Eliciting the educational priorities of home care workers caring for adults with heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although home care workers (HCWs) are increasingly caring for adults with heart failure (HF), many feel unprepared and lack HF training. To serve as the foundation for a future educational intervention, we aimed to elicit HCWs' HF educational needs.

Methods

We partnered with the largest healthcare union in the US to recruit 41 HCWs employed by 17 home care agencies. Using the nominal group technique, we asked HCWs to respond to three questions: When caring for an HF patient: (1) What information do you want? (2) What symptoms worry you? (3) What situations do you struggle with? Participants ranked their responses by priority. Data were consolidated by question.

Results

For question 1, participants ranked HF signs and symptoms most highly, foll

SUBMITTER: Leung PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855568 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature