Re do for week one

Introduction

Cardiology is the study that deals with diagnoses and treatment of blood vessels and heart disorders. Additionally, the field also involves treating and diagnosing electrophysiology, coronary artery disease, and congenital heart defects. A professional nurse who is a specialist in cardiology is referred to as a cardiologist (Khanna, 2016). A point to note is that a cardiologist is the same as a cardiac surgeon. The roles are so different since a cardiac surgeon is responsible for opening and executing heart surgery. But cardiologists only deal with treatment and diagnoses relating to the cardiovascular system. Therefore, a cardiologist's main role is to perform procedures such as inserting a pacemaker, angioplasty, catheterization, and carry out tests.

Dr. Norah professional history

In my case, I was delighted to interview Dr. Norah Hakone, who is a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Dr. Norah is a Bachelor of Science holder in nursing registered under the American Nurse Association (ANA). Additionally, the doctor has also acquired a master's in nursing and organizational leadership. Dr. Norah offers cardiology services at Mayo Clinic in the United States. The clinic has larger access to clients from Minnesota, Florida, and Arizona. However, the organization provides cardiology services from the entire United States population because it has a good reputation for quality care, particularly for heart complications.

Due to the broad knowledge, Dr. Norah has acquired his master's in nursing and organizational leadership; the doctor is one of the top management personnel in cardiologists. The facility has more than two hundred and forty cardiologist specialists from every ethnicity group to enhance cultural competence care. Under the cardiologist's department, the clinic performs medical diagnosis and concentrates more on heart failure, coronary artery, and valvular heart diseases. Dr. Norah Hakone concentrates more on heart failure and coronary arteries diseases due to broad experiences from many patients who seek medication from the clinic.

Clients the facility receives

Mayo Clinic is the most experienced and among the largest health organizations in the United States. In the cardiologist department, healthcare personnel works together to ensure quality care delivery. The clinic admits 200 and 270 clients who visit the facility for diagnoses and treatment of artery and heart-related diseases. The clinic is projecting to offer cardiology care services to more than a hundred patients this year.

The major clinic admits a lot of patients due to quality services, which are based on evidence-based practice. It is the reading healthcare facility on researches across the globe. Another contributing factor that leads to the admission of many cardiovascular challenged individuals in the facility is poor lifestyle among the majority of American people. Most American citizens embrace fast-moving food consumption, which has excessive salt, sugar, and fat content, leading to excessive cholesterol in the body. High cholesterol contributes so much to cardiovascular diseases.

Job description

Dr. Norah ensures constant consultation from other professional doctors, and through collaboration, the doctor can provide quality care to all patients. During the screening, Norah can advise patients on how to consume healthy dietary. Dr. Norah can also give examples of foods that the elderly in society should consume. The doctor also advises people to practice a healthy lifestyle such as body exercise such as walking and jogging while adhering to the doctor's medical prescription.

Professional fitness

Throughout my discussion with Dr. Norah, I realized that the main cause of cardiovascular diseases is a poor lifestyle that involves poor diet and lack of body exercises. The doctor is always keen on providing care based on evidence-based practice that has been proven beyond doubt as to the most effective technique of providing care to patients with cardiovascular diseases. When it involves making challenging decisions, the doctor usually consults with the other nurses' colleagues to avoid making mistakes that can lead to a medical lawsuit.

With the Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing and having a master's degree in nursing and organizational leadership, the doctor is fit to provide cultural competence care across the United States population. The Doctor is also registered as an advanced practice registered nurse by the American Association of nurse practitioners (AANP), APRNs, and American Nurses Credentialing Centre (AACN) (Windey & Cosme, 2017). Based on these certified bodies to nurses is a guarantee that Dr. Norah is fit to provide cardiovascular care to both children and adults in the United States and across the globe. The bodies allow nurses to act according to code and conduct governing the nursing profession; thus, nurses should not exercise racial discrimination and other medical malpractices.

Interview’s answers

When I ask Dr. Norah what made him choose the nursing profession, he smiled and responded that it resulted from many people suffering when the nursing profession was perceived as a women's career. People could suffer due to insufficient nurses' personnel across the globe. Dr. Norah becomes self-motivated when he was in high school and wanted to be a role model to men who were still personate about the nursing profession. According to the doctor providing coaching to more than fifty junior nurses to prepare them for future leadership positions at Mayo clinic is his greatest professional achievement.

When I asked about policymaking, the doctor stated that he had been a nursing organization member that advocates ANA to establish healthcare policies rather than non-health professional making policy for nurses to follow (Hughes, 2010). Additionally, the doctor indicated that if he changed anything, he would abolish the top-down approach in making policies and change it to a down-top approach where nurses will make more contributions to the policymaking process. Based on the doctor's opinion, he can rate healthcare performance at 7 out of 10. He indicated that although the United States care is one of the best globally, many patients still face racial discrimination while seeking medical care.

When I asked the doctor about his greatest fear when handling patients, he indicated that medical error is his greatest worry since it can lead to a lawsuit that can further perpetuate his licenses' revocation. The doctor stated that he evaluate success through the ability to offer quality to many patients as possible. When I posed the question about the most challenging aspect, he said that handling a patient in a culture that does not accept hospital medication is the most difficult aspect since they don't agree to take medicine. The doctor also indicated that there was a time he had to travel to another state once per week to offer cardiology services to an elder at his home. Dr. Norah also told me that if a patient becomes uncooperative, he usually involves guidance and counseling department at the hospital for guidance before resuming to administer medication to the patient.

Conclusion

In my opinion, I believe the interview as a nurse, too, will enable me to be proactive in developing strategies that ensure my involvement in establishing healthcare policies and providing quality care by going the extra mile beyond my call of duty. The interview also helped me understand that I have a bigger role in advising the public on the best lifestyle that prevents individuals from acquiring cardiovascular diseases.

References

Hughes, A. (2010). The challenge of contributing to policymaking in primary care: Nurses' gendered experiences and strategies. Sociology of Health & Illness, 32(7), 977-992. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01258.x

Khanna, N. (2016). Interventions for male erectile dysfunction: Any role for cardiologists? CSI: Cardiology Update 2015 (2 Volumes), 1567-1567. doi:10.5005/jp/books/12785_218

Windey, M., & Cosme, S. (2017). American Nurses Credentialing Center practice transition accreditation program update. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 33(4), 205-206. doi:10.1097/and.0000000000000367