A Cardiac Nurse is the individual who assists the Cardiac Professional in his work. He or she use to continuously monitor and shows the cardiac rhythm and sends the electrocardiogram (EKG) tracing to a main monitor in the nursing station. He commonly used in monitoring in the emergency rooms and critical care areas, and allows for continual observation of several patients. Through the continuous cardiac monitoring he allows for prompt identification and initiation of treatment for cardiac arrhythmias and other conditions.

Here, in this article, I am going to focus on the various questions and their most probable answers from which you will be encountered with while facing the interview of a Cardiac Nurse.

1. What do you mean by an Analgesic?
Sir, it is a drug that reduces pain or pain reliever without reducing consciousness. There are three main categories of analgesic: Opioid Analgesics, Nonopioid Analgesics and Adjuvant Analgesics.

2. What do you mean by the Cardiac Catheterization?
Sir, the Cardiac Catheterization also called heart catheterization is a diagnostic procedure which does a comprehensive examination of how the heart and its blood vessels function. One or more catheters are inserted through a peripheral blood vessel in the arm i.e. antecubital artery or vein or leg i.e. femoral artery or vein with x-ray guidance. This procedure gathers information such as adequacy of blood supply through the coronary arteries, blood pressures and blood flow throughout chambers of the heart, collection of blood samples and x rays of the heart’s ventricles or arteries.

3. What do you mean by the Cardiac Monitor?
Sir, it is a device that shows the heart’s electrical activity as a wave pattern on a monitor. It is a bedside monitor. Continuous monitoring is useful for observation of postoperative patients, patients with severe electrolyte imbalances and other unstable patients.

4. What are the duties performed by the Cardiac Nurse?
Well sir, Cardiac Nurse performs the duties of taking care of the post operative surgical instruments. He/she takes care of the stress test evaluations and Cardiac Monitoring. He/she also performs duties in the Health Assessments and Vascular Monitoring.

5. Finally, what do you mean by Cardiomyopathy?
Sir, Cardiomyopathy is a heart muscle disease which occurs after the failing and weakening of the function of the myocardium i.e. the actual heart muscle. It is an abnormal heart condition in which the heart is dilated i.e. having the poor pumping power, preventive i.e. impaired capability of the heart to fill, and hypertrophic means enlarged heart.

Now you are capable enough to face the interview of a Cardiac Nurse.