Health Professional Patient Education

Introduction

Patient education is one of the most important functions of our heart failure clinics. This education comes from all members of the multidisciplinary clinic team responsible for your care and is ongoing.

This section presents a brief overview of state-of-the-art clinical information for health professionals who care for health failure patients. There are six (6) educational sections. You may use this section as a review for yourself prior to patient teaching. In additional, the eight (8) patient information sections allow you to teach directly from the pages.

Members of CHFN may wish to use the information provided as a reference tool and use a flip chart or other medium to share the information with patients and their families. The patient information sheets are also supplied as information pads that are numbered for each section/topic. Members may distribute the sheets following each educational intervention: