Effects of Community Nursing Intervention on Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

Objective To explore the effects of community nursing intervention on elderly patients with chronic heart failure.Methods The 150 hospitalized patients aged 60 years or over with chronic heart failure were randomly selected as the study population were divided into the intervention group(n=72) and the control group(n=78).The intervention group were given in-hospital face-to-face nursing interventions and after-discharge phone-call ones,covering guidance on daily body mass weighing,medicine taking and therapeutic change of way of life,etc.The control group were not offered the aforementioned interventions.With their medical records during hospitalization referred to and phone calls made for relevant information about them.Then the obtained data were processed by means of t test,rank sum test and Chi-square test.Results After the nursing interventions,the readmission rate of the intervention group was markedly lower,the number of readmissions,fewer,and the duration of the hospital stay,shorter,than those of the control group(P0.05),and the self-caring ability of the former was distinctly greater(P0.05).Conclusion Community nursing intervention can enhance the self-caring ability of senior patients with chronic heart failure,reduce the number of readmissions and shorten the duration of hospital stay,and reducing the readmission rate for heart failure patients in community.