Caregiver Training Videos

Living with Heart Failure Module 4: Putting It All Together

Written by mmLearn.org | March 24, 2016

 In Living with Heart Failure Module 4: Putting It All Together, Beverly Tuomala, BSN, RN, CHFN, Heart Failure Nurse recaps the other three modules: Identifying the Problem, Medications and Therapies, Sodium/Fluid Restrictions and gives you practical ways to improve compliance when living with heart failure. Including: 

  • The Importance of Written Schedules and Weighing Daily
  • Medication Tips 
  • Practical Ways to Reduce Demands on the Heart 
  • Balancing Exercise and Rest: How do you know if you are doing too much or too little?

Over 5.1 million people currently have heart failure. It is an extremely costly and difficult disease to manage. Once diagnosed someone with heart failure will require lifelong therapy such as medications, diet change and often lifestyle modifications.

Living with Heart Failure:

Module 1: Identifying the Problem
Module 2: Medications and Therapies
Module 3: Sodium/Fluid Restriction