The Role of Nurse Practitioners in the Management of Heart Failure Patients and Programs.

Purpose Of Review: The goal of this paper is to highlight the multifaceted approach heart failure (HF) nurse practitioners (NPs) use to manage patients. We were seeking to answer if NPs have the scope of clinical skills to manage the complexity of HF patients.

Recent Findings: NP care in HF has been shown to reduce readmissions, improve timeliness of visits, decrease cost, and improve quality outcomes in small heterogeneous studies.

Compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress in heart and vascular nurses.

Objectives for this project were to determine the prevalence of compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout, and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in heart and vascular nurses to confirm whether differences exist between intensive care and intermediate care nurses. The Professional Quality of Life Scale Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue: Version 5 developed by Stamm (2009) was used. Results showed that nurses who work in the heart and vascular intermediate care unit had average to high scores of CS, low to average levels of burnout, and low to average levels of STS.