The diagnosis of heart failure can create challenges to understanding the disease process and how choices in self-care regimen can affect ones self-care regimen. Heart failure is caused by structural and functional defects in myocardium that results in impairment of ventricular filling or the ejection of blood with the most common cause is reduced left ventricular myocardial function. Heart failure can also be the result of the dysfunction of the pericardium, myocardium, endocardium, heart valves or great vessels alone or in combination (Inamdar, & Inamdar, 2016).
Nearly 90 million Americans lack the required health literacy skills to care for themselves. Patients must understand the health information, which requires health literacy that …show more content…
Low health literacy can cause those affected to be at a disadvantage because there is no clear definition. Caring for one self is important to improve heart failure symptoms and understanding the heart failure diagnosis. Providing educational material that is simple to understand and easy to follow can bring the gap of health literacy. Health literacy is the responsibility of health systems, which sets the parameters of the health interaction and content, style and mode of information (Adam, 2010). The purpose of the study is to evaluate the health failure video book, which will provide the effective education tools to improve the quality of service provided at the Via Christi Heart Failure Management Program. The study is to obtain feedback regarding the quality of services that decreases readmissions, inform patients of the disease process through education provided at the hospitals heart failure disease management program. The study will include a video book, heart failure zone handout, and heart care handout, dealing with heart failure booklet, daily weight log and video book
Nearly 90 million Americans lack the required health literacy skills to care for themselves. Patients must understand the health information, which requires health literacy that …show more content…
Low health literacy can cause those affected to be at a disadvantage because there is no clear definition. Caring for one self is important to improve heart failure symptoms and understanding the heart failure diagnosis. Providing educational material that is simple to understand and easy to follow can bring the gap of health literacy. Health literacy is the responsibility of health systems, which sets the parameters of the health interaction and content, style and mode of information (Adam, 2010). The purpose of the study is to evaluate the health failure video book, which will provide the effective education tools to improve the quality of service provided at the Via Christi Heart Failure Management Program. The study is to obtain feedback regarding the quality of services that decreases readmissions, inform patients of the disease process through education provided at the hospitals heart failure disease management program. The study will include a video book, heart failure zone handout, and heart care handout, dealing with heart failure booklet, daily weight log and video book