Danger Signs in Heart Failure- Effects of Video Education

Inclusion Criteria: * Not referred for cardiac transplantation or ventricular assist device placement during the index hospitalization, * Cognitively intact and able to view videos (adequate eyesight and hearing) with correction, if needed, * Discharge to home, assisted living facility or to a family member's home and can control dietary sodium and fluids as needed, * Willing to participate; which may require up to three (3) follow-up telephone calls post-discharge. Exclusion Criteria: * Chart documented psychiatric or cognitive conditions that limit ability to understand video content or adhere to self-care recommendations (Alzheimer's condition, dementia, schizophrenia, other neurological history that impairs memory or concentration), * Plans to discharge to skilled nursing facility or hospice care, * Receiving home hospice or palliative care; or has a medical condition reflecting less than 1 year of survival (cachexia, end stage liver disease or cancer or non-ambulatory New York Heart Association functional class IV HF), * Hospitalized but at admission, in New York Heart Association functional class I or II HF * Post-cardiac transplantation or ventricular assist device placement, * Currently enrolled in another experimental HF research study, * Chronic renal failure and receiving chronic hemodialysis therapy for an estimated glomerular filtration rate \< 15 mL/minute/1.73 m2, * A non-traditional form of HF (hypertrophic or restrictive forms of cardiomyopathy, congenital…