Date of Award
4-2016
Degree Name
Nursing (D.N.P.)
Department
College of Nursing
First Advisor
Cynthia Beel-Bates
Second Advisor
Cynthia McCurren
Third Advisor
Simin Beg
Abstract
Cardiovascular disease is a significant health issue in the US as it is the leading cause of death and most cited reason of hospitalizations in Medicare enrollees (Centers for Disease Control, 2014; Unroe et al., 2011). The American Colleges of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Guidelines recommend palliative care for all patients with heart failure (Yancy et al., 2013). The purpose of the scholarly project was to address the gaps in current practice by creating a standardized palliative care referral process and education for clinicians in an outpatient Advanced Congestive Heart Failure (ACHF) Clinic. A referral tracking process was defined, a pre-test and post-test were used as measures for the education, a referral process was outlined, and the number of palliative care referrals increased from 0.6% to 1.4% during the project work.
ScholarWorks Citation
Cardosa, Rachel E., "A Standardized Palliative Care Referral Workflow and Educational In-Service at an Outpatient Congestive Heart Failure Clinic" (2016). Doctoral Projects. 1.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/kcon_doctoralprojects/1
