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. 2025 Mar 1;125(3):40-46.
doi: 10.1097/AJN.0000000000000030. Epub 2025 Feb 20.

Improving Discharge Education and Outcomes for Patients with Heart Failure

Bernice D Mowery  1 , Erin Brand, Demeke Gisila, Katie Healy, Tigist A Mannaye, Abhi Bhuvanesh, Rebecca Babb, Amanda P Bettencourt, Maureen Kirkpatrick McLaughlin, Kathleen Russell-Babin
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Improving Discharge Education and Outcomes for Patients with Heart Failure

Bernice D Mowery et al. Am J Nurs. .

Abstract

The emerging field of implementation science (IS) facilitates the sustainment of evidence-based practice in clinical care. This article, the fourth in a series on applying IS, describes how a nurse-led team at a multisite health system used IS concepts, methods, and tools to implement a discharge education bundle for patients with heart failure at two community hospitals, with the aim of decreasing readmissions and improving patient functioning and satisfaction.

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