Exploring Requirements of the ‘Would Be’ Expert Cardiac Care Nurse

Hamideh Dehghani, Khadijeh Nasiriani and Masoud Negahdary

Global Journal of Health Science, 2017, vol. 9, issue 5, 206

Abstract: BACKGROUND- Cardiovascular interventions have experienced extraordinary progress in the past decades. But it seems that preparation of cardiovascular nurses has not been in pace with the changes. This is while these nurses have a prominent role in the care and management of life-threatening diseases in these wards which can lead to reduced mortality. The present study aimed to explore the effective factors on training a cardiac care nurse.METHODS- This research is qualitative and applies inductive content analysis. Participants included 7 matrons and 50 nurses selected through purposive sampling method. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews and open questionnaires. Also, conventional approach to content analysis was used to analyze data.RESULTS- To have a qualified CCU nurse, the findings cover four main themes including specialist nurses (having appropriate personal and professional characteristics), acquiring comprehensive educational content (acquiring specialized cardiac, basic nursing, and general educational content), integrated educational approach (group education, individual education and special education methods), and administrative and organizational requirements (the necessity of recognizing the position of CCU nurses, allocation of material and intellectual benefits, educational and managerial monitoring of supervisors).CONCLUSION- Since cardiac care nurses play an important role in ensuring nursing care quality in cardiovascular wards and can improve the care delivered to the patients, it is necessary for nurses to have appropriate professional and personal qualities. Therefore, nurses should have training on general, basic nursing, and specialist cardiac content through integrated educational approach. At the same time, managerial and organizational requirements should be established to maintain and improve their competencies and capabilities.

Date: 2017
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/download/61470/34268 (application/pdf)
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/view/61470 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibn:gjhsjl:v:9:y:2017:i:5:p:206

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Global Journal of Health Science from Canadian Center of Science and Education Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Canadian Center of Science and Education ().