Course Code: REL-ACU-0-AHF
Hours: 1
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Describe heart failure, including its classification systems, presentation, treatment, and evidence-based therapies.
Describe strategies for patient self-management.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Acute Failure
Background
Case Studies
Definition and Classification of HF
Acute Decompensated HF (ADHF) Presentation and Treatment
Inpatient Admission Treatment
Implementing GDMT
HF Medication
Treatment Options for HF Patients That Are in Stages C and D
Review
Review
Section 3: Patient Education
Self-Management
Nutrient Needs in HF
Physical Activity
Care Transitions
Discharge Readiness
Review
Review
Section 4: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
Writer: Zeliha Ozen, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNL
Zeliha has extensive experience in critical care nursing in acute care hospitals, including cardiac intensive care (CICU) and medical intensive care units (MICU). She has served in various roles, including educator, preceptor, charge nurse, and advanced critical care life support (ACLS) instructor. She has extensive experience as a code nurse for a 900-bed hospital. Zeliha has been a lung transplant coordinator for around five years and was responsible for pre-transplant care, waitlist management, and post-lung transplant care. Zeliha has worked on cutting-edge transplant organ procurement initiatives such as Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) and has managed patients in a hospital that performs around 100 transplants annually. Additionally, Zeliha has served as quality chair council for the heart and vascular services and has worked on several quality initiatives for the service line, such as infection control, cardiac education, nursing resiliency, and nursing onboarding. She has served on various leadership councils in the CICU. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Saint John University in Rochester, New York. She has a Master of Science in Nursing and a Master’s in Clinical Nurse Leadership (CNL) from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is also certified as a Critical Care Nurse (CCRN).
Subject Matter Expert: Kristine Anne Scordo, Ph.D., ACNP-BC, FAANP
Dr. Scordo is a Professor Emerita and former director of the Acute Care Adult-Gerontology Program at Wright State University and has been practicing in adult cardiology for 35 years. She is the outgoing chair of the advanced practice registered nurses’ workgroup for the American College of Cardiology and is widely published and a nationally known speaker.
Reviewer: Meredith Moyers MS, RD, LDN
Meredith earned a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from The University of Akron and a Master of Science in Human Nutrition from Eastern Michigan University. After completing her internship with The Detroit Medical Center in 2007, she began working in various academic medical centers in Ohio and North Carolina. She has experience in providing nutrition therapy in both acute and ambulatory settings. Her areas of nutrition specialty include oncology, cardio-thoracic transplant, renal, and general medicine. Meredith has been a guest speaker for numerous cancer survivorship groups and presented telemedicine lectures for North Carolina community colleges. She founded and ran an oncology teaching garden at the SECU Family House for patients and their families undergoing cancer treatment at The University of North Carolina. She is currently a SME writer for Relias.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Dietitians; Nurses; in the following settings: Acute Care Facility.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.