Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG):
- Incentive spirometer to keep your lungs healthy (education and instruction)
- Care of your incisions
- Weight, symptoms, activity, and diet logs
- Saving energy and easier breathing tips
- Nutrition tips (heart-healthy nutrition education)
- Individualized care path (CABG recommendations for nursing, including goals, orders/intervention)
- Medications for your heart (education regarding beta blockers, diuretics, ace inhibitors, cholesterol-lowering medications, blood thinners and antiplatelet drugs, antiarrhythmics, and vasodilators)
- And more!
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF):
- Individualized care path recommendations: nursing (to include goals, orders/intervention)
- Taking your pulse (what it is, why check your pulse, and how to take)
- Weight and blood pressure tracking
- Saving energy and easier breathing tips
- Breathing exercises
Hypertension:
- How to take your blood pressure (what it is, how to take your blood pressure, how to record blood pressure)
- Nutritional guides (eating easy and eating right)