Presentation Example: Congestive Heart Failure

Who is the specific audience?

The ideal audience for this presentation would be patients suffering from Congestive Heart Failure. The audience would include between ages 45-65 including elderly patients suffering from Heart Failure. Hospital personnel will also be included.

Why is your topic significant for the specific target audience? The disease has been the cause for hospitalization of persons over the age of 65 years hence the cause for close to one million admissions to hospitals in the year 2000 in the US (American Heart Association [AHA], 2002). The disease has increased as a result in the rise of the elderly people in the society.

Introduction:

Audience Hook

Approximately five millions Americans suffer from Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), and according to the statistics from Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nearly 550,000 cases are reported every year.

Thesis Statement

Congestive Heart Failure has higher readmission rate. Research shows that 27% of victims with this condition are taken back to hospital 30 days after being discharged from the hospital, while 50% readmitted in the course of the first six months after discharge. This type of disease has a major impact on the quality of life of an individual and can finally lead to mortality

Preview of Main Points

Establishing self-care activities that will improve the quality of life of people with Chronic Heart Failure

The rise in the number of victims with heart disease has been as a result of factors such as the increase in the number of the elderly population, treatment of hypertension, increased awareness of the disease hence more diagnosis and reporting.

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) has the effect of impairing the quality of the life of a patient this is because it involves high hospitalization presence.

Body:

Main Point 1 Main Point 1: Increased Self-care Activities improve quality of life

Research shows that 27% of victims with this condition are taken back to hospital 30 days after being discharged from the hospital, while 50% readmitted in the course of the first six months after discharge. CITATION Bui12 \l 2057 (Bui & Fonarow, 2012)Increase in the expected number of the patient suffering from heart failure needs a critical attention such as establishing self-care activities that will improve the quality of life of people with Chronic Heart Failure.

To improve the health of the patients with CHF and reduce readmission rates, victims must take part in policies in place. The policies implementation will be in community settings, schools, and Health centres. Activities in this areas include CHF diagnosis monitoring and programs that motivate healthy activities and eating habits among the patients.

According to American Heart Association, the responsibility lies with the individual. They provide tools such as logs and trackers which are effective in teaching the patients ways to avoid pneumonia and flu. They also give brochures containing information on obstacles CHF patients face and their solutions. They motivate them with personal stories to serve as motivation. The trackers are used to record food intake, blood pressure, angina and the weight of the patients.

Main Point 2 Main Point 2: Effect on the Quality of Life of the patients

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) has the effect of impairing the quality of the life of a patient this is because it involves high hospitalization presence.

It is recorded as the disease with the highest risk of hospitalization compared to all the other conditions. In comparison with other conditions, Congestive Heart Failure has higher readmission rate.

Research shows that 27% of victims with this condition are taken back to hospital 30 days after being discharged from the hospital, while 50% readmitted in the course of the first six months after discharge. This type of disease has a major impact on the quality of life of an individual and can finally lead to mortality CITATION Bui12 \l 2057 (Bui & Fonarow, 2012)The hospitalization of patients suffering from this disease suffers social impairment leading to depression. More than 90% of the patients go through detrimental physical symptoms which leads to even psychological complications in the life of the victims CITATION Gar13 \l 2057 (Garin & Pont, 2013).

Emotional cognitive which includes effects such as depression, sleeping complications, and worry. These symptoms have detrimental effects on the life of the patients since the researchers and clinicians tend to focus on a single sign. Knowledge of all the symptoms can have a positive impact and overall condition of the victims this, as a result, reduces mortality rate in patients suffering from Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) CITATION Mos14 \l 2057 (Moser & Wu, 2014)Conclusion:

Restatement of Thesis Awareness should be provided to the patients to increase their overall health condition. Continued research in this field is, however, necessary to come up with strategies for improving the healthcare operations in handling patients with heart failure conditions.

Summary of the Main Points Improvement on Health care activities.

Proper diagnostic testing, assessments, good healthcare's and education the condition of the patient's

Concluding Comments Focus should be on how to create awareness among the Heart Failure patients

Substantial information exists about how to care for an individual suffering from heart failure.Visual Aid Visual Aid

Congestive Heart Failure Hospitalization rates for male and females

Reference List

Bui, A. L., & Fonarow, G. C. (2012). Home Monitoring for Heart Failure Management. Journal of the American College of Cardiology , 97-104.

Darling, C. S., & J, S. M. (2013). Delayed hospital presentation in acute decompensated heart failure: Clinical and. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 281-286.

Garin, O. F., & Pont, A. W. (2013). Evidence on the global measurement model of Minesota living with Heart Failure. Quality of Life Research, 2675-2684.

Moser, D. L., & Wu, J. (2014). Identification of symptom clusters among patients with heart failure: An international. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1366-1372.