2025 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 50-61
Aim: This study aimed to define rehospitalization prevention in patients with heart failure in home healthcare nursing practice.
Methods: We analyzed 30 domestic and international studies using Rodgers’ evolutionary concept analysis.
Results: Five attributes, five antecedents, and four consequences were extracted: “comprehensive assessment emphasizing lifestyle,” “life-based support from the early stage of treatment,” “decision support for conditions with difficult prognosis,” “disease management through integrated coordination and collaboration with other professions and agencies,” and “maintaining continuity of care.”
Conclusions: Rehospitalization prevention for patients with heart failure in home healthcare nursing practice was defined as “a lifestyle-oriented, comprehensive assessment-based, life-oriented support from the early stage of treatment, with the patient and family confirming the patient’s intention regarding the treatment plan, in coordination and collaboration with other professionals for disease management, to maintain continuity of care.” This practice improves patients’ level of self-care and makes it a habit, leading to active disease management by the patient and their family, which is reflected in their quality of life and continuation of home healthcare.
