A nurse explains that cardiac rehabilitation lasts from the end of acute care to the return to home and beyond. What does this service include?
a. One-on-one individualized care
b. Focus on the patient rather than the family
c. Telemetry-monitored exercise
d. Rejection from the program for noncom-pliance
C
Cardiac rehabilitation programs are supervised by a team of experts who arrange for teleme-try-supervised exercise and other modalities, such as diet and medical protocol management. The focus is on the family, as well as the patient. Although some patients reject the program, they are rarely rejected by the rehabilitation center.
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