Advanced rehabilitation nursing care of coronary angioplasty patients using self‐efficacy theory

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Abstract
The rapidly increasing numbers of patients who experience coronary angioplasty have not been widely studied concerning their rehabilitation, risk factor modification, health maintenance and role resumption Bandura's self‐efficacy theory serves as the framework of a study designed to explore the efficacy expectations for and behavioural performance of walking, following a diet, health maintenance, resumption of role and return to work in angioplasty patients Based in this study, assessment and intervention strategies used by cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist authors are described with a clinical example