CHF Education and Readmission Reduction

<p><strong>Descriptive Abstract</strong></p> <p><strong>Purpose</strong>: To improve patient care and help reduce CHF readmissions by addressing CHF patient education among nursing staff.</p> <p><strong>Specific Aim: </strong>We aim to improve patient self-care and safety, and decrease the readmission rate for persons admitted with CHF at MSJMC by enhancing the process and content of current CHF patient education. Nursing staff will report a 100% confidence rate and intent to provide needed CHF education, and a long-term CHF readmission rate goal of 22% will be achieved by December 31^st, 2016.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>Five proposed activities were to: 1. Increase nursing knowledge of patient resources; 2. Advertize free community CHF class on May 5^th; 3. Create ‘Heart Failure Zones’ patient education standardization; 4. Observe staff nurse consistency with the teach-back method<strong>; </strong>and 5. Assess staff nurse perception of an evidence-based checklist trial.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Level thesis:degree_level

Restricted Project/Capstone - USF access only

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Taft, Whitney K

Contributors dc:contributor

• Elena Capella
• Stacy Simmons

• CHF
• patient education
• teach-back
• and CHF readmissions
• Other Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/127

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1130