Preface
Medical professionals attribute the problem of balance in the human body to heart failure. This condition of the heart is usually chronic or long-term. However, in other cases, it can develop suddenly. The heart is prone to many problems including the left and right side effects of the heart. Doctors refer to these problems as left-sided or right-sided heart failure (Cowley & Houston, 2003). Heart failure occurs when the muscles of the heart are unable to eject or pump blood from the heart effectively, a problem is commonly known as systolic heart failure. Additionally, heart failure is present at a time when the heart muscles become stiff and have trouble when filling up with the blood, a problem known as diastolic heart failure. This paper will seek to write a teaching plan proposal on heart failure and the education that nursing provides to the patients admitted to the hospital.
Basic path-o-physiology review
Evidence-based knowledge
Documented evidence points out that there are issues that affect people who suffer from heart failure. The process of heart failure is disturbing and can lead to further complications, which in turn might worsen the condition (American Heart Association, 2006). As such, the nursing staff has a responsibility to teach heart failure patients more about this condition. One of the identified disease problems is congestive heart failure. According to the State Health Facts, the state of Nevada lost 195 people in 2008 due to diseases related to heart failure. Facts maintain that heart failure starts when the heart ceases to pump blood rich in oxygen to the other parts of the body (American Heart Association, 2003). The process of the disease is simple. Failed blood supply amounts to backs ups. As a result, the fluid ends up mounting in parts like the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, arms, liver, and legs. This issue leads to congestive heart failure.

Further, the heart failure process may sometimes take the composition of size. In this case, coronary artery disease paves way for heart failure disorders. When those small blood vessels responsible for supplying both oxygen and blood to the heart narrow, the heart starts experiencing serious problems when trying to execute its main function. With reference to American Heart Association, 2003, coronary artery disease, the heart failure process begins with the narrowing of the blood vessels. In addition, sources opine that process of this disease may start from high blood pressure (American Heart Association, 2003). Under this spectrum, if a person is suffering from high blood pressure he becomes prone to heart failure especially if the condition remains uncontrolled (Cowley & Houston, 2003). This means that if the patient does not control his or her blood pressure, heart failure becomes inevitable. There are also other processes of heart failure. They include leaking valves, heart attack which involves depression, abnormal heart rhythms, and infections that weaken heart muscles.

Relevant effects on client, family, and community
Generally, within this realm of disease, heart failure represents part of the biggest challenges that the state of Nevada is facing with regard to modern health care. The sheer complexity and magnitude present with the spectrum involved by heart failure form a formidable dispute to all the people affected ranging from the patient to family as well as the community. Ideally, it is paramount to note that the estimated toll with reference to economic cost and human life united with inestimable consequences on quality of human life for families, communities, and individuals transcends all racial, gender, socio-economic, and ethnic groups (American Heart Association, 2006). With that in mind, it is disturbing to find that more than ten thousand people in Nevada suffer from heart problems. More aggravating is the fact that another larger number undergoes hospitalization every year and even worse another losses its life to heart-related diseases.

Heart failure in Nevada causes close to two hundred deaths every year. This shows that many people lose their lives. That is effect number one. A survey carried out by Kaiser Family Foundation in 2008 established that 246 male and 149 female residents of Nevada lost their lives due to heart diseases. These findings reveal the magnitude and reality of the results of heart failure diseases. Since death accounts for a greater proportion of incapability of those suffering from heart failure, it is seeable that loss of life is one thing that affects the patient, family, and the community (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003). The patient is affected in that, he or she losses his life to heart failure disorders and the family loses a member while the community becomes less of an energetic associate capable of adding value to the society.

Community resources exhausted by the client(s)
From the year, 2000 to the present, the death toll continues to devastate the State of Nevada. On the other end, calculations regarding the amount of money excluding other resources that this state loses to the fight are also disturbing. As of 2004, an estimated $3,085,109,650 included $1,894,874,347 spent on direct hospital costs as well as $1,190,235,303 for costs resulting from loss of productivity due to either death or disability went to diseases caused by the circulatory system in Nevada (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003). These are not individual funds but communal. The community is indeed losing many funds in heart failure cases (Cowley & Houston, 2003).

Believably, a person suffering from heart failure disorder needs a lot of attention. This indicates that there must be someone on sight to take care of the patient. This takes into account the aspect of time. The family as well as the community has a role to play when it comes to taking care of the patient. Situations related to this can prove to be overwhelming hence; the community loses very valuable time. Arguably, the liable caregivers form a potential part of community development activities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003). Nevertheless, when these people occupy themselves with providing help and monitoring the response of the patient, they end up losing too much of their time in resource-draining activities. In this view, both the caregiver and the patient become a liability to the community, as their efforts do not aid in community development.