Hypertension Management: A Nursing Conclusion on Lifestyle Impact

This nursing report concludes that lifestyle modifications, such as a healthy diet, exercise, and smoking cessation, significantly lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, aligning with the agreement. While disagreement arises due to factors like menopause, pregnancy, and psychosocial stress contributing to hypertension, the report emphasizes that the benefits of lifestyle changes are observed on a wider scale. Nursing implications include educating patients about the disease, treatment benefits, and dietary changes, alongside informing them about potential medication side effects like diarrhea, cough, dizziness, headache, vomiting, and fatigue. The report supports adopting lifestyle modifications, highlighting their widespread benefits in managing hypertension across diverse populations.

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Eating a healthy diet, reducing intake of fat rich foods, performing physical exercise and
quitting smoking considerably help in lowering blood pressure, by bringing about reduction in
the levels of cholesterol (Weber et al., 2014). This formed the basis of agreement. Adhering to
dietary modifications like vegetables, fruits and low fat dairy and saturated products, and a
reduced intake of sugar, help in reducing cholesterol in blood, thereby preventing plaque
formation (Kwan et al., 2013). Disagreement was shown due to the fact that apart from lifestyle
characteristics, hypertension has also been correlated with menopause and pregnancy among
women (Modena, 2014). Furthermore, psychosocial stress has also been established as a major
risk factor that increases risks of elevated blood pressure among all individuals (Hu et al., 2015).
However, it can be concluded that the findings presented in favour of disagreement for
adopting lifestyle modifications represent a small section of the global population. On the other
hand, benefits of lifestyle modifications on hypertension have been observed on a much wider
scale, regardless of the backgrounds of the individuals, which confirms an agreement.
Nursing implications for hypertension encompass certain features, such as, educating the
patients about the disease process, helping them understand benefits of the treatment regimen,
and making them adhere to the dietary changes. Efforts will be taken in educating patients, to
assist them understand the necessity of compliance, to prevent major health complications in
future. Another nursing implication will also be related to disclosing about the common side
effects that can occur, upon administration of hypertension drugs, such as, diarrhoea, cough,
dizziness, headache, vomiting, and fatigue.

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