You are on clinical placement at your local community health centre and are working with the Heart Failure CNC (Clinical Nurse consultant) for this shift. The Heart Failure CNC tells you that you are going to see John Davies is a 56 year old man who resides in a disability-specific group home. John suffered an anterior myocardial infarction and now has chronic heart failure. John's recovery following his myocardial infarction was complicated by a cardiac arrest where he had a 'down time' of 16 minutes and sustained a hypoxic brain injury. This has left John with a moderate to severe cognitive impairment. The Heart Failure CNC has been asked to review John because he has had multiple presentations to ED with exacerbation of his heart failure over the past six months.
The task details are as follows:
1. Review the literature and write a 1500 word essay based on a case study that answers the following question: "Critically analyse the effects of having a heart failure and cognitive impairment and the impact of the nurses' ability to promote the health and wellbeing of the person".
2. Focus their case study on an adult with heart failure and cognitive impairment.