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written by Chico David RN from allnurses.com

I’ve stayed broadly in one branch of nursing – cardiac rehabilitation – for almost my whole career. But I’ve managed to find variety by taking on different roles during that time. I’ve worked inpatient and outpatient, I’ve managed the department for a while. Now I’m working per diem and am sort of the all around pinch hitter for the department and related areas.

But the very best period of my working life was when part of my job description was “cardiac liaison nurse”. The bulk of my time in that job was spent in providing the pre- and post-op education for cardiac surgery patients. But the plum was that I would go into the OR a few times during each case and come out to give the family a quick update on how things were going.

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