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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CC</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Cardiol Croat</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Cardiologia Croatica</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Cardiol. Croat.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="ppub">1848-543X</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">1848-5448</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Croatian Cardiac Society</publisher-name></publisher>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">CC 2021 16_11-12_337</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15836/ccar2021.337</article-id>
<article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Heart failure</subject></subj-group>
<subj-group subj-group-type="subheading"><subject>Extended Abstract</subject></subj-group>
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<article-title>How important is the education of patients with heart failure to us?</article-title>
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<trans-title>Koliko nam je va&#x017E;na edukacija bolesnika sa zatajivanjem srca?</trans-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4014-0860</contrib-id><name><surname>Lovren&#x010D;i&#x0107;</surname><given-names>Helena</given-names></name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7345-5829</contrib-id><name><surname>Toma&#x0161;i&#x0107;</surname><given-names>Ivana</given-names></name><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6342-7771</contrib-id><name><surname>Slonj&#x0161;ak</surname><given-names>Vesna</given-names></name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6001-7889</contrib-id><name><surname>&#x0160;kalec</surname><given-names>Ivana</given-names></name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5294-9942</contrib-id><name><surname>Kelekovi&#x0107;</surname><given-names>Karolina</given-names></name></contrib>
<aff id="aff1"><institution>Klini&#x010D;ki bolni&#x010D;ki centar Sestre milosrdnice</institution>, <addr-line>Zagreb</addr-line>, <country country="hr">Hrvatska</country></aff>
<aff id="aff2"><institution>University Hospital Centre &#x201E;Sestre milosrdnice&#x201C;</institution>, <addr-line>Zagreb</addr-line>, <country country="hr">Croatia</country></aff>
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<corresp id="cor1"><label>*</label>Address for correspondence: Ivana Toma&#x0161;i&#x0107;, Klini&#x010D;ki bolni&#x010D;ki centar Sestre milosrdnice, Vinogradska cesta 29, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. / Phone: + 385-1- 378-7933 / E-mail: <email xlink:href="ivana.tomasic@kbcsm.hr">ivana.tomasic@kbcsm.hr</email></corresp></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub"><month>10</month><year>2021</year></pub-date>
<volume>16</volume>
<issue>11-12</issue>
<fpage>337</fpage>
<lpage>337</lpage>
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<date date-type="received"><day>05</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></date>
<date date-type="accepted"><day>14</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></date>
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<copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Croatian Cardiac Society</copyright-holder>
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<kwd-group kwd-group-type="translator" xml:lang="hr"><title>KLJU&#x010C;NE RIJE&#x010C;I: </title><kwd>zatajivanje srca</kwd><kwd>edukacija</kwd><kwd>medicinska sestra</kwd><kwd>hospitalizacija</kwd></kwd-group>
<kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><title>KEYWORDS: </title><kwd>heart failure</kwd><kwd>education</kwd><kwd>nurse</kwd><kwd>hospitalization</kwd></kwd-group>
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<p>Chronic heart failure is a complex, usually progressive clinical syndrome that, regardless of structural or functional heart disease, is characterized by the inability of the heart to receive or displace blood and thus meet the metabolic needs of the organism (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="r1"><italic>1</italic></xref>). Heart failure (HF) most often occurs as a result of a previous and late treatment of myocardial infarction, uncontrolled hypertension, heart valve disease, or myocardial disease. Patient education is an important component of HF care and should be provided through effective and well-assessed strategies. Numerous studies in patients with HF have shown a need for education (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="r2"><italic>2</italic></xref>). Almost all nursing diagnoses involve educating a patient or family member in a health care plan through nursing interventions (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="r3"><italic>3</italic></xref>). The nurse spends the most time with the patient and educates him about the importance of taking therapy, lifestyle changes - weight loss, limiting fluid intake, reducing salt in the diet, regulating blood pressure and blood glucose, and managing stress. Relapses are common due to a frivolous understanding of the disease and non-compliance with health instructions. Education about the disease helps to raise self-confidence, encouraging patients to become aware of their disease, to do everything to slow down the course of HF and thus reduce the number of hospitalizations, and to improve the quality of life.</p>
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