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Discharge Planning Considerations For Congestive Heart Failure: A Dnp Project, Jainarine Ramlochan
Discharge Planning Considerations For Congestive Heart Failure: A Dnp Project, Jainarine Ramlochan
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Abstract
Clinicians are challenged to prevent readmission of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). The purpose of this project was to: 1) prepare students to better understand the discharge process for patients with CHF; and 2) obtain the opinion of nurses that were involved in the discharge process in the presence of COVID-19 Pandemic. The Delta Care Program (DCP) was used to guide the project and may be a useful tool for discharge planning. An intervention on use of the DCP was delivered to students (N = 83). Findings indicated that student nurses felt confident in the application of …