Meaningful care is achieved through meaningful nursing To ensure best outcomes for patient care, the nurse and physician must do everything appropriately. Unfortunately, a longstanding legal axiom is becoming a reimbursement axiom: If you didnât document it (in the EHR), you didnât do it.
Sometimes heart murmurs or ECG changes need the evaluation of a cardiologist. Cardiologists help victims of heart disease return to a full and useful life and also counsel patients about the risks and prevention of heart disease.
A cardiologist must typically complete a three year residency program in internal medicine, and then obtain a fellowship in cardiology; this stage will take an additional two to three years to complete.187,199. Cardiologists may expect to work long hours, often over 40 hours per week, as people suffer serious heart incidents at any time, necessitating emergency calls to render care to patients.