Exam Resources

Focus: Risk stratification, intake assessment, clinical evaluation, and program guidelines.

• AACVPR Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Programs, 6th Edition (2021)
• AACVPR Position Statement: Core Competencies for Cardiac Rehabilitation/Secondary Prevention Professionals (2010 Update)
• ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (2019)
• ACCF/AHA Heart Failure Guideline (2017)
• AHA/AACVPR Scientific Statement: Core Components for Cardiac Rehabilitation / Secondary Prevention (2024 Update)
• ANCC Nursing Review and Resource Manual Cardiac Vascular Nursing, 4th Edition American Nurses Association (2015)
• CMS Federal Register
• Institute of Medicine: Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust (2011)

• AHA Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health
• AHA Nutrition Committee Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations (2006)
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025
• AND Position Statement: Interventions for the Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (2016)

• AHA/ACC/TOS Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (2013)
• ACSM Position Statement: Physical Activity Strategies for Weight Loss (2009)

• ACC/AHA Guideline for High Blood Pressure in Adults (2017)
• Treatment of Hypertension in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease (2016)
• AACVPR Performance Measure: Blood Pressure Control at Completion of CR (2018)
• Essential Hypertension: Definition and Etiology

• ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol (2018)

• ADA: Understanding A1C
• CDC: All About Your A1C
• ADA Position Statement: Psychosocial Care for People with Diabetes (2016)

• CDC Smoking and Tobacco Use Resources
• Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
• Smoking, Heart Disease, and Stroke
• E‑Cigarette or Vaping Lung Injury
• Smoking Cessation: Surgeon General Report (2020)

• AACVPR Performance Measure: Depression Improvement (2018)
• AHA Science Advisory: Depression and Coronary Heart Disease
• AHA Scientific Statement on Sexual Activity and Cardiovascular Disease (2012)
• JACC Review: Depression in Cardiovascular Disease
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM‑5), American Psychiatric Association (2013)
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Bourne (2020)
• Chronic Stress and Disease Risk
• Self‑Efficacy: The Exercise of Control, Bandura (1997)
• Shared Decision Making in Clinical Practice
• Changing for Good, Prochaska et al. (2007)
• The Handbook of Health Behavior Change, Riekert (2018)

• Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd Edition

• ACSM Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 11th Edition (2021)
• ACSM Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 7th Edition (2014)
• ACSM Clinical Exercise Physiology (2024)
• Clinical Exercise Physiology, Ehrman et al., 4th Edition (2019)
• Exercise Physiology: Theory and Application to Fitness and Performance, Powers & Howley (2021)
• Rapid Interpretation of EKGs, Dubin (2021)
• AHA ACLS Guidelines