The staff of Huntington Hospital’s dedicated Cardiac Services Unit includes a dynamic team of registered nurses involved in the delivery of both invasive and noninvasive cardiac testing.

The focus of the nurses in the Cardiac Services Unit is to provide patient-centered quality care in a safe environment. This includes ongoing communication with patient families in a collegial manner. Nurses in this unit are vital members of the health care team which provides a full spectrum of advanced cardiac diagnostic testing and interventional procedures to both inpatients and outpatients. In addition to preadmission interviewing and testing, patient assessment, cardiac monitoring, and the administration of medications, nurses assist cardiologists and electrophysiologists in a wide variety of procedures. These include cardiac catheterizations, pacemaker and intra-cardiac defibrillator (ICD) insertion, cardiac resynchronization, stress and transesophageal echocardiography, and tilt table studies. Nurses are also responsible for assessing patients post procedure.

The nursing staff of Cardiac Services is required to maintain certifications in basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ACLS) as well as North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (NS-LIJ HS) sedation credentialing.  In addition, many of the nurses also maintain cardiovascular and critical care nursing certifications. 

Huntington Hospital’s Cardiac Services Unit is open from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday. Coverage for the acute MI/ primary angioplasty program is 24 hours/7 days with nursing on call responsibilities.

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For more information contact
Nurse Manager of Cardiac Services, Jeff Weigers, RN, BSN, CNA
jweigers@hunthosp.org

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