Cardiac Care

Creator: Tina Marrellli, MSN, MA, RN, FAAN
Updated: 5/15/2023
Contains: 25 items

Cardiac care is an important component of skillful home health care. Heart failure (HF), atrial fibrillation, after surgery care and other cardiac-related problem are leading reasons for home health care and hospitalizations. This cluster of related health problems also involves complex medication regimens, knowledge in fundamental pathophysiology and palliative care for these patients. This Collection addresses medications –both oral and IV, cardiac home care disease management, caring for those with advanced HF, and other topics about best-practices in cardiac care.

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Interrupting Biases in the Experience and Management of Pain Nurses can help address challenges faced by racially and ethnically diverse patients and caregivers.

Booker, Staja Q.; Baker, Tamara A.; Epps, Fayron; More

Home Healthcare Now. 41(2):98-104, March/April 2023.

Cardiovascular Assessment

Home Healthcare Now. 40(5):E9, September/October 2022.

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Teaching Family Caregivers to Assist Safely with Mobility: Methods for safe patient handling can and should be used in the home

Powell-Cope, Gail; Pippins, Karla M.; Young, Heather M.

Home Healthcare Now. 40(3):133-138, May/June 2022.

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Teaching Family Caregivers to Assist Safely with Mobility: Methods for safe patient handling can and should be used in the home

Powell-Cope, Gail; Pippins, Karla M.; Young, Heather M.

Home Healthcare Now. 40(3):133-138, May/June 2022.

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Preventing Falls and Fall-Related Injuries at Home: Teaching family caregivers about home modification and what to do if a fall occurs

Powell-Cope, Gail; Thomason, Susan; Bulat, Tatjana; More

Home Healthcare Now. 40(3):128-132, May/June 2022.

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Effects of a Caregiver Educational Program on Interactions between Family Caregivers and Patients with Advanced COPD

Vagharseyyedin, Seyyed Abolfazl; Arbabi, Mahdi; Rahimi, Hossein; More

Home Healthcare Now. 40(2):75-81, March/April 2022.

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: Rural Home Care and Hospice Nurses' Experiences Caring for Veterans

McMillan, Libba Reed; Elliott, Brenda; Chargualaf, Katie A.

Home Healthcare Now. 40(1):19-26, January/February 2022.

Pain in Homebound Older Adults with Heart Failure after Hospital Discharge

Kang, Youjeong; Choi, Yong K.; Stehlik, Josef; More

Home Healthcare Now. 39(5):278-285, September/October 2021.

Improving Community Health Nurses' Knowledge of Heart Failure Education Principles: A Descriptive Study

Home Healthcare Nurse. 30(2):99-101, February 2012.

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Perspectives From Family Caregivers Receiving Home Nursing Support: Findings From a Qualitative Study of Home Care Patients With Heart Failure

Saunders, Mitzi M.

Home Healthcare Nurse. 30(2):82-90, February 2012.

Perspectives From Family Caregivers Receiving Home Nursing Support: Findings From a Qualitative Study of Home Care Patients With Heart Failure

Saunders, Mitzi M.

Home Healthcare Nurse. 30(2):82-90, February 2012.

Improving Heart Failure in Home Care with Chronic Disease Management and Telemonitoring

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 28(10):617-619, November-December 2010.

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Improving Heart Failure in Home Care with Chronic Disease Management and Telemonitoring

HALL, PAMELA; MORRIS, MOLLIE

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 28(10):606-617, November-December 2010.

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Intravenous HEART FAILURE Medications: An Update for Home Health Clinicians

Sherrod, Melissa McIntire; Graulty, Roger; Crawford, Mitch; More

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 27(10):610-619, November-December 2009.

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Heart Failure: An Update

Coviello, Jessica

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 27(6):354-361, June 2009.

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Peripheral Arterial Disease and the Ankle-Brachial Index: What Home Healthcare Clinicians Need to Know

Asongwed, Elmira T.; Chesbro, Steven B.; Karavatas, Spiridon G.

