Annotated Bibliography for NRS 2806: Heart Failure Patient Care

This annotated bibliography, prepared for a nursing course, examines three research articles related to heart failure management and patient care. The assignment includes an annotated bibliography summarizing the selected articles, a justification for their selection based on evidence-based practice, and recommendations for patient care and clinical practice. The student analyzed research focusing on interventions, self-care, psychological aspects, and outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure, using the PRISMA guidelines and data from multiple databases. The selected articles provide insights into the effectiveness of psychological interventions, understanding of illness, and the importance of self-care education for patients. Recommendations include enhancing patient education, adopting advanced hospital technologies, and improving patient accommodations to provide better healthcare services. The student emphasizes the role of nurses in educating patients about self-care and the significance of qualitative research in understanding heart failure cases.

Annotated Bibliography
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Part 1
Buck, H. G., Stromberg, A., Chung, M. L., Donovan, K. A., Harkness, K., Howard, A. M., Kato,
N., Polo, R., & Evangelista, L. S. (2018, 2018/01/01/). A systematic review of heart failure
dyadic self-care interventions focusing on intervention components, contexts, and outcomes.
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 77, 232-242.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.10.007
This paper has focused on examining components, outcomes and context of dyadic self-care
interventions. A systematic literature review has been provided in the paper based on the
PRISMA guidelines. Data sources have been taken from PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of
science, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Heart failure has been a
common phenomenon in worldwide. However, heart failure self-care has been an important fact
in improving heart failure conditions. This paper has helped in understanding several conditions
in order to manage heart failure cases in the society. The evidence of dyadic interventions in
heart failures have been less. This paper has helped in analyzing previous papers based on the
heart failure cases. There have been mixed interventions in reviewing the current assets I the
heart failure cases (Buck et al., 2018). There has been requirement of change in design for better
intervention of the heart failure cases. Several innovative solutions have been described for
increasing recruitment of dyads and decreasing attrition in mixed methods for creating more
holistic picture of effects and implementing successful intervention.
Im, J., Mak, S., Upshur, R., Steinberg, L., & Kuluski, K. (2019). 'The Future is Probably Now':
Understanding of illness, uncertainty and end
‐of
‐life discussions in older adults with heart

failure and family caregivers. Health Expectations, 22(6), 1331-1340.
https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12980
This paper has helped in exploring patients and healthcare providers understanding of illness and
experiences of uncertainty in the healthcare providers. This paper has helped in maintaining
keen approach in the dependency of the perceptions and interpretive descriptive qualitative study
of older adults in the society. There are 12 semi structured interviews conducted with 19
participants in Ontario, Canada. The illness have been shaped by the participants in order to
maintain a keen parching the dependency of the heart failure diseases. Participants have been
knowledgeable of heart failure management (Im et al., 2019). However, there have been
limitation in their understanding about consequences of illness. Participants have been adapted to
their challenges that appear in influencing their connecting manifestation of heart failure. This
paper has helped in getting a detailed information of heart failure causes and translating their
consequences in illness. The ability of adapting their illness program has been depicted in the
paper. This paper has helped in getting a future perspective of work in the case of heart failure
cases. The future work will depend on acknowledging more advanced technologies in improving
heart failure cases.
Jiang, Y., Shorey, S., Seah, B., Chan, W. X., Tam, W. W. S., & Wang, W. (2018, 2018/02/01/).
The effectiveness of psychological interventions on self-care, psychological and health outcomes
in patients with chronic heart failure—A systematic review and meta-analysis. International
Journal of Nursing Studies, 78, 16-25.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.08.006
This paper has discussed about determining psychological interventions on self-care and health
outcomes with chronic heart failure cases. This paper describes about several steps to be taken

for getting a self-care in case of heart failure. This paper has evaluated effectiveness of random
controlled trials with the help of psychological methods on self-care behaviors and depression
levels. Several journals based in the research topic has been searched for getting more data
related to the heart failure cases. The main agenda of the paper is to self-education regarding
heart failure cases. There are total of 29 articles including 25 studies with 3837 participants
included in this study (Jiang et al., 2018). Healthcare professionals play an important role in
educating patients regarding self-care in the heart failure cases. It has been important to educate
patients related to self-care during a heart failure case. The findings of those study has provided
evidences related to beneficial effects of psychological interventions of self-care and HRQL.
Part 2
The above three journals have been selected for this report as they have been related to the heart
failure cases. These papers have been focused in the intervention the heart failure cases among
adults. The use of these papers have bene helping in gaining various opportunities in
maintaining keen approach in the heart failure cases. These papers have focused on
psychological intervention of heart failure cases (Ponikowski et al., 2016). The third paper has
helped in understanding importance of self-care of patients in the society. This case study of
John who is a 80 years old overweight man has been recognized with oedema and tachycardia.
He has been diagnosed with chronic heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and
hypertension. Therefore, this case has been related to the excessive hypertension case (Fisher et
al., 2016). This has been leading to chronic heart failure in this stage. These papers have studied
several such cases with a lot of participants. These participant have been of different age groups.
Therefore, these papers have the ability to diagnose such cases in better way. These papers have
bene helping in maintaining keen approach in the decency of the psychological behavior of a

