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The Use Of Motivational Interview Intervention In Discharge Teaching Of Patients With Heart Failure, Jason O'Brien

Jason O'Brien

It is widely recognized in healthcare that there are many different behavioral choices a patient can make that can have an impact on their health and disease management outcomes. One of the more prevalent diseases that requires consistent compliance is heart failure. The literature suggests that the different areas of management are often something the layperson in the home can have control over, provided they have the confidence and conviction to do so. There is a call for a new way of teaching these patients upon hospital discharge as the old way of lecturing instruction is not effective. It has …