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 27(3):160-167, March 2009.

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Performance Improvement in Managed Long-Term Care: Improving Warfarin Medication Management

Desmond, Donna; Kogan, Polina; Underwood, Susan; More

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 27(3):150-159, March 2009.

Family Caregiver Support and Hospitalizations of Patients With Heart Failure

Saunders, Mitzi M.

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 26(10):624-632, November-December 2008.

Oral Heart Failure Medications: AN UPDATE FOR HOME HEALTH CLINICIANS

Cheek, Dennis J.; Sherrod, Melissa M.; Graulty, Roger; More

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 26(10):600-611, November-December 2008.

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How a Heart Failure Home Care Disease Management Program Makes a Difference

ROSA, MARY ANN

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 26(8):483-490, September 2008.

Caring for Persons with Advanced Heart Failure

WINGATE, SUE

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 25(8):511-520, September 2007.

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The Use of Supportive-Educative and Mutual Goal-Setting Strategies to Improve Self-Management for Patients With Heart Failure

KLINE, KAY SETTER; SCOTT, LINDA D.; BRITTON, AGNES S.

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 25(8):502-510, September 2007.

Cultural Considerations and the Hispanic Cardiac Client

KNOERL, ANN MARIE

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 25(2):82-86, February 2007.

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Low-Technology Heart Failure Care in Home Health: Improving Patient Outcomes

Quinn, Christina

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 24(8):533-540, September 2006.

PREVENTING SURGICAL-SITE INFECTIONS After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: A Guide for the Home Health Nurse

LORD, CORY

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 24(1):28-35, January 2006.

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Cardiac Care

Interrupting Biases in the Experience and Management of Pain Nurses can help address challenges faced by racially and ethnically diverse patients and caregivers.

Cardiovascular Assessment

Teaching Family Caregivers to Assist Safely with Mobility: Methods for safe patient handling can and should be used in the home

Teaching Family Caregivers to Assist Safely with Mobility: Methods for safe patient handling can and should be used in the home

Preventing Falls and Fall-Related Injuries at Home: Teaching family caregivers about home modification and what to do if a fall occurs

Effects of a Caregiver Educational Program on Interactions between Family Caregivers and Patients with Advanced COPD

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: Rural Home Care and Hospice Nurses' Experiences Caring for Veterans

Pain in Homebound Older Adults with Heart Failure after Hospital Discharge

Improving Community Health Nurses' Knowledge of Heart Failure Education Principles: A Descriptive Study

Perspectives From Family Caregivers Receiving Home Nursing Support: Findings From a Qualitative Study of Home Care Patients With Heart Failure

Perspectives From Family Caregivers Receiving Home Nursing Support: Findings From a Qualitative Study of Home Care Patients With Heart Failure

Improving Heart Failure in Home Care with Chronic Disease Management and Telemonitoring

Improving Heart Failure in Home Care with Chronic Disease Management and Telemonitoring

Intravenous HEART FAILURE Medications: An Update for Home Health Clinicians

Heart Failure: An Update

Peripheral Arterial Disease and the Ankle-Brachial Index: What Home Healthcare Clinicians Need to Know

Performance Improvement in Managed Long-Term Care: Improving Warfarin Medication Management

Family Caregiver Support and Hospitalizations of Patients With Heart Failure

Oral Heart Failure Medications: AN UPDATE FOR HOME HEALTH CLINICIANS

How a Heart Failure Home Care Disease Management Program Makes a Difference

Caring for Persons with Advanced Heart Failure

The Use of Supportive-Educative and Mutual Goal-Setting Strategies to Improve Self-Management for Patients With Heart Failure

Cultural Considerations and the Hispanic Cardiac Client

Low-Technology Heart Failure Care in Home Health: Improving Patient Outcomes

PREVENTING SURGICAL-SITE INFECTIONS After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: A Guide for the Home Health Nurse

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