Date of Conferral

4-21-2025

Date of Award

April 2025

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Melissa Rouse

Abstract

Successful management of heart failure, a chronic condition that progressively worsens over time, can be clinically challenging, expensive, and time-consuming. Heart failure can be managed with suitable treatment modalities to sustain full and active lifestyles for patients. It is essential to provide evidence-based education to nurses to support patients diagnosed with heart failure and improve patient outcomes. Bedside nurses are ideally placed to positively impact patients’ ability to care for themselves when diagnosed with heart failure by providing a high-quality, evidence-informed education. This project focused on evaluating nurses’ confidence and knowledge about heart failure, providing heart failure education, and reevaluating the impact of the education provided. The participants (n = 28) completed pre/posttests comprising a 22-item, Likert instrument for confidence and a 20-item true (yes)/false (no) survey on heart failure knowledge. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the results. There was a 24.92% (p < .001) increase in participants’ confidence level after receiving the targeted education. The confidence score was 2.625 (11.93%) pretest and 2.859 (12.99%) posttest. The difference in knowledge between the pre and posttest was less significant. The knowledge score was 1.692 (8.46%) pretest and 1.750 (8.75%) posttest (p = .473). This project enhances the quality of heart failure patients’ care by empowering nurses to confidently educate these patients and potentially reduce readmissions within the first 30 days post-discharge. The findings showed that nurses’ confidence and knowledge about heart failure improved significantly when they received targeted education. This project drives positive social change by boosting nurses’ confidence and ability to educate their patients effectively.

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