Managing heart failure in the long-term care setting: nurses' experiences in Ontario, Canada

Patricia H Strachan¹, Sharon Kaasalainen, Amy Horton+8

• ¹Patricia H. Strachan, PhD, RN, is Associate Professor; and Sharon Kaasalainen, PhD, RN, is Associate Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Amy Horton, MN, RN(EC), is Nurse Practitioner-Primary Health Care, Tutor-Ontario Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Hellen Jarman, RN(EC), BScN, MN, GNC(C), is Nurse Practitioner-Primary Health Care, Geriatric Medicine Consultation Service, ED/Community Outreach Program, St. Mary's General Hospital, Ontario, Canada. Teresa D'Elia, MA, is Project Coordinator, Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mary-Lou Van Der Horst, RN, MScN, MBA, is Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Project Consultant Seniors' Health, Conestoga College and University of Waterloo-Research Institute for Aging-Schlegel Villages, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Ian Newhouse, PhD, is Professor, School of Kinesiology, Director of the Centre for Education and Research in Aging and Health, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Mary Lou Kelley, MSW, PhD, is Lakehead University Research Chair in Palliative Care Professor, School of Social Work and Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Carrie McAiney, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Robert McKelvie, MD, PhD, FRCPC, is Professor, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. George A. Heckman, MD, MSc, FRCPC, is Schlegel Research Chair for Geriatric Medicine, Associate Professor, Research Institute for Aging and School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.