Category: Heart Disease

Congestive Heart Failure Patients Overview and Guiding Propositions The self-care theory by Dorothea Orem seems a well-established and suitable theory for this research. Self-care theory is based on a belief that it is each persons interest and responsibility to care for his or her own health and health of the friends and family (Riegel, Dickson,…

Table of Contents Introduction Recommendations for chronic bronchitis Suspected heart failure and its pathogenesis Hypertension type and rationale for medications Lipid panel analysis HbA1c test and its rationale Conclusion References Introduction Chronic bronchitis (CB) is one of the usual occurrences during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It presents divergent clinical complications such as a risk…

Data Analysis for Demographic Variables Demographic variables for this project include age, ethnicity, gender, lifestyle, and socioeconomic status because professionals tend to reveal that heart failure affects people when they become older. With the help of analyzing demographic variables and presenting descriptive statistics, it will be possible not only to identify at what age people…

The final topic is congestive heart failure (CHF) nature and readmission of people diagnosed with this disease in respective hospitals. The problem statement is formulated as follows: since CHF is one of the main health care concerns in cardiovascular care, there is a need to conduct a research and determine potential ways to improve current…

Table of Contents Research Question Research Design Sample Data Collection Methods Limitations Findings Conclusion References There is no doubt that practices applied by nurses have a significant influence on the quality of lives of patients. In his article, Stavrianopoulos (2016) evaluates the effectiveness of one of the methods utilized by nurses working with patients who…

The self-care nursing theory was developed by Dorothea Orem and is based on the premise that nurses can teach and assist patients with the ability to practice self-care and maintain personal health and well-being. Self-care is defined as the natural decision-making process that consists of behaviors that allow for physiologic stability and management of symptoms…

Introduction Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the major health concerns in the United States. Once a patient is offered proper treatment, he or she is expected to embrace a new lifestyle with a proper diet and physical exercise among others. According to Leppin et al. (2014), the lack of proper care for such…

Table of Contents Extraneous Variables Instruments Description of the Intervention Data Collection Procedures References Extraneous Variables In addition to the main variables, including the readmission level of people with congestive heart failure (CHF) and patient well-being, some extraneous criteria may also be taken into account. In particular, the degree of exercise as one of the…

The setting of data collection will occur in a hospital acute-care unit, outpatient facilities such as a practitioners office, and via telephone follow-up at the end of the study. Since the research focuses on patient education, the primary inclusion criteria would be admittance to a hospital with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF). The…

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the major reasons for hospital readmissions. The investigation of the information gathered during the first phase of the research is conducted in the form of multivariate logistic regression analysis and the Chi-Square independence test. They are used to find correlations between patient factors, interventions, and patients readmission rates.…