Twenty pocket-sized clinical references for cardiac nursing — cath lab, hemodynamics and mechanical support, the CVICU, and certification. Skim the tables before your shift, use the checklists live, keep the method.
Tables you can skim in the minutes before a shift
Methods that repeat — blood gases, rhythms, drips
Clear "call now" lines, not just what to watch
Print-ready PDF — instant download, yours to keep
Teaching reasoning, giving feedback, and handling the hard conversations — because the strong clinical nurse who just got handed an orientee deserves better than being told to figure it out. Graduated release, question-based teaching, a feedback structure that works when the news is not good, and templates for the orientee who is not progressing, the one who is unsafe, and the one who is drowning quietly.
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Each area is also sold as a $49 bundle — one print-ready PDF, five guides, against $60–$75 bought singly.
The whole shelf in one 124-page print-ready PDF — orientation through certification, bedside through discharge teaching. Every guide from all four areas.
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Your first 90 days in the cardiac catheterization lab
Recognition, localization, activation, and what follows
Pre-assessment, intra-procedure, recovery, and discharge
Devices, implant support, malfunction patterns, discharge teaching
Swan-Ganz, arterial lines, CVP, and reading the shock states
Receptors, agents, targets, and titration discipline
Impella, LVAD, RVAD, and ECMO — what to watch and when to escalate
VA and VV configurations, cannulation support, daily assessment, emergencies
From task competence to clinical judgment — a first-year roadmap
Modes, pressures, alarms, dyssynchrony, and extubation readiness
A five-step method, the anion gap, and twelve worked problems
A six-step method, fourteen annotated tracings, a twelve-case drill set
Weighted study schedule and fold-and-recall prompts for the CCRN
Teaching reasoning, giving feedback, and the hard conversations
Six editable plain-language discharge handouts
5 guides in one print-ready PDF. Bought separately these run $75.
5 guides in one print-ready PDF. Bought separately these run $75.
5 guides in one print-ready PDF. Bought separately these run $75.
5 guides in one print-ready PDF. Bought separately these run $60.
These are educational reference materials for licensed clinicians and students. They are not medical advice, not a protocol, and not a substitute for your facility's policies, physician orders, current drug references, or device manufacturer instructions for use. Always verify doses, settings, and parameters against your own approved sources.
Floor nurses crossing into the cath lab, new grads in the CVICU, experienced nurses picking up a balloon pump or an ECMO circuit for the first time, preceptors, and anyone sitting the CCRN or CSC. The certification guides are independent study aids, not affiliated with or endorsed by AACN.
Every guide leads with tables you can read in the minutes before report — what the number means, what changes it, when to call.
Sedation workflow, post-op day one, ECMO circuit checks, IABP transport — built to be worked through at the bedside, not memorized.
Blood gases in five steps, rhythms in six, drips by receptor. Repeatable procedures give you the same answer under pressure that you'd get sitting down.