In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor and Heart
Failure and Valve Coordinator Nicole Jones, APRN, CNS, brings her
considerable expertise to the topic of Heart Failure and Transcatheter
Aortic Valve Replacement. Critical care nurses are vital to improving
patient outcomes and the delivery of quality care in patients with heart
failure, including recent emphases on the in-patient admission, faster
diagnosis of acute or decompensated heart failure, in-patient management
in an appropriate care environment, and planned discharge. In this
issue, top experts in the field provide current updates in both the
clinical care of the heart failure patient as well as nursing
interventions to improve outcomes.
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Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including patient
symptom perceptions and lay consultations prior to hospitalization
with HF and how clinicians can improve care; barriers to heart failure
treatment optimization; the role of telemedicine in improving GDMT for
heart failure patients during a pandemic; nurse-led anesthesia for
TAVR or other TAVR patient care improvements; TAVR
efficiency/screening and care pathways for improving efficiency while
maintaining outcomes; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on heart failure and transcatheter
aortic valve replacement, offering actionable insights for clinical
practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under
the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize
and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create
clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
