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A Nurse Led Heart Failure Education For Self-Care Symptom Monitoring And Management, Lynda Browning
A Nurse Led Heart Failure Education For Self-Care Symptom Monitoring And Management, Lynda Browning
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Nurse-led education heart failure education for symptom monitoring and management
Abstract
Problem Statement: Over six million adults in the United States have heart failure (CDC.gov,2020). According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), almost 20% of heart failure patients hospitalized are readmitted under 30 days (AHRQ, 2013). The American Heart Association (AHA) (2022) recommends a visual symptom tracking tool for self-care symptom monitoring to increase patient adherence and reduce readmissions. Despite this recommendation, the AHA tool for symptom monitoring is not fully incorporated into the discharge of every heart failure patient often because of nursing management …