Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Specialist Nurse Intervention - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0727916025 ISBN 13: 9780727916020

Publisher: BMJ Books, 2001

Synopsis

Heart failure is a condition that often results in chronic tiredness and shortness of breath. It also requires complex nursing and medical treatment especially after a hospital admission, which is all too frequent for persons with heart failure.

This book describes and discusses the latest research concerning the benefits of having specially trained nurses manage the care of patients with heart failure after they have been discharged from hospital to their own home. Leading nurses and doctors from around the world discuss their experiences with this type of innovative and effective care program.

Building upon these experiences, the book also contains a practical guide to developing this type of care program into a fully functional service that provides quality care to those patients admitted to hospital with heart failure.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

International experience has shown that specialist nurse management of chronic heart failure patients improves quality of life and long term survival whilst reducing readmissions. This book is the first written by those participating in the studies, providing both the evidence and a practical guide to implementation.

Contents include:

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• Chronic heart failure – epidemiology and consequences
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• Beneficial effects of specialist nurse intervention in; The US, New Zealand, Sweden, Scotland, Australia
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• Creating an effective specialist nurse-led service t for the post-discharge management of choice heart failure

Contributions are by internationally respected experts, and the editors are leaders in this new initiative in chronic heart failure management. This clear, concise account will provide all those involved with chronic heart failure patients –from specialist nurses and cardiologists to the primary care team – with a uniquely focused and helpful guide to improving their patients’ lives.

About the Author:

The editors Simon Stewart and Lynda Blue are internationally recognised as pioneers of this major advance in CHF patient care. They have invited leading authors to contribute chapters to this second edition, which will be an invaluable source of information for all specialist cardiac nurses, and other health care workers in CHF.

About this edition

• Publisher: BMJ Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0727916025
• ISBN 13: 9780727916020
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: Stewart Simon, Blue Lynda