job_description: Cardiac nurses are qualified to provide cardiac care to patients across the lifespan, which may include newborns with heart defects or elderly patients with advanced stage heart disease. They also provide a wide range of services, which may include:
• Managing hypertension, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias and other heart conditions
• Evaluating and monitoring heart devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators
• Performing a wide variety of cardiac tests, including stress tests, stress echocardiograms, exercise stress tests, PET/dipyridamole stress tests, and CT coronary angiograms
• Providing physical exams so as to diagnose chronic and acute cardiac diseases
• Interpreting laboratory results or cardiac tests
• Prescribing and managing cardiac medications and other therapies
• Educating patients on health maintenance and disease prevention