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Hello! My name is Lauren Hammell and I am currently in my second year in Drexel's Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program. I graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) in 2015. I began my career on a cardiac telemetry and stroke unit where I found my passion for cardiology. Today I work in the medical intensive care unit at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ, which is a specialty center that focuses on cardiac, vascular and lung disease. In general, nurses and especially practitioners, are required to educate patients, their family members, and other medical staff. Understanding the neuroscience of learning allows me to adjust the manner in which I educate in order for my patients, their family members, and medical staff to effectively learn and comprehend the information being taught.

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Heart failure is a chronic, progressive disease that effects 5.7 million adults and children in the United States alone. Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the demands of the body. In some cases, the heart is unable to completely fill and in other cases the heart is simply not strong enough to pump blood to the rest of the body. In either instance, heart failure is a condition that requires patients, their family members, and medical staff, to have a clear understanding of the disease process and how to manage heart failure. Typically, patients diagnosed with heart failure are taught about the disease process and management very briefly. The reality is that heart failure is the number one cause of hospital readmissions. Seemingly, patients and their family members are not completely comprehending this chronic disease process. Clearly, discharge education and a brief conversation at the bedside or in the office is not sufficient. Although there are heart failure support groups, none of these groups truly test the knowledge being taught. Moreover, many people are unable to attend heart failure support groups, workshops, or lectures due to lack of transportation or failing health. A four-week online course will be moderated by a registered nurse who either has a strong background in heart failure, critical care experience and/or telemetry. The course can help patients and their family members to learn about the disease process and management of heart failure from their own home or on the go. The course aims to provide patients with the education needed and will evaluate their understanding of heart failure utilizing technology and neuroscience learning.

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Heart Failure Explained Clearly - Remastered

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Type of Course & Description of Learners

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Type of Course & Description of Learners

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Four-week online course moderated by a registered nurse with a strong background in heart failure, telemetry, and/or critical care.

The online heart failure course is geared toward educating patients, patients' family members, and medical staff. The course will use a variety of modalities to accommodate learners of:

Various ages

Various learning modalities to accommodate the learning preferences of the participants

Diverse educational backgrounds

Differing geographic location

Instead of utilizing VARK learning styles, there will be emphasis on Kolb's theory of experiential learning.

Converging

Diverging

Assimilating

Accommodating

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Utilize different teaching methods and technology in order to improve patient, family, and staff understanding of the disease process and management of heart failure over a four week period.

The goal for this course is educate patients, family members, and medical staff about heart failure and evaluate their understanding of the disease process and management in order to promote positive outcomes, better quality of life, knowledge-based decision making, and decreased hospitalizations.

The course will initially focus on lower order thinking skills and by the end of the workshop attendees will be able to demonstrate higher order thinking skills.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to

Explain the heart failure

Identify strategies to reduce heart failure exacerbation that may or may not lead to hospitalization (such as lifestyle modification, cessation of tobacco use, compliance with medication management, adherence to 2 gm low sodium and low cholesterol diet, and restricting daily fluid intake to no more than 1,500 mLs per day).

Identify when participants should notify their practitioner of symptoms (such as, gaining more than 2-3 pounds in one day, gaining more than 5 pounds in one week, increased swelling in upper or lower extremities, increased shortness of breath, dyspnea on exertion, chest pain, chest discomfort, and/or palpitations).

Identify when participants should seek immediately medical attention

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Weekly pre-test to assess participants' current knowledge of heart failure

Weekly lecture materials including pre-recorded lectures, videos, articles, interactive applications, and PowerPoints.

Weekly open-book quiz to aid in learning and memory while assessing participants' knowledge of material presented, which will be graded by the registered nurse moderating the course.

Weekly discussion board posts to encourage participants to interact with one another, ask questions, and provide feedback to enhance learning and understanding of material.

Weekly journal entries to promote self-efficacy, which will be managed by the registered nurse moderating the course. The registered nurse will also provide feedback to the participants' weekly journal entries.

Final project which can be a powerpoint presentation, E-poster, brochure, or a picture of a poster made at home that briefly describes the disease process and how to properly manage heart failure with lifestyle modification, drug therapy, etc. The project will be graded by the registered nurse moderating the course to assess effectiveness of learning.

Final quiz to assess and evaluate the participants' comprehension by the end of the four week course and will be graded by the registered nurse managing the course.

Certificate of completion of course will be distributed to participants, by the course moderator, who successfully demonstrate knowledge and management of heart failure.

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Strategies to Support Inclusion and Self-Efficacy

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Strategies to Support Inclusion and Self-Efficacy

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Discussion boards

Journal entries

Final project

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Edmodo to be used as a virtual online classroom that can aid in providing lecture materials, quizzes, discussion boards, weekly journal entries, and submission of final project

Discussion board (via Edmodo)

Zoom Room to be used for live lectures

PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, Padlet may be used to complete final project. Attendees are encouraged to use some type of technology platform of their choice for final project but may create physical a poster or brochure and upload it as a picture onto Edmodo.

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The registered nurse moderating the course will be able to assess the effectiveness of the participants' knowledge of and management of heart failure by:

Assessing participant participation in weekly discussion boards and weekly journal entries.

Evaluate effectiveness based on weekly open-book test scores, final test scores, and accuracy of final project.

A certificate of completion of course will be distributed to participants who have participated in course and have  a final grade of at least an 80%.

Participants who do not achieve at least an 80% will be encouraged to take the course again in order to gain more knowledge and understanding of the disease process of heart failure and the management of heart failure.

Participants in the course will be encouraged to complete anonymous course evaluations in order for the moderator to assess the effectiveness of the course from the learners' perspective and make the necessary changes to enhance learning in future courses.

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Experiential Learning: How We All Learn Naturally