The main aim of every study is to find solutions to a certain problem in the society. It is through the understanding of certain challenges in the nursing profession and society in general that long lasting solutions can be realized. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze and summarize the results of a qualitative and quantitative peer reviewed articles discussing the issue of hospital readmission and patient education. Qualitative study Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a chronic, serious and pricey health condition with a huge medical, social and economic impact. Caring for patients with heart failure is not only about treating the disease’s physical symptoms; it involves educational, supportive, emotional, and cooperative care
Angina, Myocardial Infarction, and Cardiac Arrest Comparison and Contrast Hannah Bunce Fayetteville Technical Community College Angina, Myocardial Infarction, and Cardiac Arrest Comparison and Contrast Three of the most commonly occurring cardiac related events: angina, myocardial infarction, and cardiac arrest, are commonly confused. However, there is a huge difference between each of them. It is crucial to be informed of each of these cardiovascular emergencies and to be able to differentiate between them. As a medical professional it is also very important to know the appropriate care for each these cardiac related emergencies.
Staples & Earle (2008) used a phenomenology research design, where they used a convenience sample of CHF patients to determine effective technologies for monitoring patients with heart failure admissions and mortality. The effectiveness of CHF patients through the use of telephonic assessments and interventions was implemented. Congestive Heart Failure study participants (n=591) were managed by a team of registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Data was collected using a telephone log and appropriate medical protocols were provided. Data was analyzed; determining frequency of calls, level of care required and scope of practice needed to ensure proper care of the patients.
Cardiomyopathy can occur from the lack of dystrophin on the heart muscles. Cardiomyopathy makes it difficult for the patient to breathe. The heart becomes weak and swollen. It is not able to pump enough blood throughout the body, which will cause life-threatening results.
Some signs that a patient may have right sided heart failure are: shortness of breath, swelling of feet and ankles, JVD. This is often diagnosed by a EKG, or a chest xray. There are a few ways to determine if a patient has carpal tunnel. The Phalen 's sign is a common test used to do this the provider will have the patient hold your elbows at shoulder level and place the backs of your hands together with your wrists bent at 90 degrees. Hold this position for 60 seconds.
Various studies have shown that heart diseases are number one killer in America. It has been observed that rate of re-hospitalization of patients, aged 55 years and up, suffering from suffering congestive heart failure is quite high than other ailments. Many researchers have pointed out that inadequate patient education at the time of discharge is one of the reasons of increased rate of readmissions in CHF patients. Many studies show that the lack of self-reliance and gist of self-care management are the root cause of re-hospitalization.
What causes the heart to become weaker? There is a number of causes, but most of all, the arteries may narrow in the heart. That is another disease known as Coronary Artery Disease. Another reason that a Congestive Heart Failure may occur is because of high blood pressure.
Phase II(sub-acute phase): When you leave the healing facility, your heart recovery project will proceed at an outpatient office. Stage two of cardiovascular restoration more often than not endures from 3-6 weeks and includes kept checking of your heart reactions to practice and movement. Another imperative part of stage two cardiovascular restoration is training about fitting activity methodology, and about how to self-screen heart rate and effort levels amid activity.
This condition, known as a coronary vein malady, causes most heart attacks. On the off chance that you think you are showing at least a bit of kindness attack check for these side effects: Dizziness, weakness, unsteadiness, sickness, damp skin, frosty sweat, or sweating. Likewise, there could be a gentle, crushing, in the arm, between shoulder bones, mid-section, jaw, left arm, or upper stomach area, which could be a sign that you are showing at least a bit of kindness attack (Neal
Coronary heart disease starts to develop at a young age when plaque can start to develop in the blood vesicles walls. As your get older, the plaque builds up, inflaming the blood vesicle walls, making your arteries more prone to blood clots and giving you a higher risk for a heart attack. Soon enough, the plaque starts to release chemicals for healing but ends up making the artery sticky, resulting in things like calcium sticking to your blood vesicle walls. The heart then tries to compromise by making new vesicles to do the job of the damaged ones, but in times of stress the new vesicles may not be able to provide enough oxygen-rich blood to your heart. If you have a big enough blood clot that totally shuts down your artery, you have a heart
There are usually two major types of heart failure. The Rright-sided failure, occurs when the right ventricle is not able to pump blood effectively into the pulmonary artery, causing increased volume and pressure in the venous system and causing peripheral edema. Left sided heart failure (CHF) which involves with decreased cardiac output and elevated pulmonary venous pressure may be acute, chronic, and mild to severe. It is further divided into systolic failure and diastolic failure. Systolic failure happens when the heart cannot contract forcefully during systole to eject adequate amount of blood into the circulation.
Chronic kidney failure, also known as Chronic Kidney Disease is a disease that is the lose of the function of the kidneys. Basically, it makes the kidney’s function lose it’s function. Chronic kidney failure causes kidney to lose its function and cause dangerous levels of fluid, electrolytes and wastes can build up in your body. The kidney’s function is to filter out waste in blood.
As the heart demands exceed normal compensatory mechanisms appear signs of congestive heart failure. These signs include
My current practice setting is primarily based out of the hospital and quality care measures as well as cost analyses are certainly of big concern this day and time. Providers are constantly making sure that all "quality indicators" are present on each and every cardiac consult that is encountered and making sure that the documentation supports the reason why a certain "quality indicator" is not indicated on the individual patient. What I find thought provoking is that although I may discharge a chronic systolic heart failure patient on all the core measure medications and they demonstrated improvement while in the hospital for the 3 to 4 days that they are allowed for that admission, they still bounce right back into the hospital for "congestive
To a large extent, heart failure is a disease that is managed medically. Medications such as ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers are well established in the treatment of heart failure, reducing mortality and hospitalisations (3). Lifestyle interventions can substantially improve the population’s health, because obesity, hypertension, diabetes and smoking all dramatically increase the likelihood of heart failure. The goals of treatment in patients with heart failure are to improve their quality of life by controlling the symptoms of the disease and to prolong life by slowing the disease’s progression. Research was carried out on heart failure, its frequency, guidelines to prevent it, the burden it has on the patient, management of the
