Educational Activities
Below is the list of all the AAHFN Educational Activities (CE and Non-CE). All activities indicate if CE is provided or not.
Accreditation Statement:
The American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Educational Journal Club:
The AAHFN Online Journal Club provides an opportunity for nurses to review contemporary literature and translate research into practice while networking with nurses actively engaged in heart failure nursing. The topics focus on various issues impacting heart failure and heart failure nurses. The format includes both audio and blogging interaction at a convenient time for you.
The purpose of this webinar is to provide an overview of the implications of anemia in the management of HF patients. Diagnostic workup, management strategies, and patient education will be discussed.
Recorded Enduring Education Activity
CEUs Earned: 1.00
The purpose of this webinar is to help heart failure nurses to understand the management of transplant patients. What are the needs of the transplant patient. What are the medications.
Learner Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
The purpose of this webinar is to broaden the heart failure nurses’ understanding of the prevalence, incidence, potential etiologies, pathophysiology, and assessment and intervention strategies for patients with heart failure and cognitive dysfunction.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session reviews the impact of elevated potassium as an impediment to the optimization of RAAS Inhibition. Learn how to manage Hyperkalemia in the Heart Failure Patient and explore treatment options.
Learner Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Assist front line nurses and nurse practitioner to better meet the palliative care needs for patients and their families’ living with advanced heart failure.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
The purpose of this webinar is to aide the nursing provider in understanding and then implementing therapy based upon the values obtained during a right heart catheterization.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to develop a better understanding of the pathophysiology and hemodynamic parameters of PAH and treatment options for this disease, and the role of the nurse in helping these patients better understa
CEUs Earned: 1.00
The purpose of this activity is to provide more information accurate information to patients before, during or after a natural disaster.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Purpose Statement
Learner will have improved knowledge in the treatments of patients with HFrEF.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this activity is to provide more information relating to Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
Enduring Education Activity
CEUs Earned: 1.90
Purpose
The purpose of this activity is to understand that risk for hyperkalemia is affected by a multitude of factors — identify those factors and understand treatment options.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this activity is to provide more information about new medications for heart failure patients, what not to give, polypharmacy, and algorithms to titrate.
CEUs Earned: 0.72
Purpose
The purpose of this activity is to provide a better understanding of sleep disorders, treatment options and the impact on HF patients.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this activity is to explore care of HF patients in rural America and identify ways to overcome barriers
Enduring Education Activity
CEUs Earned: 0.50
The purpose of this webinar is to help heart failure nurses understand how diabetes and heart failure affects patients and how to care for them and manage their disease process.
Recorded Enduring Education Activity
CEUs Earned: 1.00
The Symposium at AAHFN 2019 was presented to help clinicians learn about appropriate patient selection, clinical assessment and timing for advanced therapies, and how and when to discuss advanced heart failure treatment options with patients and their
The purpose of this activity is to identify factors that affect/predict higher readmission rates and what strategies have been effective at reducing 30-day readmission rates for patients admitted with HF to improve patient outcomes and mitigate the cos
The purpose of this webinar is to increase understanding of the impact depression has on those diagnosed with heart failure and recognize the availability of evidence-based assessment tools for identifying depression in heart failure as well as appropr
Heart failure (HF) is increasing in incidence globally, 5.7 million Americans live with HF and approximately half of all HF patients are women. Heart failure affects about 2.5 million women in the United States.
The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to understand the current evidence base for the comprehensive management of pain in patients with heart failure
Hypervolemia increases symptoms and reduces functional status and quality of life. Further, hypervolemia is associated with morbidity and mortality.
The purpose of this activity is to prepare heart failure nurses to communicate about palliative and end-of-life care issues related to the heart failure diagnosis.