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Sculpting Nurse Practitioner Directed Heart Failure Clinics To Maximize Patient Outcomes
Holder, Dena-Marie Holder, Dena-Marie
Holder, Dena-Marie
Holder, Dena-Marie
Title
Sculpting Nurse Practitioner Directed Heart Failure Clinics To Maximize Patient Outcomes
Date
2021-05-01
Subject
Congestive Heart Failure
elderly
heart failure clinics
home-bound
re-hospitalization
telehealth
elderly
heart failure clinics
home-bound
re-hospitalization
telehealth
Material type
Collections
Abstract
The purpose of this systematic review is to discuss progressive and innovative ways to facilitate the best evidence-based practices through establishment of a multi-disciplinary nurse practitioner directed program to manage heart failure patients; along with providing guidance to format existing HF clinics. This will focus on: -Establishing patient-centered interventions and outcomes. -Reduce re-hospitalization risk. -Providing a better understanding of HF disease process by: -Establishing medication adherence -Promoting self-care management and -Addressing depressions and anxiety By providing tools, such as the use of telehealth monitoring along with enrollment into a NP led HF clinic, these interventions will assist patients with added support to: -Understanding their HF disease process -Establish self-care management/ confidence -Make appropriate choices while being closely monitored -With the formation of these processes, it has been proven through numerous studies, that patients will receive a better quality of life.