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Holne Care Provider strives to provide home health care professionals the most current, useful, accurate, and beneficial information possible. With this goal in mind, we feature excerpts from Mosby’s Home Health C2ietit Tea&q
Guides: Rxfor Teaching. These reproducible clipped from the magazine for use with or your personal files.
pages can be clients, clinicians,
Heart Failure: Self-Assessment Keep track of your health information. Report it to and discuss 1. Record your weight every morning, after urinating, and same or similar clothing.
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2. Report if you gain 2 pounds or more in a 24- to 48-hour period. Report weight
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3. Record your pulse every morning and any time you feel palpitations.
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4. Report more shortness of breath at night, a cough, congestion, or loss of appetite. 5. Check your skin, especially your ankles, heels, buttocks, or other bony areas that might cause pressure on your skin. Report any redness, scaling, skin breaks, or ulcers. Change your position frequently. lanolin-based lotion every 2 to 4 hours.
Massage
reddened
or scaly
skin with a
6. Report if your urine output is low. 7. Set up a regular schedule to take all your medicine to help you to remember them. Organize your medicine schedule: (a) use a calendar; (b) draw a chart with the days
of the week
and times;
or (c) buy a special
8. Record your activity and how you feel afterward.
pill box from your pharmacy. Describe your tolerance (how
much activity you can take) on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means you feel very tired or short of breath and 5 means you feel no additional symptoms. Activity you can do
Date
Activity Example:
Tolerance Fix lunch
Date
Activity
Tolerance
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Fisher ML. Managing chronic heart failure. In: Martin KS, Larson Bj, Gorski LA, Hoyko DM. Mosby’s home health client teaching guides. St. Louis: MosbK 1997. Sea IV lo p. 5.
OCTOBER
1999, VOL.
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NO.
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HOME
CARE PROVIDER
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patient
Education
Caregiver Home Care Provider strives to provide home health care professionals the most current, useful, accurate, and beneficial information possible. With this goal in mind, we feature excerpts from Mosby’s Holne Health Client Eacbing
Notebook
Resources Guides: Rxfor Tea&q. These reproducible pages can be clipped from the magazine for use with clients, clinicians, or your personal files
Medicines to Manage Heart Failure: “ACE Inhibitors” Keep track of information about your medicines. Report it to and discuss it with your nurse. Some of the medicines called ACE inhibitors are captopril (Capoten), enalapril (Vasotec), lisinopril (Prinivil or Zestril), and quinapril (Accupril). Your Medicine and Dose are: Medicine Action: Improves heart function by relaxing blood vessels. Special Considerations when you take ACE inhibitors 1. You may feel symptoms of low blood pressure. If you are lying down or sitting, it may help to rise slowly. Be sure you are not dizzy or weak before you try to stand up. This will help you protect yourself from falling. Tell your nurse about any dizziness or weakness. 2. Take your ACE inhibitor one hour before eating or as prescribed. 3. Report abnormal coughing, difficulty swallowing, or rash to your doctor immediately. 4. Other instructions Write all of your medicines
here.
Fisher ML Managing chronic heart failure. In: Martin KS, Larson Bj, Gorski LA, Hayko DM. Mosby’s home health client teaching guides. St. Louis:Mosby; 1997. Sect, IV la p. 6.
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CARE PROVIDER
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1999, VOL.
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NO.
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Caregiver
Not&oak
Resources
Holne Care Provider strives to provide home health care professionals the most current, useful, accurate, and beneficial information possible. With this goal in mind, we feature excerpts from Mosby’s Home Health C2ietit Tea&q
Guides: Rxfor Teaching. These reproducible clipped from the magazine for use with or your personal files.
pages can be clients, clinicians,
Heart Failure: Self-Assessment Keep track of your health information. Report it to and discuss 1. Record your weight every morning, after urinating, and same or similar clothing.
it with your
nurse.
before eating. Wear the
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5
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30
2. Report if you gain 2 pounds or more in a 24- to 48-hour period. Report weight
above
any
.
3. Record your pulse every morning and any time you feel palpitations.
Report
all
palpitations. 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
a
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
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28
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30
4. Report more shortness of breath at night, a cough, congestion, or loss of appetite. 5. Check your skin, especially your ankles, heels, buttocks, or other bony areas that might cause pressure on your skin. Report any redness, scaling, skin breaks, or ulcers. Change your position frequently. lanolin-based lotion every 2 to 4 hours.
Massage
reddened
or scaly
skin with a
6. Report if your urine output is low. 7. Set up a regular schedule to take all your medicine to help you to remember them. Organize your medicine schedule: (a) use a calendar; (b) draw a chart with the days
of the week
and times;
or (c) buy a special
8. Record your activity and how you feel afterward.
pill box from your pharmacy. Describe your tolerance (how
much activity you can take) on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means you feel very tired or short of breath and 5 means you feel no additional symptoms. Activity you can do
Date
Activity Example:
Tolerance Fix lunch
Date
Activity
Tolerance
3
Fisher ML. Managing chronic heart failure. In: Martin KS, Larson Bj, Gorski LA, Hoyko DM. Mosby’s home health client teaching guides. St. Louis: MosbK 1997. Sea IV lo p. 5.
OCTOBER
1999, VOL.
4
NO.
5
HOME
CARE PROVIDER
19 1
-______A
patient
Education
Caregiver Home Care Provider strives to provide home health care professionals the most current, useful, accurate, and beneficial information possible. With this goal in mind, we feature excerpts from Mosby’s Holne Health Client Eacbing
Notebook
Resources Guides: Rxfor Tea&q. These reproducible pages can be clipped from the magazine for use with clients, clinicians, or your personal files
Medicines to Manage Heart Failure: “ACE Inhibitors” Keep track of information about your medicines. Report it to and discuss it with your nurse. Some of the medicines called ACE inhibitors are captopril (Capoten), enalapril (Vasotec), lisinopril (Prinivil or Zestril), and quinapril (Accupril). Your Medicine and Dose are: Medicine Action: Improves heart function by relaxing blood vessels. Special Considerations when you take ACE inhibitors 1. You may feel symptoms of low blood pressure. If you are lying down or sitting, it may help to rise slowly. Be sure you are not dizzy or weak before you try to stand up. This will help you protect yourself from falling. Tell your nurse about any dizziness or weakness. 2. Take your ACE inhibitor one hour before eating or as prescribed. 3. Report abnormal coughing, difficulty swallowing, or rash to your doctor immediately. 4. Other instructions Write all of your medicines
here.
Fisher ML Managing chronic heart failure. In: Martin KS, Larson Bj, Gorski LA, Hayko DM. Mosby’s home health client teaching guides. St. Louis:Mosby; 1997. Sect, IV la p. 6.
192 HOME
CARE PROVIDER
OCTOBER
1999, VOL.
4
NO.
5