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**What This Document Is**
This document is an outline for Jersey College Nursing School’s Medical Surgical Nursing I (NUR 201) course, specifically focusing on cardiac notes – Chapter 21. It provides a structured overview of the topics covered regarding the heart, its anatomy, function, and related hemodynamics.
**Why This Document Matters**
This outline is intended for students enrolled in NUR 201 as a roadmap for understanding the core concepts of cardiac physiology and pathology. It’s used during the course to organize study efforts and identify key areas of focus for lectures and assessments. It exists to provide a high-level structure for a complex subject.
**Common Limitations or Challenges**
This outline does *not* contain the detailed explanations, clinical applications, or practice questions needed for comprehensive exam preparation. It is a skeletal framework and requires the full chapter content to be truly useful.
**What This Document Provides**
This outline includes a breakdown of the following topics: the anatomy of the heart (endocardium, myocardium, epicardium, pericardium), heart chambers and their function (diastole, systole, PMI), coronary arteries and myocardial ischemia, the cardiac conduction system (SA & AV nodes, automaticity, excitability, conductivity), cardiac action potentials (phases 0-4), cardiac hemodynamics, and cardiac output (preload, afterload, contractility).
It *does not* include detailed discussions of specific cardiac diseases, nursing interventions, or pharmacological treatments. This preview only represents the organizational structure of the full chapter content.