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Cardiograph Nursing Assistant Job Description
A nursing assistant job description for someone who is working in the cardiograph department is not all that different from any other. However it will be a bit more specific to the certain department which you work within. The cardiograph department care for those people who have problems with their blood circulation and with their heart. Cardiograph is one of the few departments where people can be inpatients and outpatients. As a nursing assistant you will be need to help prepare patients who are having a electrocardiogram (ECG) and for other tests which will include exercises to measure their heart functions. You will need to be able to answer any questions about the tests which the patient may have. You should be able to reassure patients and help them to be at ease. You may be asked on occasion to overview a patient who is having twenty four hour blood pressure tests. Another type of test you will need to know about, as you will be preparing patients for it and answering any questions they may have about it, is echocardiograms.