It is suspected that an older adult patient is experiencing severe hypertension. The nurse documents symptoms that support this diagnosis when the patient reports
a. difficulty reading the newspaper's print.
b. being fatigued after walking around the block.
c. noticing that his heart "skips a beat" fre-quently.
d. getting up from a chair too quickly makes him dizzy.
A
The patient with severe hypertension may experience throbbing occipital headaches, confusion, visual loss, focal deficits, epistaxis, and coma. The other manifestations are not associated with hypertension.
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