Spectrum of Heart Failure: We've Heard It All Before, Or Have We?

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

We are all accustomed to care for heart failure patients, giving their medications and wishing them well. But they come back. We need to look at the cause of their heart failure. This presentation discusses the often-over-looked issues of heart failure and explorex the multiple etiologies of heart failure (including valvular issues and metabolic diseases) and the different treatment strategies (pharmacologic and procedural) now being utilized. The 2023 updated Heart Failure Guidelines are reviewed. This session is beneficial to anyone caring for these patients. Pharmacology content = 50%

Objectives

Describe the different types and stages of heart failure.
Identify the etiologies and epidemiology of heart failure.
Differentiate the management of heart failure based on the type and cause.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.