Topics About 'Hypertension'.

Hi! I am a nurse with 5 months experience working in stepdown icu. I was wondering if someone could give me some insight into a recent situation. I had a patient who was there for a fungal infection. Pretty healthy patient only in stepdown because he...

So I for some reason am having such a tough time remembering the name of a medication! I had clinical and was looking at a pt's meds. There was one antihypertensive drug I've never heard of and is RARELY used by the pt, which is why I don't remember ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a condition that affects almost half of the adult population in the United States. According to the CDC, only 1 out of every 4 adults with hypertension has adequate blood pressure control. As nurses, we know...

My mouth fell open! I rubbed my eyes and read the message from the patient again that had been sent 20 minutes ago! I had just received an urgent warm handoff by phone from one of the phone bank staff that received this message. The message...

Recent research documents that a hypertensive ward found the BP readings of 1/3 their patients were in error when they switched to disposable washable cuffs to prevent cross-contamination. Another research just came out documenting the bladderless cu...