Clinical care for the patient with heart failure: A nursing care perspective

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2015
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Providing clinical nursing care to a patient with a heart disease requires the application of the knowledge of disease process which informs the nursing intervention. This paper presents a discussion on some priority aspects of clinical care for the patient with heart failure from the perspective of nursing care as summarized in the figure below. A brief summative overview of the disease process and the central concept in heart failure as fundamental to the conceptualization of clinical care needs for a patient with heart failure was presented. Application of the framework of the nursing process in providing clinical nursing care for a patient with a heart disease and the application of ethical principles were discussed. Thus, competent and therefore safe clinical care for a patient with heart failure requires comprehensive nursing care which embraces both the scientific approach and ethics of care
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Heart failure, Clinical, Nursing care
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Amakali, K. (2015). Clinical care for the patient with heart failure: a nursing care perspective. Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 4(2), 1-5.