Teaching Plan for CHF and CKD Patients

Teaching Plan for CHF and CKD Patients
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Abstract
Teaching patients how to manage their chronic diseases helps reduce extended inpatient stays at hospitals. Chronic heart failure (CHF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are common in ageing adults causing a significant number of admissions in hospitals. CKD is the condition where the kidneys are unable to remove some of the waste products and excess fluid from the bloodstream. This teaching plan educates patients on how to monitor fluid uptake and waste removal from their bodies. Therefore, a patient’s knowledge and understanding of their condition and the necessary steps towards their stability is essential. Health care professionals such as nurses and doctors, therefore, need to train patients with CKD and CHF on how to care for themselves to ensure they manage their conditions as discussed in this paper. However, nurses have to formulate a teaching plan determining the aspects which patients need to know and those which are difficult to comprehend. Survival skills such as physiology and administration of medication are the most important things a patient needs to know to be able to take care of themselves. However, eating habits such as during holidays and cooking ideas are also a necessary part of the training needed to ensure the safety of the patient in their times of happiness. Evaluation is also required through clinical checkups by specialist doctors.
Keywords: chronic kidney disease, heart failure, stability

Teaching Plan for CHF and CKD Patients
Identifying the goal of a teaching session is the beginning of creating an effective teaching plan. The primary objective is to instruct patients with chronic heart failure and chronic kidney disease on reaching and preserving the patients’ clinical stability. The first step is an assessment of the state of the patient. The trainer will give the patients a brief overview of both CKD and CHF, their symptoms and how they can be controlled. Also, the trainer will teach the patients how to assess the normal functioning of their heart and kidney. The aim is to prevent the CKD and CHF from progressing to complete heart failure or complete kidney failure by controlling the underlying causes. The trainer needs to inform the patients how to do self-tests, record the results and interpret them correctly.
While managing CKD, hydration and fluid intake are critical in preventing progression (Gerber et al., 2015). The patient needs to know how to control their glucose levels as well as drink fluids frequently. Proper handling of the medications and testing kits are some of the things a trainer needs to inform the patients. On the other hand, CHF patients’ weight and decompensation symptoms monitoring are necessary to avoid complete heart failure (Ong et al., 2016). Similarly, the teacher needs to include recommendations for physical activity such as exercise and work as well as educate the patients on the use of medication.
Having a well-planned diet and the right physical activity may not entirely avoid CHF. Similarly, the proper fluid intakes and glucose level management may not prevent the patient from getting a CKD. Therefore, evaluation is necessary to be sure the patients need to visit their doctor for close monitoring of their conditions regularly. Regular visits to the hospital will ensure that their status does not get worse and result to complete failure.

References
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