In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.
Key Features
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Contains 15 practice-oriented topics including heart failure: priorities for transition to home; stroke update: focus on hospital management; new pharmacologic treatment for patients with cardiovascular disease; mechanical assist devices in the cardiac intensive care unit; caring for sexual and gender minorities with cardiovascular disease; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews of advances in cardiovascular nursing, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Author Information
Edited by Leslie Davis, MSN, RN, CS, ANP, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, NC
Hypertensive Emergencies: Implications for Nurses
Heart Failure: Priorities for Transition to Home
Dyslipidemia Update
Stroke: Hospital Nursing Management Within the First 24 Hours
Evaluation of Wide Complex Tachycardia
Updates and Advances in Cardiovascular Nursing: Peripheral Arterial Disease
Update on Valvular Heart Disease for Registered Nurses
Anticoagulation for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation
A Pharmacologic Update: New Treatments for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
A Primer on Pacemakers and Defibrillators for Nurses
Mechanical Circulatory Support Therapy in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Cardiovascular Disease in Women: An Update for Nurses
Caring for Sexual and Gender Minority Adults with Cardiovascular Disease
Pediatric Murmurs