Role of Nurse in Patient Education on Hypertension

Literature review on the role of
the nurse in patient education
on hypertension

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
RESULT.................................................................................................................................3
NURSING CARE RELATED WITH HYPERTENSION.....................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Hypertension refers to the elevated systole blood pressure with normal or low diastolic
blood pressure which is caused due to age-associated stiffening of large arteries. This relates to
increased pulse wave velocity heat and was generally seen in older people that they are suffering
from hypertension. This is due to the cause of their old age and which relates to different risk
factors like cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction and many more. This report aims to
provide an understanding of a different clinical problem that can create hypertension and
difficulties which are during providing care by nursing staff for people with hypertension. In this
report, there is a discussion about hypertension in older people which relates to nursing care that
can provide better care during hypertension in older people. There is also discussion about the
issues which are there in nursing care and the way to resolve the issue and provide better health
care to older people (Talaei, (2017)).
RESULT
It can be said that there is a high need to provide care to the patient with hypertension.
Older people, who are not able to manage their medicine and different health-related
consciousness should provide them with better health. To this, nurses can provide them care
which can help them to get improved health with hypertension. It can also be concluded that
there are different issues or problems introduces themselves during providing care to the older
person with hypertension. there are some the issues like proper medication at right time,
managing diet and many more. It is highly needed to provide care to hypertension patients for
improved health of older people. there is also a need to provide adequate knowledge to the
person with hypertension to get risk factors which can able to high impact on their health. There
is also a need to provide them a better understanding of the care plan which should be followed
for their improvement and mental health (Sanders, (2018)).
NURSING CARE RELATED WITH HYPERTENSION
According to Calano, (2019) Hypertension refers to high blood pressure when elevated
blood pressure exceeds 140 over 90 mm Hg. There are different classifications of hypertension
in which are normal, elevated, stage 1, stage II, and hypertensive crisis. Normal, when blood
pressure is less than 120 by 80 mm Hg. Elevated, when systolic blood pressure is between 120 to
129 and diastolic blood pressure is less than 80. Stage 1, when blood pressure is between 130 to