A research paper authored by Jenna Koster, MSN, RN, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Blessing Hospital, was published in the June 2021 issue of The Nursing Voice, an online platform of the American Nurses Association Illinois.
Koster’s research project, titled “Identifying Self-Care Practices in Heart Failure Patients,” determined the percent of heart failure patients who practice healthy heart self-care behaviors, such as daily weights, limiting fluids, eating a low-sodium diet, taking their prescribed medications, and exercising regularly in an effort to gain deeper insight into why individuals living with heart failure have a high readmission rate despite best practices for heart failure including nursing care, patient education, advances in pharmacologic and technological management.
A 16-year member of the Blessing Hospital nursing staff, Koster earned her Master of Science in Nursing degree from Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from West Liberty University in West Virginia. She worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania before joining the Blessing Hospital staff, where she has worked in the cardiovascular unit, the cardiac catheterization lab, and in cardiac rehabilitation.
Koster is a member of the Pi Pi Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau Internal Honor Society of Nursing.