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Thesis
Community Health Workers and Control of Heart Failure Exacerbation
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
12/2009
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3571
Abstract
Promoting optimal health for patients with heart failure remains one of the most difficult disease management challenges in the primary care setting. Nurse practitioners are seeing more patients with heart failure who have complicated management issues. Control of heart failure exacerbation involves both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. Office based encounters alone make it difficult for the nurse practitioner to adequately address and support a patient. Community health workers (CHWs) are a resource that can be utilized to supplement traditional patient care management. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CHWs function within their own communities to support, encourage and promote self-management of chronic disease symptoms. This article seeks to explore the potential of expanding the health care team to include a CHW who would provide education, prevention, and case management for the heart failure patient in collaboration with a nurse practitioner provider. The CHW can reinforce and encourage many of the goals established by a nurse practitioner and patient.
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- Title
- Community Health Workers and Control of Heart Failure Exacerbation
- Creators
- Rebecca Rawson
- Contributors
- Louise Kaplan (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590737601842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis