Referral letter · Nursing
Refer Mr Kowalski to cardiac rehabilitation
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Task: Using the information given in the case notes, write a letter of referral to Ms Fiona Gallagher, Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse, requesting that Mr Darren Kowalski be enrolled in the cardiac rehabilitation programme. Address the letter to Ms Fiona Gallagher, Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse, Cardiac Rehabilitation Service, Westbury Community Hospital, 12 Orchard Road, Westbury.
CASE NOTES5 OCTOBER 2026
Assume that today's date is 5 October 2026. You are a staff nurse on a Coronary Care Unit. Mr Kowalski goes home today after an inferior myocardial infarction.
- Patient name
- Mr Darren Kowalski
- DOB
- 14 February 1972 (54 years)
- Address
- 27 Hawthorn Close, Westbury BA13 2LP
- Marital status
- Married (wife Karen, 52)
Social history
- Lives with wife (school receptionist), two-storey house
- Son (24) in the Army in Germany
- Daughter (20) at university in Leeds
- Smoker 20/day since age 16 (approx. 38 pack-years)