The nurse doing patient education with a 55-year-old male recently diagnosed with primary hypertension
who has no signs or symptoms of the disease is aware that an estimated 50% of patients discontinue their antihypertensive medications within one year of beginning them. Keeping this in mind, the nurse recommends which of the following to this patient:
A) Self-monitoring of blood pressure
B) Monthly visits to the physician to monitor blood pressure
C) Adherence to the treatment plan regardless of symptoms
D) Monitoring of symptoms of complications of hypertension and taking medications if symptoms are present
Ans: A
Feedback: The effort to follow the therapeutic plan for hypertension may seem unreasonable to some, particularly when they have no symptoms without medication but do have side effects with medication. Compliance with antihypertensive medications increases when patients actively participate in self-care, ie, self-monitoring of blood pressure and diet because patients receive immediate feedback and have a greater sense of control.
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