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Improving Medication Compliances for the Elderly CHF Patient

 

            
             This paper is a research proposal with an objective to identify interventions to help home health nurses to improve medication adherence of elderly home health patients with Congestive Heart Failure. The research proposal includes a problem statement, research question, literature review, hypothesis with a description of the proposed research design, methodology, sampling, instruments, and data collection and analysis.
             Improving Medication Compliance of the Elderly CHF Home Care Patient .
             After being diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), the median survival of a male patient with CHF is 2.3 years and 1.8 years for female CHF patients (Molloy, O'Carroll, Witham, & McMurdo, 2012). According to several research articles, medication management is an important aspect of treating the CHF patient; however, medication compliance has been identified as a problem among patients with CHF even though medication compliance is a primary way to improve the patient's physiological stability, and to prevent exacerbation and rehospitalization. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide a research proposal to identify interventions for home health nurses to utilize to improve the elderly CHF patient's compliance with their medication regimen. This research proposal includes a research question, literature review, hypothesis, and a description of the proposed research design, methodology, sampling, instruments, and data collection and analysis.
             Problem Statement and Research Question.
             Problem Statement .
             Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a major diagnosis with increasing mortality and disability rates. There are approximately five million patients in the United States with the diagnosis of CHF (Paradis, Cossette, Frasure-Smith, et al, 2010). According to Li, Morrow-Howell, and Proctor (2004), medication compliance is important with preventing hospitalizations of CHF patients and needs to be emphasized throughout the CHF patients' treatment plans and reinforced continually by healthcare providers.


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