Hospital nurses' comfort in and frequency of delivering heart failure self-care education.

Background: Nurses are expected to deliver pre-discharge heart failure education in 8 content areas: what heart failure means, medications, diet, activity, weight monitoring, fluid restriction, signs/symptoms of worsening condition and signs/symptoms of fluid overload.

Aims: To examine nurses' comfort in and frequency of delivering heart failure education to hospitalized patients.

Methods: A multicenter, descriptive, correlational design and questionnaire methods were used.