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Nurse-led cardiac clinic educates and empowers Feilding patients for improved outcomes
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Nurse-led cardiac clinic educates and empowers Feilding patients for improved outcomes
Wednesday 6 November 2019, 12:00 AM

Tasha Morris from the College of Primary Health Care Nurses, NZNO
Practice nurse Tasha Morris discusses the benefits of the cardiac clinic run by Feilding Health Care, which offers accessible, closer-to-home management
The clinic is a free service for patients and has proved very popular
In June 2017, Feilding Health Care began a specialist nurse-led cardiac cli
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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