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Thesis
The Role of the Nurse Practitioner in Reducing Heart Failure Hospital Readmissions
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
07/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3098
Abstract
More than five million Americans are living with heart failure (HF), a chronic condition which impairs the heart's ability to supply sufficient blood to meet the body's oxygenation requirements (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, 2010). There are more than one million HF related hospitalizations annually with a 1 in 4 readmission rate within 30 days of hospitalization (Joynt, 2011). There are a variety of techniques currently in practice in an attempt to decrease HF readmissions and therefore reduce the financial and clinical burden on the healthcare system. The purpose of this paper is to identify current strategies that reduce HF hospital readmissions and recommend key components for nurse practitioners to help reduce HF readmissions.
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- Title
- The Role of the Nurse Practitioner in Reducing Heart Failure Hospital Readmissions
- Creators
- Janell Riepma
- Contributors
- Ginny Guido (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
- 99900590723401842
- 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