Heart Surgery is Less Scary With Home Nurses By Your Side
Heal stress-free in the comfort of your home after surgery with hospital-level RN care, available as needed.
Cardiac Conditions We Care For
- Monitor vital signs, oxygenation, and cardiac rhythm patterns with parameters for reporting deviations
- Provide sternal precautions education and assistance with safe movement techniques
- Manage pain while monitoring for cardiac and respiratory complications and encouraging movement as much as tolerated
- Monitor vitals and assess cardiac status as compared to baseline
- Perform daily driveline site care and infection monitoring protocol
- Teach patient/caregiver LVAD management including alarm troubleshooting and power source changes
- Monitor for complications including bleeding, thrombosis, and device malfunction
- Implement complex immunosuppression medication regimen with strict schedule adherence and provide ongoing education and support
- Monitor vitals and assess incision sites for signs or symptoms of infection
- Monitor for signs of organ rejection (fatigue, shortness of breath, fever, weight gain)
- Teach comprehensive infection prevention techniques for immunocompromised states and encourage the use of incentive spirometer
- Assess vitals and lung and heart sounds and monitor for changes from baseline
- Coordinate daily weight monitoring with fluid restriction and diuretic management- alert physicians as needed with changes
- Implement energy conservation techniques with planned rest periods
- Teach symptom monitoring and management with clear parameters for medical intervention
- Provide progressive cardiac rehabilitation with individualized exercise protocol
- Monitor incision sites (chest, leg) for healing and infection prevention
- Implement cardiac risk factor modification education and lifestyle adjustments
- Administer and educate on anticoagulation/antiplatelet therapy regimen
- Monitor for post-surgical cardiac complications (arrhythmias, tamponade, ischemia)
- Teach gradual activity progression while monitoring cardiac response to exertion
- Assess vials and listen to all heart sounds Monitor for signs of valve dysfunction (murmurs, irregular heart sounds, heart failure symptoms)
- Implement anticoagulation protocol if mechanical valve with INR monitoring
- Teach the importance of prophylactic antibiotics for procedures when indicated
- Provide chest tube management and drainage monitoring if present
- Teach and assist with respiratory exercises (incentive spirometry, deep breathing)
- Monitor for respiratory complications (pneumonia, atelectasis, pleural effusion) and encourage ambulation as tolerated
- Implement comprehensive medication management (antihypertensives, lipid-lowering, antiplatelet)
- Coordinate cardiac diet and exercise program adherence
- Teach angina management and differentiation between stable and unstable symptoms
“Jack [our Navi Nurse] was awesome! He really got us set up with everything we needed at home and helped us feel so much less anxious about caring for my dad.“
“I would’ve had no idea how to answer all those questions they were asking, or known what questions to ask them [at the doctor’s appointment]. The Navi Nurse had so much info to give and it made things go much smoother.“
“[When I got home from the hospital], I probably would have just gone up to bed not feeling well… and I would have waited for the medication because my husband had to go back to work. Whereas having someone there to help call and….especially the cardiologists. Saying the right things so that I was able to get in quickly and not have to wait… That was helpful.”
“I traveled to Mayo Clinic for an urgent open heart surgery… I was at my wits end [trying to prepare, when] a very calming and compassionate angel… from Navi Nurses [returned my call and] explained in detail the surgery… what to expect for recovery… I had found the team I wanted. I cannot ever express… their kindness, caring and professional care. The positive outcome of my surgery absolutely would have been very different had I not found them!”
“[Navi Nurses sent] an excellent nurse. He works quickly, quietly, and is very efficient. He anticipated my needs without me having to tell him He’s just very very good.”
Get Back to Life Sooner After Heart Surgery
Nurse-Founded,
Nurse-Led
Jasmine Bhatti is the heart and soul behind the rapidly growing, Phoenix-based Navi Nurses.
After caring for a family member and recognizing critical gaps in home nursing, Jasmine became a registered nurse in 2011. She spent 8 years in practice at Mayo Clinic, before launching Navi Nurses in 2021.
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