Transitioning from hospital to reality: Do newly diagnosed heart failure patients benefit from a Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist providing focused education at discharge?

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Transitioning from hospital to reality: Do newly diagnosed heart failure patients benefit from a Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist providing focused education at discharge?

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BACKGROUND Heart failure is a complex and progressive condition in which cardiac muscle or the myocardium is impaired in its ability to maintain optimal cardiac output to provide sufficient oxygenated blood to meet the metabolic requirements of the body. Heart failure is one of the most common diagnoses of hospital admissions and it is predicted that globally up to 20% of the population will develop heart failure over their life span. This is largely credited to people living longer due to mo...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

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2018

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Reeves, Emma

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6050

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New Zealand / heart failure / Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist / patient education / self-management / randomised control trial / Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) / Nursing not elsewhere classified / Te hauora me te oranga o te Māori (Māori health and wellbeing) / Mate manawa

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