Journal of the American Heart Association

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Nursing is an essential part of our health care system workforce. Cardiovascular and stroke nursing represents one of the largest specialty areas requiring expert knowledge and clinical proficiency to ensure safety and quality patient outcomes. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print.

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Nursing Academic Stroke Strokes 75

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key results of the survey about nurse-led implantable cardiac monitor management practices in Italy. ABSTRACT Aims This project aimed to evaluate current practices of trained nurses performing implantable cardiac monitor (ICM) implantations and remote follow-ups in Italy, assessing hospital protocols and nurses' perceptions.

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Nursing Hospital Patient Care Article 72

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This study explores the factors contributing to the occurrence of delirium following cardiac surgery and devises nursing strategies rooted in behavior change theory.

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Nursing Risk Factors Research 100

European Journal of Heart Failure

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The clinical role and educational preparation of heart failure nurses across Europe. HF, heart failure; HFN, heart failure nurse; MDT, multidisciplinary team. Aims To describe the clinical practice and educational preparation of heart failure (HF) nurses across Europe and determine the key differences between countries.

Nursing 75

Nursing Heart Failure Education Outpatient 75

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MAY 15, 2024

Records from nearly 30,000 nursing home residents indicate that blood pressure medications more than double the risk of life-threatening bone fractures, according to Rutgers Health research.

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Blood Pressure Nursing Research 78

Heart Sisters

DECEMBER 8, 2024

"When Connie Jorsvik was a cardiac nurse, it always seemed like more women than men were admitted to her hospital after Christmas. Many of these women had been experiencing cardiac symptoms for days - and even weeks.

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Nursing Hospital Heart Disease 89

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 23, 2025

The drivers behind burnout in cardiovascular nursing require country- and systemwide interventions unique to the speciality, according to a statement published Dec. 18 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Patients receiving a nursing intervention had significantly better response rates, improvements in anxiety and depression scores, and significantly higher patient satisfaction when compared with the conventional care group.

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Nursing Hypertension Outcomes 64

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital-Plano in Texas cut times of cardiogenic shock diagnosis in half after implementing a quality improvement project that included nurse education and an electronic shock team alert, according to a study published Dec. 1 in Critical Care Nurse.

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Cardiogenic Shock Nursing Education Critical Care 52

HCPLive

MAY 10, 2024

Providers in inflammatory diseases discuss the instrumental role nurses and support staff play in educating patients on adalimumab biosimilars.

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Nursing Education 52

Med Page Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Rapper Snoop Dogg's 24-year-old daughter, Cori Broadus, suffered a "severe" stroke. People) A Justice Department report blamed "cascading failures of leadership.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes 97

Heart Sisters

APRIL 14, 2024

Can we do a better job teaching medical and nursing students about women’s unique cardiac issues? The answer might be in these nine teaching modules!

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Heart Disease Nursing Education 130

The British Journal of Cardiology

APRIL 2, 2025

Community services were primarily led by a HF specialist nurse (HFSN), with a median of 1.25 cardiology consultants with HF training, and a variety of other nurses and support workers. Eighty-five responses describing community HF services were received.

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Heart Failure Preserved Ejection Fraction Nursing Pharmacology 40

NEJM Journal Watch - Cardiology

MAY 14, 2024

Within 30 days of antihypertensive medication initiation, the rate of fracture was more than twice as high in initiators than in noninitiators.

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Nursing 73

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

JANUARY 30, 2025

This study investigates the impact of nursing interventions, guided by behavior change theory, on the recovery of cardiac function and quality of life in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonar.

Quality of Life 52

Quality of Life Cardiac Function Nursing Research 52

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

AUGUST 19, 2024

Nurses play a key role in helping patients manage emotional and social health challenges, or psychosocial health, after a stroke, and improved screening and assessment for psychosocial needs are essential to provide optimal patient care.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Patient Care 45

Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These gaps may undermine patient safety.Research Question:What are the nursing practices and perspectives regarding management of EVDs and LDs?Methods/Approach:A reported roles as Neuroscience ICU nurses, and 39.2% reported roles as Neuroscience ICU nurses, and 39.2% managed an EVD at least 75% of the time.

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Nursing ICU Outcomes Circulation 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background and Issue:Shared governance (SG) is an organized forum where bedside nurses are engaged in decision-making about professional practice, QI, and research to improve patient outcomes. Nursing engagement in SG has been linked to promoting improved nursing and patient outcomes.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Education 40

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 20, 2025

As a nurse working in a neurocritical care, I witnessed the sudden and devastating effects of stroke on survivors and their caregivers.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes 100

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The summit was designed to cater to a diverse audience, including cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac anesthesiologists, CT residents, perfusionists, and ICU and OR nurses.

