Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Holistic cardiovascular nursing -- Nurses and self-assessment -- Cardiovascular assessment -- Nursing diagnoses -- Biobehavioral interventions -- Diagnostic testing -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- The person with coronary artey diseases risk factors -- The person with angina pectoris -- The person with myocardial infraction -- The person with heart failure and carcinogenic shock -- The person with valvular heart disease -- The person with cardiomyopathy or myocarditis -- The person with pericarditis,pericardial effusion,and cardiac tamponade -- The person with an articial cardiac pacemaker -- The person undergoing cardiac surgery -- The patients undergoing cardiac transprant surgery -- The person participating inpatint and outpatint cardiac rehabilitation -- Appendixes A Cardiovascular assessment tools -- B Dysrhythmias -- C Selected cardiovascular drugs -- D Defibrillation,cardioversion,and the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator -- E The p[ersonwith near death experience