Question

Describe essential focused assessments used by the home care nurse for patients with heart failure.

Answer 1

Answer: Patient with heart failure needs more careful and intensive care. The assessment includes the recording the pulse rate regularly as well as monitoring the heart rate. The diet of the patient should be cholestrol free as well as food intake should be more adequate. Chest pain-assess location, if it occurs, its intensity, type, duration, with or without exertion should be assessed properly. And also associated symptoms such as breathlessness, sweating, nausea, palpitations, anxiety or any other symptoms should be reported as soon as possible.