The Value of an Advanced Practice Nurse-Led Heart Failure Clinic as Demonstrated by Improvements in Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Scores

Menefee, Felicia; Spertus, John A.; Lipke, Janet; VanScoy, Rebecca; Magalski, Anthony; Fantroy, Claudia; Kao, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2007.06.700

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“…The seminal work of Naylor and colleagues with coordination of care by APRNs for HF patients provided much of the evidence to lay the groundwork. 60,69–70 Menefee 71 found that 50% of HF patients improved KCCQ scores after 3-months of care in an APRN-led HF clinic.…”

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Health Status and Self-care Outcomes After an Education-Support Intervention for People With Chronic Heart Failure

Clark

McDougall

Riegel

et al. 2015

Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

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Background The rising cost of hospitalizations for heart failure (HF) care mandates intervention models to address education for self-care success. The effectiveness of memory enhancement strategies to improve self-care and learning needs further examination. Objective The objective of this study was to examine the effects of an education-support intervention delivered in the home setting, using strategies to improve health status and self-care in adults/older adults with class I-III HF. Our secondary purpose was to explore participants’ subjective perceptions of the intervention. Methods This study used a randomized, 2 group design. Fifty people were enrolled for 9 months and tested at 4 time points—baseline; following a 3-month education-support intervention; at 6 months, following 3-months of telephone/email support; and 9 months, following a 3-month period of no contact. Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) delivered the intervention. Memory enhancement methods were built into the teaching materials and delivery of the intervention. We measured the intervention’s effectiveness on health status outcomes (functional status, self-efficacy, quality of life, emotional state/depressive symptoms, and metamemory) and self-care outcomes (knowledge/knowledge retention, self-care ability). Subjects evaluated the usefulness of the intervention at the end of the study. Results The mean age of the sample was 62.4 years, with a slight majority of female participants. Participants were well educated and had other concomitant diseases, including diabetes (48%), and an unexpected degree of obesity. The intervention group showed significant improvements in functional status, self-efficacy and quality of life (Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire-KCCQ); metamemory Change and Capacity subscales (Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire-MIA); self-care knowledge (HF Knowledge Test-HFKT); and self-care (Self-Care in Heart Failure Index—SCHFI). Participants in both groups improved in depressive scores (Geriatric Depression Scale-GDS). Conclusions An in-home intervention delivered by APRNs was successful in several health status and self-care outcomes, including self-efficacy, quality of life, metamemory, self-care status, and HF knowledge.

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