What we do
The main support you can expect from both teams within the Community Cardiac Specialist Nurse Service includes:
- Ensuring you and your family have a good understanding of your diagnosis, events leading up to admission, any interventions, and any future planned interventions.
- Answering any queries regarding hospital admissions.
- Reviewing cardiac medication, initiate new cardiac medication and adjust dose up or down as appropriate.
- Provide education around your condition, medications and support self management.
- Introducing/reinforcing risk factor management and exploring any misconceptions.
- Assessing anxiety and depression levels and offering psychological support. We can also referral to psychology if required.
- Measuring blood pressure, pulse, waist & BMI.
- Reviewing signs and symptoms.
- Reviewing future management including blood tests.
- Referring for ECG or other tests if required.
- Examining lifestyle, goal/agenda setting, supporting health behavior change, offering encouragement to commence as appropriate walking programme tailored to your individual needs.
- Smoking cessation, healthy balanced diet and alcohol intake reviewed and if necessary appropriate advice/support given.
- Referral to other services as required.
