In many low-and-middle income countries, there is evidence of suboptimal heart failure management. To address this issue and bring the quality of care available in the U.S. to other countries, the ACC launched an international training program for heart failure nurses in 2017.

Cardiology magazine spoke with the two lead educators for the initiative, Sara Paul, DNP, FNP, CHFN, CCA, who directs the Heart Function Clinic at Catawba Valley Cardiology in Conover, NC, and Cynthia Bither, ACNP, MSN, AACC, chief nurse practitioner of the Advanced Heart Failure Program at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, who have spent the past three years traveling the world to empower heart failure nurses. Read more.

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