Heart Failure Advanced Nurse
CurrentMy interest within heart failure nursing had developed during my role as a cardiac rehabilitation specialist nurse. Through mostly self-guided learning, I have been able to effectively teach and support patients who are learning to manage their condition within a heart failure workshop; patients are given the opportunity to take some time within a group setting to discuss the self-management of their condition, further exploring both the physiological and psychological impact of heart failure. Through patient feedback and reflection, I have tailored my practice to focus nursing care delivery towards the individual person rather than facilitating nursing education which focuses uniquely upon heart failure classification and management.Heart failure management is much more of a continued individual nurse and patient partnership and in fulfilling the main duties and responsibilities of a heart failure specialist nurse, I consider my experience and development over the last ten years, both professionally and personally, to have provided me with the skills to perform this nursing role successfully in order to continually deliver a high standard of specialised nursing care provision.I consider my nursing development and experience during the differing stages of a patient’s cardiac journey have provided the opportunity to transfer my nursing expertise to build upon specialised heart failure nursing which importantly should be based upon effective communication and respect in order to deliver individualised professional nursing care provision. Having had the opportunity to develop my nursing career both within acute setting and then to support a patient with long term management of their cardiac health, my heart failure nursing role is an opportunity to demonstrate and value my own good interpersonal skills and organisational ability, working well both as a team member and leading independently as an autonomous practitioner
