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Improving Nurses' Knowledge of Heart Failure
1Maureen G. Roussel, DNP, APRN, CCRN, CCNS, is the Cardiothoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist, Heart and Vascular Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, Connecticut.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the difference in cardiac nurses' knowledge and perceived competency in the care of patients with heart failure (HF). Fifty-seven cardiac RNs completed the Advanced Heart Failure Clinical Competency Survey as a pretest/posttest measure. Each participant attended a 30-minute HF education session. Nurses' knowledge of HF significantly improved from 25.60 (SD = 2.92) pretest score to 27.30 (SD = 3.11) posttest score. The difference between the two means is statistically significant at the .001 level (t = -4.2, df = 56).
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