Sculpting Nurse Practitioner Directed Heart Failure Clinics To Maximize Patient Outcomes

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.