Now available
on the App Store:
SimSuite Heart Failure
Course Introduction app
for iPhone^® and iPad^®

Test your knowledge of best practices in heart failure treatment by downloading this app, featuring an interactive case study and animation from the comprehensive SimSuite Decompensated Heart Failure online course.

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Try the Intro App on your computer.

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Lighten the Load

Early identification and treatment of decompensated heart failure are vital to improving patient outcomes. The SimSuite Decompensated Heart Failure Quality Improvement Program focuses on management of the patient experiencing heart failure, based on the 2009 American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines^® Heart Failure Recognition Program.

Training Objectives

The goal of this program is to increase and reinforce the competence and confidence^® of all healthcare team members associated with the identification and initial care of patients presenting with decompensated heart failure. Upon completion of the program, participants should be able to:

• List current incidence and prevalence data pertaining to heart failure.
• Discuss factors that contribute to heart failure.
• Evaluate presenting signs and symptoms indicative of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).
• Distinguish between the NYHA functional and ACC/AHA classifications of heart failure.
• Interpret lab work and diagnostic testing to make a differential diagnosis.
• Apply the risk stratification of acute decompensated heart failure.
• Discuss evidence-based management of acute decompensated heart failure.
• List examples of the Hospital Quality Initiatives for best practices in the care of patients with heart failure.

Program Benefits

• Documentation of staff competence and compliance
• Consistent training across all staff
• Integration into Quality Improvement Programs
• Program based on guidelines, tools, and research from:
  • American Heart Association (AHA): Get With The Guidelines
  • Heart Failure Society of America: 2010 Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid: Hospital Quality Initiatives
  • Hospital Quality Alliance
  • Joint Commission
• Continuing education credits available (CE Statement
  This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Activities that are approved by AORN are recognized as continuing education for registered nurses. This recognition does not imply that AORN or the ANCC Commission on Accreditation approves or endorses any product included in the presentation.
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MSC Training Solution

MSC has several options for delivering the Decompensated Heart Failure Program to your team:

• Comprehensive training tool kit, including pre-programmed scenarios using the Laerdal SimMan^® human patient simulator
• Full-service training events, featuring didactic lecture and hands-on skills training
  • Training events at your hospital
  • Train-the-Trainer services
• On-line course

Download Program Brochure (PDF - 161KB)

Contact us today to learn more about the SimSuite Decompensated Heart Failure Program.