in Whyalla, South Australia.

As the editors of this book cogently remind us, cardiovascular disease touches the lives of virtually everyone. Nurses are invariably at the forefront, working in collaboration with doctors and other health professionals, in providing acute cardiac care, including prevention and rehabilitation, to patients and their families. They have a professional duty to ensure that the care they give is safe and of a high quality and is informed by the best evidence. This requires them keeping up to date with the rapid developments in science and technology, changes in health policy and planning and increased expectations of the profession and the public whom they serve: a major challenge to busy nurses working in cardiac care settings.