With more nurses caring for patients with heart failure and making decisions that are often complex, there is a clear need for those nurses to have access to good quality clinical information and guidance. This book is designed to be a practical, 'one-stop', handbook for the practitioner, ...
Heart Failure Nursing # 3 Heart failure Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is unable to pump an adequate amount of blood to meet the demand of the body’s metabolic needs‚ which leads to decreased cardiac output‚ increased preload and after load (Story‚ 2015). Approxim...
Following a thorough assessment, anursing diagnosisis formulated to specifically address the challenges associated with heart failure based on the nurse’s clinical judgement and understanding of the patient’s unique health condition. While nursing diagnoses serve as a framework fororganizingcare, their ...
heart failure tended to be a-typical in elderly patients.Symptoms including cough,sputum,increased heart rate and mental disorder were frequent, and a substantial proportion of patients had pulmonary congestion and edema.Conclusions Prevention and specific nursing measures should be aggressively taken ...
Nurses provide most of home health services for patients with heart failure, and yet there are no evidence-based practice guidelines developed for home health nurses.The purpose of this article was to review the challenges and solutions for adapting generally available HF clinical practice guidelines ...
p pBackground/p pHeart failure is likely to be particularly prevalent in the nursing home population, but reliable data about the prevalence of heart failure in nursing homes are lacking. Therefore the aims of this study are to investigate (a) the prevalence and management of heart failure in...
heart failurenursing diagnosisOBJECTIVE To investigate the association of nursing diagnoses (NDs) identified for patients with heart failure (HF) based on their hemodynamic profiles. METHOD Analytical, cross-sectional study conducted in the emergency room of a public hospital in a large cardiology ...
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart isn’t pumping the way it should be pumping. Our body depends on the pumping mechanism of the heart to deliver oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body cells. When the heart is weakened and can’t supply the cells with enough blood, the...
Identification of older patients with heart failure who may be candidates for hospice care: development of a simple four-item risk score. Rich. (2008) Identification of Older Patients with Heart Failure Who May Be Candidates for Hospice Care: Development of a Simple Four-Item Risk Score. ......
Self-care and quality of life in patients with advanced heart failure: the effect of a supportive educational intervention. Objective: The goal of this study was to determine the effects of a supportive educational nursing intervention on self-care abilities, self-care behavior,... T Jaarsma,R ...