• Find People
  • Campus Map
  • PiratePort
  • A-Z
    • About
    • Submit
    • Browse
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • Division of Health Sciences
    • College of Nursing
    • View Item
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • Division of Health Sciences
    • College of Nursing
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of The ScholarShipCommunities & CollectionsDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate SubmittedThis CollectionDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate Submitted

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Google Analytics Statistics

    REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN A HOME HEALTH AGENCY

    application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
    View/ Open
    DNP Project J Mazurek.docx (2.100Mb)

    Show full item record
    Author
    Mazurek, Jennifer
    Abstract
    The cost of care for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients can be greatly reduced by utilizing home health services. However, baseline data analyzed on initial chart review of patients admitted to one local home health agency showed that interventions were not preventing rehospitalization within 30 days of hospital discharge. A gap in management of CHF patients was identified at the home health agency. Utilization of an evidence-based tool by clinical staff to instruct CHF patients on self-managing their care needed to be incorporated into the existing Pulmonary Disease Program (PDP). This quality improvement project sought to address this gap by integrating the evidence-based tool “Self-Check Plan for HF Management”. The outcome measurements evaluated were improvements in clinical staff adherence using this tool. The Plan-Do-Study-Act model was used to guide and evaluate the change process. Results showed that clinical staff improved adherence by 14% in teaching CHF patients at the initial visit using the tool. Clinical staff adding the tool onto the plan of care for CHF patients improved by 10%. Furthermore, a 23% improvement in clinical staff adherence was demonstrated with documentation that the tool was reviewed at the next follow-up visit. Therefore, clinical staff were prepared to continue utilizing a tool as part of their new Cardiopulmonary Disease Program (CDP) once it was integrated into the home health agency.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7144
    Subject
    congestive heart failure, readmissions, home health care
    Date
    2019-04-17
    Citation:
    APA:
    Mazurek, Jennifer. (April 2019). REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN A HOME HEALTH AGENCY (DNP Scholarly Project, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7144.)

    Display/Hide MLA, Chicago and APA citation formats.

    MLA:
    Mazurek, Jennifer. REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN A HOME HEALTH AGENCY. DNP Scholarly Project. East Carolina University, April 2019. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7144. March 04, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Mazurek, Jennifer, “REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN A HOME HEALTH AGENCY” (DNP Scholarly Project., East Carolina University, April 2019).
    AMA:
    Mazurek, Jennifer. REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN A HOME HEALTH AGENCY [DNP Scholarly Project]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; April 2019.
    Collections
    • College of Nursing

    xmlui.ArtifactBrowser.ItemViewer.elsevier_entitlement

    East Carolina University has created ScholarShip, a digital archive for the scholarly output of the ECU community.

    • About
    • Contact Us
    • Send Feedback