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Aortic Cardiothoracic ICU Nursing 52

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Stroke center designation generally specifies required education for nurses. Our system provides stroke education to hundreds of nurses annually. Nurses received immediate feedback. We were able to track attendance, graph results, and provide live feedback and immediate test results to all nurses.

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Education Nursing Technology Stroke 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

A virtual neurologist rounded on all patient consults using video camera technology and a nurse delegate at the bedside. Beginning in April of 2024 the nurse delegate identified patients with an admission diagnosis of stroke and checked for presence of the ischemic stroke orderset prior to virtual rounds.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Document 40

Conquering CHD

JANUARY 17, 2025

Kayla and Misael sat outside our Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) facing a devastating diagnosis, when, like a scene from a movie, a nurse ran out to tell them they had found a heart donor. Numerous doctors, nurses, technicians and other specialists provided the clinical care that saved Zane and Zekes lives.

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Heart Transplant Transplant Open-Heart Surgery Nursing 98

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

The purpose of this study is to determine if consistent nurse-led stroke alert activation improves door to needle (DTN) times, which frequently results in better patient outcomes.Method:The method applied was a retrospective review of stroke alert records to evaluate the efficacy of different activation models.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background:A post-pandemic culture without interdisciplinary rounds has led to a lack of communication between providers and nurses. NN developed a protocol for interdisciplinary rounds and communicated this with nursing, providers, and unit secretaries. NN educated nurses and providers about the evidence-based benefits of team rounds.

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Nursing Education Hospital Stroke 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, not all institutions can staff stroke-trained nurses 24/7. To address increasing after-hours DTP times, radiology staff nurses designed and implemented an institution-specific, comprehensive educational stroke training program for all night shift ED nurses.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Education 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:Patients receiving care from stroke specialized nurses have better outcomes. In 2021, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) published updates to the Comprehensive Nursing Care Scientific Statements providing new evidence and best nursing practices in stroke care.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Best Practices 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:Stroke nursing education is a requirement for Stroke Center designation. We assessed nurses’ performance during the educational process. Lectures were interactive with multiple-choice questions, polling and trivia, and allowed nurses to engage and ask questions. We used a zoom platform to provide stroke education.

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Nursing Education Hospital Stroke 40

Med Page Today

JUNE 15, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes 69

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Despite this, most educational resources are focused on stroke-specific units rather than on all inpatient nursing areas. Stroke unit nurses also completed a fourth puzzle focused on patient education. The Escape Room consisted of three puzzles for non-stroke units and an additional puzzle for stroke units. on non-stroke units.

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Nursing Education Innovation Stroke 40

Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In fact, I've resuscitated thousands, and run countless codes in 30-plus years as an emergency medicine nurse and doctor. (MedPage Today) -- I'd seen a 78-year-old in cardiac arrest before. I'm trained to take charge, make the most of staffing.

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Cardiac Arrest Nursing 106

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

JANUARY 1, 2025

Yet, it is a valuable participatory research design that can help improve health outcomes and be applied in nursing research. Traditionally, it was used as a quality improvement technique.

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Chronic Disease Research Nursing Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To address this, Rapid Response Team (RRT) nurses have been empowered to lead the Inpatient Stroke Alert process to improve response time.Methods:Beginning in 2016, stroke program leadership in conjunction with frontline RRT nurses worked together to improve the Inpatient Stroke Alert response. minutes, n=47) in 2023.

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Nursing Hospital Stroke Strokes 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In a large healthcare system, multiple sites received corrective action findings from regulatory agencies for missed nursing assessments. The task force led the development and implementation of a single EHR location to document nursing assessments. The EHR was evaluated for component location and other areas in need of optimization.

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Stroke Journal

AUGUST 19, 2024

Care should be comprehensive and interdisciplinary. Enhanced screening, assessment, supportive services, and education are vital to ensure that patients receive the necessary treatment and care.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Quality of Life 76

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Thus, the evolution a Rapid Response Team to a Nurse Responder Team. The median door to needle time before the nurse responder team was 90 minutes and after the nurse responder team the median was 52.5. Training consisted of on-line learning management system courses, preceptorship, and simulation training.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Hospital 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Time is of the essence - this is one phrase every emergency department (ED) nurse knows. The development and implementation of the Flow and Resuscitation (Resus) registered nurse (RN) roles supports our goal of getting the patient to the right place at the right time. The Flow nurse was made effective throughout the network in 2023.

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Nursing RN Stroke Strokes 40