Advanced Practice Topic Paper

Decide on the advanced practice topic that you will use for your critical literature review (see syllabus for details). Describe why you have chosen this topic and post the question that will drive your critical literature review. Attach one primary research article that relates to this topic. Here are some examples of questions relating to advanced practice nursing: 1) What are best practices used by the APN in the Treatment of Pediatric Asthma and the Improvement in the Outcome of Care? 2) What can the APN do to Decrease Re-admission Rates of Patients Discharged after Treatment for Heart Failure? 3) What are the Effects of an Advanced Practice Nurse-Directed Heart Failure Program? NOTE: If you are in the nursing administration track, you should choose a topic that relates to a quality improvement project, patient safety project, or a new protocol, practice, or program that you are interested in. *** This is a \”work in progress\” week! If your CLR topic is exactly like a peer topic, we will need to adjust both topics enough to allow for separation, as you will be posting articles each week related to your topic. If two students are doing the same research, the CLR becomes a \”group project\” – and that\’s not going to work!! Once your CLR question is accepted, you must consult with the professor to change it my choice number 2 for my CLR topic Advanced Practice Topic Paper

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The advanced practice topic that I have specifically chosen is “The role of the APN in decreasing re-admission rates of patients discharged after heart failure treatment. “ I chose this topic because heart failure is a rising healthcare challenge and one of the common causes of readmissions and hospitalizations (Murtaugh et al., 2017; Ziaeian & Fonarow, 2016). Therefore, reducing readmissions of heart failure patients is a growing concern for APNS. I also chose this topic because finding out evidence-based interventions that APNs can implement to decrease the readmissions rates really enthuses me, and I am interested in understanding efficient inpatient education that will assist in reducing readmission rates of heart failure patients for them to enhance their self-care, as well as their quality of life. Advanced Practice Topic Paper

The PICO question that will drive my critical literature review is “What can the APN do to Decrease Re-admission Rates of Patients Discharged after Treatment for Heart Failure?”

Population: patients aged 18 to 65years who will revisit the facility after discharge, particularly those who suffer from heart failure.

Intervention: the intervention that will be applied in this research is making APNs primary educators who will educate heart failure patients on ways of managing their condition after leaving the healthcare facility. Advanced Practice Topic Paper

Comparison: the control group that will be used in this research comprises normal adult group with no heart failure problem.

Outcome: cognitive approaches, along with behavioral assessment tool will be utilized to measure the outcome and establish if there is a decrease in readmission rates among patients suffering from heart failure.

References

Murtaugh, C. M., Deb, P., Zhu, C., Peng, T. R., Barrón, Y., Shah, S., … & Siu, A. L. (2017). Reducing readmissions among heart failure patients discharged to home health care: Effectiveness of early and intensive nursing services and early physician follow‐up. Health services research, 52(4), 1445-1472.

Ziaeian, B., &, G. C. (2016). The prevention of hospital readmissions in heart failure. Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 58(4), 379-385. Advanced Practice Topic Paper