Certified Heart Failure Nurse

American Association of Heart Failure Nurses Position Paper on the Certified Heart Failure Nurse - Knowledge (CHFN-K) Certification.

Oncology Certified Nurse Specialist in Japan.

The purpose of this article is to review a historical perspective of the Certified Nurse Specialist role and current trends in nursing education and practice of the Oncology Certified Nurse Specialist. Since the initiation of Certified Nurse Specialist credentialing system in 1995, 193 Oncology Certified Nurse Specialists have practiced in clinical settings. The Oncology Certified Nurse Special...

Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology heart failure nurse curriculum.

Recent advances in care and management of heart failure have improved outcome, largely as a result of the developing evidence basis for medications, implantable devices and the organization of heart failure follow-up. Such developments have also increased the complexity of delivering and coordinating care. This has led to a change to the way in which heart failure services are organized and to ...

Randomised controlled trial of specialist nurse intervention in heart failure.

OBJECTIVES To determine whether specialist nurse intervention improves outcome in patients with chronic heart failure. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Acute medical admissions unit in a teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 165 patients admitted with heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction. The intervention started before discharge and continued thereafter with ho...

A nurse-guided patient-centered heart failure education program

Objective/Background: Heart Failure (HF) places substantial burden on patients, families, communities, and care systems. Patients who suffer from HF often experience a decline in health resulting in recurrent hospitalizations and debilitating symptoms including breathing problems, fluid retention, and chronic fatigue. HF is the most common cause of repeat hospitalizations in the Medicare progra...