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Implementing Heart Failure Self-Management Teaching in a Primary Care Setting | Anderson, Gretchen | 2016 | The American Heart Association recommends that heart failure self-management education be provided at every healthcare visit. Despite this recommendation, self-management education is rarely done at primary care visits. Heart failure has become a common cause for hospitalizations in Medicare patient... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Heart Failure Self-Management Education: Does Timing Have an Impact on Readmission Rates? | Clayton, Anne | 2016 | Hospital readmissions are expensive but relatively common among heart failure (HF) patients. Studies have found that teaching patients self-management strategies to use at home, including early reporting of symptoms, can help to prevent hospital readmissions. Therefore, identifying and implementing ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |