BCH offer Nursing as part of in-clinic Cardiac Rehab. BCH do not offer community nursing. Cardiac Health is an 8-week reablement program that assists people with heart conditions to recover and get back to normal activities sooner. It also provides information to reduce the chance of a further event.
The program focuses on:
• learning more about your heart condition and treatment
• getting back to your usual activities (e.g. work, driving)
• changing your lifestyle to improve your heart health
• managing your medicines
• stopping smoking
• knowing warning signs and what to do in an emergency.
The program is for people who have had:
• a heart attack
• bypass or stent surgery
• stable or unstable angina
• controlled heart failure
• valve replacement surgery
• other vascular or heart disease.
The 8 week program includes 2 exercise and 1 education session per week. The program is lead by the Cardiac Nurse & Exercise Physiologists with dietitians and counsellors