Supporting Hope in Congestive Heart Failure Patients
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
- Vol. 16 (2) , 65-78
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003465-199703000-00002
Abstract
Critically ill patients want to maintain hope in their life. The need for hope and a sense of hopefulness does not end when the patient is hospitalized. The nursing diagnosis of hopelessness is common for many critical care patients, and especially cardiac problems such as congestive heart failure. These author describe a model of hopelessness that suggests strategies for increasing the patient's sense of hope.Keywords
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