Heart failure (HF) is a progressive disease which affects more than five million Americans (Yancy et al.‚ 2013). HF negatively impacts quality of life and it is associated with frequent hospitalizations and high mortality. Evidence-based practice guidelines aid health care professionals with treatment management and provide pathways to optimize individual patient care. The main goal of treatment is to slow the progression of the disease and control its symptoms. These pathways address all stages
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Teaching Plan Cognitive behavioral Distortions Guided Imagery Learner Outcomes Content Outline Methodology Time Frame Evaluation 1. Learner will recite their understanding of the connection between our thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviors. 2. Learner will be able to recite one way in which positive thinking can improve one’s outlook on life and ones decisions Examples of current application of guided imagery—sports psychology‚ cancer‚ HIV. Definition of cognitive errors
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For this community-teaching plan‚ I chose to discuss Coumadin therapy. I presented the secondary prevention and screening for vulnerable people. The demographic of the audience were all nurses. RN s and LPNs were educated on why we use Coumadin and why it is so important to understand the side effects of the medication and what risk factors to be aware of when administering the medication. When dispensing the medication to our patients‚ it is our responsibility as their nurse to be fully aware of
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Congestive Heart Failure Patients 1 KA R A M A S T E R S SAMMY RAMIREZ Heart Failure 2 Three major types of heart failure Left-sided heart failure Right-sided heart failure High-output heart failure (Ignatavicius & Workman‚ 2013) (CDC‚ 2013) (CDC‚ 2013) Heart Failure 3 About 5.1 million Americans have heart failure (CDC‚ 2013) Roughly half of those diagnosed with heart failure die within 5 years of diagnosis (CDC‚ 2013) In 2009‚ 1 in 9 deaths included heart failure as contributing
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JAN ORIGINAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING A randomized controlled trial of self-management programme improves health-related outcomes of older people with heart failure Jung-Hua Shao‚ Anne M. Chang‚ Helen Edwards‚ Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu & Su-Hui Chen Accepted for publication 2 February 2013 Correspondence to Su-Hui Chen: e-mail: sophee@gw.cgust.edu.tw Jung-Hua Shao PhD RN Assistant Professor School of Nursing‚ College of Medicine‚ Chang Gung University‚ Taiwan Anne M. Chang PhD RN
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Congestive heart failure is the process in which the heart becomes in-able to maintain circulation for the requirements of the body at an effective rate‚ As the heart is one of the body’s vital organs‚ it plays an important role and has some degree of compensating mechanisms to balance the body’s needs with existing disease of the heart. Eventually when the heart is no longer able to compensate heart failure occurs; congestion will then follow‚ resulting in insufficient supply of blood to the body
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DIABETIC TEACHING PLAN Teaching/learning methods used: * Individual Instruction * Visual aids * Return demonstration * Reinforce teaching * Group discussion * Questions and Answers Topic(s) on Diabetes: (Do not select more than two topics). 1. What is Diabetes? (include Type I and Type II) 2. Oral Anti -Diabetic Medications 3. Insulin administration and Storage 4. Diet instructions
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TEACHING PLAN DO’S AND DON’TS OF HYPHEMA Description of the learner: The learner is a patient from Saint Louis University Hospital of the sacred heart‚ a student residing at Buyagan La Trinidad‚ Benguet. The client is 15 years old and a female‚ a 3rd year high school student. She claims that her dominant language is Kankanaey and their second language is Ilocano‚ but the client can understand Kankanaey‚ Ilocano‚ Tagalog and English. The client is willing to learn the Do’s and Don’ts of hyphema
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Organ Failure Intro 1. Definition Organ failure is when an organ in the body does not perform its expected function. Especially while one’s under medical treatment such as injuries‚ postoperative shock‚ or major infectious disease‚ one’s vital organs are more likely to malfunction. 2. Reasons (Causes) sepsis (the presence of bacteria in the bloods) and of shock (very low blood pressure). It can occur two or more systems in the body in which case it is multiple organ failure. Body 3. Problems resulting
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Inter American University of Puerto Rico Metropolitan Campus Department of science and technology School of nursing Carmen Torres of Tiburcio TEACHING-LEARNING PLAN FOR THE FAMILY AS CLIENT Student name__ Joey Park _____________________________ Professor Vasquez Family Learning diagnosis________Hypertesion: Knowledge deficit____ __________________________ Date____10/22/12_____________ * Learning Objective | Topics/ContentOutline | Strategies | | ResourceMaterials
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