Measuring Someone's Blood Pressure

Accomplishments in my life have really given me a new understanding for myself and others and allowed for personal growth. One accomplishment has provoked this growth: being inducted into the National Honor Society. The society helps me to think differently about other people and learn of ways I could become a better person. This experience has shown me the importance of hard work, never giving up, social interaction, and helping others.

My most meaningful accomplishment in the last few years is the work that I did as Social Chair of my sorority. When I was offered the position, I knew there would be stress from becoming the sole representative of my sorority to the rest of Greek life and other organizations. However, I greatly underestimated the stress of being the bridge between my organization and others. I pushed myself to see my position through and felt a huge sense of accomplishment after I was done and able to see the work that I was able to do. I would measure my success by comparing the work of other social chairs to what I was able to accomplish. Not only did I look at past social chairs within my organization, but I also sought out other social chairs for other

DI would say, successfully starting over as a non traditional student is my most meaningful achievement to date. While I've achieved most, if not all, goals that I've set to carry out, Most meaningfully, coming to terms with a juvenile decision and not giving up serves as my most telling accomplishment.

A summary of 3,246 individuals (identified by ID numbers) with corresponding systolic blood pressures was used as my primary data set.

Becoming a MAWHIBA student. MAWHIBA is an organization that takes the top students in the nation and gives them many opportunities like college experiences and the ability to conduct research with college professors. I was the only one in my middle school to pass the test and I ended up getting sent to a private high school in a classroom for gifted students. This is a major turning point in my life. The classroom is full of smart students who gave me a challenge trying to beat them in grades. It was also fun being in a class full of people who want to learn, ask smart questions, and understand tutoring. Every time we have an exam, I always run around the class teaching everyone and learning from them anything I missed or didn’t fully comprehend.

The purpose of this experiment was to see how different genres of music affect blood pressure (BP). The hypothesis was that songs with higher beats per minute (BPM) would cause an increase in BP. The items that were used in this experiment were an automatic BP monitor, a mp3 player, five different types of music, and a set of headphones. The subject would stand for a minute, have the resting BP measured, then listen to the selected song for two minutes, and again have the BP measured. From all of the genres Meditation the music that lowered BP the most, while Rock raised it significantly.

These are great moments of success after all and without a doubt have reason to be celebrated. However, an achievement is still an achievement no matter how small. To achieve is to accomplish something that you couldn’t do before or put your best effort into. Whether, it be as simple as getting out of bed, passing a class, or learning a new Surgical Procedure.

Getting your blood pressure taken is the first thing that nurses do when giving a check up to their patients. When getting blood pressure checked the nurses put the arm ring, which goes around the arm of the patient, is very uncomfortable and bulky. I have thought of a way that uses newer technology. The supplies I will be using would be the blood pressure monitor and a piece of the heat monitor. The piece of the heart monitor I would be using is the clamp that goes on the patient’s finger. The reason I am going to use this is because it is, seems to be, the more efficient way to make the blood pressure monitor less uncomfortable and bulky as I had stated earlier. Sense I’m not using the clamp for the heart monitor to check the heart I need to enhance the clamper. The way I would enhance the clamper would be to make the sensor a little more sensitive to the blood flow going through the arteries. Instead of the blood pressure monitor going around the patients arm it would clamp on top the finger. In order to get the proper measurement,

The inclusion criteria were clearly stated. Researchers clearly stated the group intensions and described how participants were recruited into the study. e.g., “researchers compared these statements, phases, or other parts of the dialog”. (Palese, 2008). To identify any personal biases the researchers clarified familiarization, compilation, condensation and place them into groups with borders. This was a demonstration of trustworthiness of data while working in the field. The researchers performed a series of actions to safeguard the rights and minimized risk of the study participants. An interview was conducted by one person who had experience and training in interviewing participants.

Blood pressure measurement is important because measuring blood pressure is a preventive technique to find any risk for hypertension and cardiovascular disease. In addition, measuring resting blood pressure is used to evaluate and compare the impact of exercise on the blood pressure. Also, what type of exercises will affect the blood pressure; for example, high intensity or a moderate intensity workout. The risks that are associated with high resting blood pressure are cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, heart attack, or stroke. Measuring blood pressure during exercise is important because it plays a big role in the output of the heart. In addition, provides information on myocardial oxygen consumption and calculates rate pressure from

Manual blood pressure techniques are compounded with many factors that may affect the measurement (Myers, 2010). Patient anxiety and poor blood pressure measurement technique by the health professional can result in a misdiagnosis and improper drug treatment (Myers, 2010).

I had the opportunity of taking care of two patients at one time. One of my patients’ glucose had been high, and the other patient blood pressure was high. The patient that I was giving medication to was the patient that had the high glucose. The other patient the nurse was going to give the medications; however, the nurse was having issues with logging into the computer system. The nurse need to call the physician, and make sure the patient did not have any PRN medications for the blood pressure. Because the nurse could not log into the computer system. I asked my classmate (the charge nurse for that weekend) to check my patient’s glucose while I worked with the nurse to get the information she needed to give to the physician. I logged into

It has been strongly researched that the heart rate of humans increase when there is a response to pain. A pain response is created by the nervous system and triggers a “fight or flight” response which then increases heart rate (Larson, 2015). When pain is inflicted on the skin, there are nerve receptors called Nociceptors which carry a signal down the spinal cord to the SA node in the heart, and therefore changing the heart rate (Larson, 2015). In 1987, research on temperature effecting heart rate was conducted. This experiment analyzed the effects of a cold pressor test on nerve activity, heart rate and arterial pressure (Victor, 1987). The authors of the experiment found an increase in heart rate for the first 30 seconds of the cold pressor

Accurate blood pressure measurement is a critical component of prenatal care. Hypertension during pregnancy may lead to serious health problems during pregnancy as well as after pregnancy. Some of the complication of elevated blood pressure (B/P) are eclampsia/preeclampsia, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes (Mannisto et al., 2013, p. 687). There are factors that affect the accuracy of the B/P reading. One such interfering factor is a crossed leg at the knee at the time of the B/P measurement of a pregnant woman. Crossed leg versus uncrossed leg has been studied by the researchers. The reported results are consistent throughout the studies that crossed leg at the knee or ankle elevate both systolic and diastolic blood pressures

Aim: This study aims to calculate the validity measures of blood pressure-to-height ratios (BPHR) in screening for elevated blood pressure (EBP) in a sample of the Egyptian adolescence aged 11-15 years.