5 Cardiac Nursing Guides — CVICU Core Bundle | 30-Page PDF | 2026–27 Edition

Post-op day one, vents, ABGs, CRRT, and the new-grad workbook. 5 guides, 30 pages, one PDF — 2026–27 Edition.

What's inside:

• 05 Post-Op Open Heart: Day One — Receiving and managing the fresh cardiac surgery patient (6 pp)

• 09 CVICU New Grad Onboarding Workbook — From task competence to clinical judgment in the cardiothoracic ICU (6 pp)

• 11 Ventilator Settings Decoder — Modes, pressures, alarms, dyssynchrony, and extubation readiness (6 pp)

• 12 ABG / VBG Interpretation Worksheet — A five-step method, the anion gap, and twelve worked problems (6 pp)

• 14 CRRT Quick Reference — Modalities, prescriptions, citrate, alarms, and filter life (5 pp)

Every guide is built the same way: the numbers you're expected to interpret, the tables you'll actually reach for, caution boxes where the trap is, and a floor pearl from someone who's worked the unit. Built for the pocket and the break room — print it at US Letter or search it on your phone.

Bought separately these 5 guides run $75. The bundle is $49.

Part of Cardiac Nurse Playbooks. Instant PDF download, yours to keep.

Educational reference material for licensed clinicians and students. Not medical advice, not a protocol, and not a substitute for your facility's policies, physician orders, or device manufacturer instructions for use. Where these guides and your unit policy disagree, your unit policy wins.