Women & Heart Disease

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As healthcare professionals, we understand the real truth behind cardiac disease...

... but with TV shows and movies always showing men having heart attacks, our female patients think it’s just a man’s disease.

They need your expertise…whether you specialize in cardiology or not!

That’s why we’ve created this free, downloadable infographic on heart disease in women. It puts the risk factors, statistics, and symptoms of a heart attack right at your fingers…

…so you can keep this information at the top of your mind or share with your female patients.





But there’s more! Life-saving information is just a click away and at no cost to you.

Cardiac expert Cheryl Herrmann, RN, MS, APN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC-CMC, shares invaluable knowledge from her decades as a critical care and cardiac nurse in this FREE video training: Heart Disease in Women: Lifesaving Insights from a Cardiac Clinician.

After watching this free, on-demand video training, you’ll...
  • Gain clinical insights to confidently educate your patients on modifiable risk factors specific to women
  • Empower female patients with knowledge on the often-missed heart attack signs that could save their lives
  • Be better prepared to support female patients in cardiac rehab care post-MI

Click here to watch this on-demand training today.
The 2021 Cardiovascular Certificate Course
The 2021 Cardiovascular Certificate Course

When you sign up for this self-paced, online course, you’ll be able to immediately apply hundreds of new concepts in your daily work — improving patient outcomes by your very next shift!

Cheryl Herrmann RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC

Cheryl Herrmann, RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC, has 40+years of nursing experience – 15 years as a bedside nurse in critical care and 25 + years as a cardiac clinical nurse specialist. In her career, she has assessed and managed cardiology, cardiovascular surgery and critical care patients from the prehospital setting as PHRN on the ambulance to patients in cardiac progressive and critical care units. As CNS, she helped develop the Rapid Response Team and Protocols at her institution and was chairman of the RRT committee to analyze and improve outcomes. One of the creative teaching methods to improve outcomes was being involved in biyearly "Preventing a Crisis" sessions for acute care nurses that utilized recent case studies to discern strategies to prevent the crisis. Cheryl has a passion for cardiac nursing and is an advocate for empowering nurses to become experts.

She is a popular presenter for national conferences including the American Association of Critical Care Nurses NTI. Cheryl has been honored with the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Circle of Excellence – Excellent Clinical Nurse Specialist Award.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cheryl Herrmann has employment relationships with Carle Health Greater Peoria and Liberty University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Cheryl Herrmann is a member of the Heart of Illinois AACN, the Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nurses, the National AACN, and the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.

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