Cardiac care
Sample Study Days
- Pharmacological management of heart failure
- The nurse's role in caring for people with heart failure in a primary and/or secondary setting
- Implications of palliative care for patients with heart failure
- ECG
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Hypertension Management
For information on study days please contact Carie Taylor on 01904 321310 or email carie.taylor@york.ac.uk
Modules
We offer modules designed to help clinicians and managers meet the standards of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease and implement National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines. They are delivered by multi-professional teams with access to clinical experts and researchers. There is an emphasis on problem-based learning.
Please ask the module leader, Ros Brownlow on 01904 321398 or email ros.brownlow@york.ac.uk, for guidance if you are unsure whether these programmes meet the needs of your professional practice.
Currently running
Research
The British Heart Foundation Care and Education research group focuses on improving the quality of rehabilitation treatment for cardiac patients. This includes designing and evaluating rehabilitation methods for people with heart problems. It focuses on the biopsychosocial understanding of chronic illness.
Where current outcome measures are not adequate the Group has developed new measures to support its research, such as a Congenital Heart Disease Quality of Life questionnaire (ConQol) for children with congenital heart disease between the ages of 7 and 16, and a Total Activity Masure (TAM), a questionnaire to capture activity levels and the extent of sedentary behaviour, suitable for the wide range of age and disability.
