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This quality improvement evidence-based project will be to determine if implementing a HF education in a house call setting will improve self-care behavior and management of HF and, in turn, reduce hospital readmissions.

The Intervention will be to implement a HF prevention protocol using the Zoon and HF Path Heart Failure self-management education Tool.

Clinical Question

Will the implementation of a heart failure prevention protocol encompassing staff training and education reduce the number of hospital readmissions in a house call practice? 

The question that will be answered by this project:
P: The population is the nursing staff.
I: The Intervention will be to Implement an evidenced-based standardized heart failure protocol that uses staff education, discharge planning, medication management, and telephone follow-up.
C: A comparison of the number of patient readmission before and after implementation of the protocol.

O: Reduction of heart failure readmission in a house call practice.

Topic: Self-Management Heart Failure Education in a House Call Setting

• Introduction and Background:
• 1.  State the problem and hypothesis.
• Clear description of the problem to be studied.
• Succinct background and rationale addressing the problem and the need to conduct the project including references.
• B.  Specific Aims/Study Objectives:
• 1.  List the purpose(s) of the study (What you are hoping to learn or discover as a result of the study?).

• Statement of the purpose of the project.

Detailed project methodology:  This is often a problem area in student submissions.  Be sure to identify your specific design (e.g. quasi-experimental, cohort model) and describe your intervention in detail (step-by-step).  If, for example, conducting an educational intervention be sure to include a detailed content outline and any handouts as a supplementary submission file.

 Describe how you will analyze your data; describe the analysis type and procedures including statistics and scientific or scholarly justification for the use of these analyses—be specific.

• Identify your target population for the project.  Be sure to include who is eligible to participate (inclusion criteria) and who is not eligible (exclusion criteria).  Describe how subjects will be recruited, what the “subject burden” of participation will be and include any recruitment flyers or announcements that will be used.
• Include any and all instruments, surveys, or forms that subjects will be asked to complete.  If the instruments are in the public domain and free to use and/or modify, provide documentation of this.  If approval to use or modify is required from the author, you must obtain this in writing and include the approval.  Finally, if instruments are published, include any validity and reliability information available on the instrument(s).
• Describe the risks and benefits of the study.  All research has “some risk”, though it may be minimal.  For very benign projects, subject burden and possible mild psychological distress from completing instruments should be noted.  If it is possible that more serious distress can occur, you must describe in detail how this will be handled (e.g. debriefing, counseling) and by whom.
• Confidentiality must be clearly addressed in the application:  Where will subject data be stored?  Who will have access to the data?  Typically, data should be securely stored for 3 years.  If de-identification of subjects is needed, this should be described in detail.  De-identification rosters must also be securely stored but must be kept separate from the data.

All guidelines strictly followed. This is a DNP Proposal