Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: A practical guide to specialist nurse intervention. This item is unavailable.Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: A practical guide to specialist nurse intervention

Heart failure is a condition that often results in chronic tiredness and shortness of breath. It also requires complex nursing and medical treatment, especially after a hospital admission, which is all too frequent for persons with heart failure.

This book describes and discusses the latest research concerning the benefits of having specially trained nurses manage the care of patients with heart failure after they have been discharged from hospital to their own home. Leading nurses and doctors from around the world discuss their experiences with this type of innovative and effective care program.

Building upon these experiences, the book also contains a practical guide to developing this type of care program into a fully functional service that provides quality care to those patients admitted to hospital with heart failure.

The editors Simon Stewart and Lynda Blue are internationally recognised as pioneers of this major advance in CHF patient care. They have invited leading authors to contribute chapters to this second edition, which will be an invaluable source of information for all specialist cardiac nurses, and other health care workers in CHF.