Document Type
DNP Project
Publication Date
4-2022
Degree Name
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Faculty Advisor
Rosemary Johnson, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC
Practice Mentor
Christine Cosgrove, MSN, APRN, ANP-BC
Abstract
Significance and Background: According to the Health Resources & Services Administration (2021), health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to process and understand basic health information to make appropriate health decisions. Low health literacy is prevalent in populations such as older adults, minorities, and in individuals with lower socioeconomic status and living in medical underserved areas. Recommendations are to access health literacy in cardiac patients, especially in the acute care setting to improve health outcomes upon discharge.
Purpose: To determine whether a health literacy assessment in hospitalized congested heart failure patients, before discharge, will affect referral rates to the Center for Advanced Heart Failure and Pulmonary Vascular Disease (the Center) and decrease 30-day readmissions rates over a 60-day period.
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Recommended Citation
Surprenant, D. M. (2022). Improving heart failure patient referrals to the Center for Advanced Heart Failure & Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Hartford Hospital: A quality improvement project [Unpublished DNP project]. Sacred Heart University.
Comments
A DNP Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Nursing Practice, Sacred Heart University Davis & Henley College of Nursing.