According to the Florida Center for Nursing, the number of Florida nursing jobs is steadily on the rise, growing at about 5% per year. However, Florida, like most of the country, is experiencing an extreme shortage of qualified nurses. It is expected that over 8,000 new nursing jobs in Florida will be created for each of the coming years. Most of these Florida nursing jobs will be created in hospitals and home health agencies.
Cardiac nurses care for patients who have problems with their heart and other related systems. These problems include conditions such as unstable angina, cardiac dysrhythmias, congested heart failure, and myocardial infarctions. Cardiac nurses have specialized skills, and practice within a sub-specialty area of nursing. Unlike nurses who work in other specialties, cardiac nurses know how to monitor telemetry patients, and they have a working knowledge about advanced cardiac life support and IV cardiac medications. Cardiac nurses work in hospitals, clinics, and they work in variety of areas such as CCU, ICU, Cardiac Cath labs, operating rooms, and Cardiac rehab. Cardiac nurses also work as home health nurses, caring for patients who are recovery from cardiac procedures and surgery.