Model for heart failure education.

Analiza Baldonado¹, Danette Dutra, Katherine Abriam-Yago

• ¹Analiza Baldonado, DNP, MSN/ED, CCRN, recently graduated from California State University, Northern California Doctor of Nursing Practice Program (DNP). This is a joint DNP program of Fresno State University and San Jose State University. Her experience included as a quality improvement coordinator of Valley Health Plan and 13 years of critical care experience. Dr Baldonado was selected as an Evidence-Based Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for Nursing Excellence. She has multiple publications in the area of critical care and presented in multiple settings nationally and internationally. Danette Dutra, EdD, FNP-C, MSN, is currently employed as an assistant professor at a California State University, Fresno, School of Nursing. She continues to practice as both a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner within an Emergency Department. She has total 33 years of critical care nursing and has worked as an educator for all levels of nursing, including acute-care staff education. She has published primarily pertaining to educational theory as it relates to the education of nurses. Her current teaching assignments are focused on the practice of education within the nursing profession. Katherine Abriam-Yago, EdD, RN, is the director and professor at San Jose State University the Valley Foundation School of Nursing. Her nursing experience has been in a variety of settings, which include medical surgical, coronary care, intensive care, and home care. She has taught undergraduate and graduate students. She has a mixture of 50 invited and refereed activities in the area of mentoring, student achievement, and leadership development.