Nurses role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
Session
Medicine and Nursing
Description
The continuum of cardiovascular disease represents a chain of events, initiated by a multitude of dependent or independent risk factors, interfering with many physiological processes to reach the final stage of cardiac disease. Despite improvements in the treatment of cardiovascular disease and a reduction in the mortality rate from cardiovascular events, global mortality from cardiovascular disease remains high. It is imperative to act to break the chain links of this continuum of cardiovascular disease. Since the magnitude of this problem is enormous and a challenge for all health care systems, the engagement of nurses as the majority of health professionals is essential. The facts show that: adverse social and environmental conditions promote patterns of adverse behavior that, in turn, contribute to the major risk factors and the cycle of illness, disability and death. The facts also show that interventions to improve social and environmental conditions are manifested by a reduction in cardiovascular mortality and healthy life to death. The contribution of nurses, as the largest group of health professionals, to health promotion, prevention and management of cardiovascular disease is essential to succeed in reducing mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular disease.
Keywords:
Cardiovascular diseases, Prevention, Nursing
Session Chair
Syheda Latifi Hoxha
Session Co-Chair
Shqiptar Demaçi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
26-10-2019 3:30 PM
End Date
26-10-2019 5:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.311
Recommended Citation
Abdushi, Serjan; Kryeziu, Fadil; Kryeziu, Violeta; and Abdushi, Shpend, "Nurses role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease" (2019). UBT International Conference. 311.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/311
Nurses role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
Pristina, Kosovo
The continuum of cardiovascular disease represents a chain of events, initiated by a multitude of dependent or independent risk factors, interfering with many physiological processes to reach the final stage of cardiac disease. Despite improvements in the treatment of cardiovascular disease and a reduction in the mortality rate from cardiovascular events, global mortality from cardiovascular disease remains high. It is imperative to act to break the chain links of this continuum of cardiovascular disease. Since the magnitude of this problem is enormous and a challenge for all health care systems, the engagement of nurses as the majority of health professionals is essential. The facts show that: adverse social and environmental conditions promote patterns of adverse behavior that, in turn, contribute to the major risk factors and the cycle of illness, disability and death. The facts also show that interventions to improve social and environmental conditions are manifested by a reduction in cardiovascular mortality and healthy life to death. The contribution of nurses, as the largest group of health professionals, to health promotion, prevention and management of cardiovascular disease is essential to succeed in reducing mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular disease.