Expanding the Role of Nurses to Improve Hypertension Care and Control Globally

<p>The role of the nurse in improving hypertension control has expanded over the past 50 years, complementing and supplementing that of the physician. Nurses' involvement began with measuring and monitoring blood pressure (BP) and patient education and has expanded to become one of the mo...

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Autores principales:	Cheryl R. Dennison Himmelfarb, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Martha N. Hill
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Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2016
Materias:	hypertension nurse team-based care quality Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:15452a8f791a4511bcabe837e402930a2021-12-02T08:52:32ZExpanding the Role of Nurses to Improve Hypertension Care and Control Globally2214-999610.1016/j.aogh.2016.02.003https://doaj.org/article/15452a8f791a4511bcabe837e402930a2016-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/743https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996<p>The role of the nurse in improving hypertension control has expanded over the past 50 years, complementing and supplementing that of the physician. Nurses' involvement began with measuring and monitoring blood pressure (BP) and patient education and has expanded to become one of the most effective strategies to improve BP control. Today the roles of nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) in hypertension management involve all aspects of care, including (1) detection, referral, and follow up; (2) diagnostics and medication management; (3) patient education, counseling, and skill building; (4) coordination of care; (5) clinic or office management; (6) population health management; and (7) performance measurement and quality improvement. The patient-centered, multidisciplinary team is a key feature of effective care models that have been found to improve care processes and control rates. In addition to their clinical roles, nurses lead clinic and community-based research to improve the hypertension quality gap and ethnic disparities by holistically examining social, cultural, economic, and behavioral determinants of hypertension outcomes and designing culturally sensitive interventions to address these determinants.Cheryl R. Dennison HimmelfarbYvonne Commodore-MensahMartha N. HillUbiquity Pressarticlehypertensionnurseteam-based carequalityInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 82, Iss 2, Pp 243-253 (2016)
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description	<p>The role of the nurse in improving hypertension control has expanded over the past 50 years, complementing and supplementing that of the physician. Nurses' involvement began with measuring and monitoring blood pressure (BP) and patient education and has expanded to become one of the most effective strategies to improve BP control. Today the roles of nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) in hypertension management involve all aspects of care, including (1) detection, referral, and follow up; (2) diagnostics and medication management; (3) patient education, counseling, and skill building; (4) coordination of care; (5) clinic or office management; (6) population health management; and (7) performance measurement and quality improvement. The patient-centered, multidisciplinary team is a key feature of effective care models that have been found to improve care processes and control rates. In addition to their clinical roles, nurses lead clinic and community-based research to improve the hypertension quality gap and ethnic disparities by holistically examining social, cultural, economic, and behavioral determinants of hypertension outcomes and designing culturally sensitive interventions to address these determinants.
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title	Expanding the Role of Nurses to Improve Hypertension Care and Control Globally
title_short	Expanding the Role of Nurses to Improve Hypertension Care and Control Globally
title_full	Expanding the Role of Nurses to Improve Hypertension Care and Control Globally
title_fullStr	Expanding the Role of Nurses to Improve Hypertension Care and Control Globally
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Expanding the Role of Nurses to Improve Hypertension Care and Control Globally

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