Cardiac Care Nurse Service

Our Cardiac Care Nurse will assist clients to:

• Facilitate the assessment and management of people with cardiac conditions;
• Empower people to initiate and maintain lifestyle changes;
• Assist at-risk patients into secondary and tertiary services; and
• Provide comprehensive rehabilitation services following a cardiac event.

Our Cardiac Care Nurse will work alongside the Community Cardiologist and General Practice Teams, and collaborate with the MidCentral Health Cardiology Teams and the PHO Chronic Care Teams.

The main focus is to assist the client and their family to self-manage, whilst facilitating functional improvement and promoting secondary prevention.

Our Cardiac Care Nurse will contribute to the diagnosis, treatment and management of cardiovascular disease for clients and their families.

Help further prevention of cardiovascular events by empowering people including family and whanau to initiate and maintain lifestyle changes with a focus on a persons holistic understanding of their condition, symton management including triggers of exacerbation.

Provide support and education for those at risk of cardiovascular disease, with unstable cardiovascular disease, those living with cardiovascular disease and those recovering from interventions.

Provide support and follow-ups for patients, their family and whanau who suffer with heart failure.

Provide communication and co-ordination within the PHO based chronic care teams.

This service is FREE to all clients who meet the criteria!

Karen SUllivan - Cardiac Care Nurse

To access our Cardiac Care Nurse KAREN SULLIVAN please phone (06) 353 6385 alternatively by emailing karen@rangitaane.iwi.nz