Hospital nurses’ comfort in and frequency of delivering heart failure self-care education
Population
118 hospital nurses, mean age 39 ± 11.6 years, 61.9% worked on cardiac units
Design
Cross-sectional
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Discussion
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Implication
May support prioritizing pre-discharge time for HF education; hypothesis-generating for interventions to improve delivery.
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Population
118 hospital nurses, mean age 39 ± 11.6 years, 61.9% worked on cardiac units
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Outcome
Nurses' comfort in and frequency of delivering heart failure education to hospitalized patients
Nurses' comfort and frequency of delivering heart failure self-care education vary by topic, with areas most critical to survival having the lowest rates of delivery, highlighting a need for improved education systems.
Cite This Study
Albert et al. (2014) studied this question.