Heart Failure Patient Education:
Handouts for your Patients
The Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association has developed this series of Heart Failure patient education materials and handouts for nurses and other health care providers to use with patients.
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Fact Sheets: Enjoying Life While Managing Heart Failure
Give your patients with heart failure the critical information they need at discharge from the hospital with these patient education handouts. Try this modular approach to educating patients on the “need-to-knows” in a format that can be provided in stages and supplemented with take-home fact sheets.
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Click on the title of each tool below to download the sheet separately. Free to download (login required).
Online Interactive Patient Guide: Enjoying Life While Manager Heart Failure
Share this educational resource to help your heart failure patients navigate their overwhelming and confusing diagnosis. This mobile-first online resource provides patients with the critical information they need in a modular, more patient-friendly approach. Topics covered include:
- Diagnosis
- Treatments and Medicines
- Managing emotions
- Exercising
- Reducing sodium
- Additional resources
English
Spanish
Funded through an independent educational grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and and Merck Sharpe & Dohme LLC (content only).
Funded through an educational grant from: Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, and AstraZeneca.
Kidney and Heart Health Screening Tool
Identify heart failure patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) with this four-page screening tool. The questionnaire focuses on risk factors for CKD, educates patients on connections between kidney and heart health, and helps patients develop an action plan.
This tool can be used in either clinical or outreach settings.
Funded through an educational grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Heart Failure: What You Need to Know
This tool is a folded 11x17 sheet, intended to be used in the transition from hospital to home. It can be used either on its own or as a cover for one or more of PCNA’s other printed heart failure sheets.
English
Free to download (login required)
$0 members/$25 non-members
25 folded sheets per order
Spanish
Free to download (login required)
$0 members/$25 non-members
25 folded sheets per order
Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery of any printed materials.
Disclaimer: This and other PCNA educational materials are for information purposes only and are not intended to replace medical advice or diagnose or treat health problems. Health-related decisions should be made in partnership with a healthcare provider. It is the reader's responsibility to seek out the most current, accurate information.