patient to heart attacks. These papers have focused on chronic heart failures with several other
researchers studied in due course. In case of john, he has suffering from short breath which led to
more unwell. Therefore, these papers have helped in studying these cases which led to chronic
heart failure. These papers have provided recommendation to be safe from such failures (Dick &
Epelman, 2016). These papers suggested that self-care has been theist important part of curing
HF cases. Nurses have been close to such patients and they should educate them with self-care
education. Self-care has been prioritized in these papers in order to maintain a proper health.
Qualitative studies have been done with numerous participants which have helped in gaining
more knowledge in a proper way. Interpretative qualitative research has been maintained in these
papers. This have helped in understanding basic facts related to heart failure cases. This paper
has helped in investigating patients and medicinal services suppliers comprehension of sickness
and encounters of vulnerability in the human services suppliers (Sager et al., 2016). This paper
has helped in keeping up sharp methodology in the reliance of the recognitions and interpretive
clear subjective investigation of more established grown-ups in the general public. There are 12
semi organized meetings directed with 19 members in Ontario, Canada. The sickness have been
molded by the members so as to keep up a sharp drying the reliance of the cardiovascular
breakdown infections. Members have been learned of cardiovascular breakdown the board. Be
that as it may, there have been constraint in their comprehension about results of sickness.
Members have been adjusted to their difficulties that show up in impacting their interfacing
appearance of cardiovascular breakdown. This paper has helped in getting a definite data of
cardiovascular breakdown causes and deciphering their results in sickness. The capacity of
adjusting their ailment program has been delineated in the paper (van Veldhuisen et al., 2017).
This paper has helped in getting a future point of view of work on account of cardiovascular

breakdown cases. The future work will rely upon recognizing further developed innovations in
improving cardiovascular breakdown cases. This paper has examined about deciding mental
intercessions on self-care and wellbeing results with interminable cardiovascular breakdown
cases. This paper portrays around a few stages to be taken for getting a self-care in the event of
cardiovascular breakdown. This paper has assessed adequacy of irregular controlled
preliminaries with the assistance of mental techniques on self-care practices and discouragement
levels. A few diaries situated in the exploration subject has been scanned for getting more
information identified with the cardiovascular breakdown cases (Crowley et al., 2017). The
primary motivation of the paper is to self-instruction with respect to cardiovascular breakdown
cases. There are aggregate of 29 s incorporating 25 investigations with 3837 members
remembered for this examination. Human services experts assume a significant job in instructing
patients with respect to self-care in the cardiovascular breakdown cases. Medical attendants have
been expressed as significant in giving HF training to patients as they are more in contact with
patients (Crowley et al., 2018). The outcomes have helped in massing the fundamental driver of
cardiovascular breakdown cases and instruction identified with this cases. It has been imperative
to instruct patients identified with self-care during a cardiovascular breakdown case. The
discoveries of those investigation has given confirmations identified with valuable impacts of
mental mediations of self-care and HRQL.
Part 3
There are several recommendations gathered from these papers:
 Enhancing Self education of patients: Self education of patients might help in providing
better healthcare services to them. Nurses need to provide patients with extra knowledge
of their health and how they can improve their health by themselves.

 Adopting better research department in hospitals: Utilization of advanced technology in
the hospitals might help in providing better quality of healthcare services. Advanced
technologies can be utilized with the help of better research and development team in the
hospitals. They need to provide better services with the help of their researches in the
lab. This will help in providing better opportunities in the field of healthcare services.
 Better accommodations of patients in hospitals: Nurses have been stated as important in
providing HF education to patients as they are more in contact with patients. The results
have helped in massing the main causes of heart failure cases and education related to
this cases. Patients need to be provided with quality bed and services quality the hospital.
Better accommodation will help patients for getting a quality care services in the
hospitals and the recovery rate will be higher in these cases.

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