Right Home Blood Pressure Monitor

Since the introduction of automatic blood pressure equipment, manual blood pressure monitoring is becoming less common. Automatic blood pressure monitors are becoming predominant in clinical settings. This move towards technology is decreasing the exposure to manual blood pressure measurements (Cork, 2007). Manual blood pressures are an essential nursing skill that can affect a patient’s health and care. Providing the best patient care is the optimal outcome for all healthcare providers.

The participants in the home-based educational interventions will be encouraged to purchase automated home blood pressure monitoring devices. All the patients will use similar devices and will be taught how to take BP readings and record the readings correctly. A registered nurse will visit the patients on a weekly basis to validate the BP monitoring techniques and review the recorded BP readings. The participants will also be educated on the importance of adherence to medications even when HTN symptoms seem under

People who have high blood pressure are putting more strain on the arteries, and this could be dangerous because it could lead to things such as heart attacks and strokes. Blood pressure can be measured by a sphygmomanometer.

Hypertension will be handled with medication and stress relief techniques. There are issues that may result in a temporary hypertension reading, however these readings which are regularly in the high vary ought to be checked out more by health care professionals and be treated.

When a stroke occurs statistically speaking , 8 out of 10 people had high blood pressure when the suffered a stroke . Again with heart failure . Patients who have heart failure also had high blood pressure . The exact causes of high blood pressure are not known , but several factors and conditions may play a role in its development , including : smoking , being overweight or obese , lack of physical activity , too much salt in the diet , too much alcohol consumption (more than 1 to 2 drinks per day ) , stress , older age , genetics , family history of high blood pressure , chronic kidney disease , adrenal and thyroid disorders , sleep apnea . Although you cannot control all of your risk factors for high blood pressure , you can take steps to prevent or control high blood pressure and its complications . Even by changing your diet and reducing the foods that contain high sodium and salt and eating healtheir can reduce your blood pressure and risk for heart disease . Even by reducing stress from your daily life can help to lower blood pressure . Adequate exercise can help with lowering hypertension and lowering your risk for heart disease . However in today's nursing workforce it is important to inform our patients the steps they can take to live healtheir and to reduce their risk of heart disease and

Assessing an arterial line the nurse looks at the insertion site does it look red, swollen, is the transducer even with the patient’s right atrium and does the BP readings look accurate? To monitor for accurate circulation, you look at circulation below the site, is there a pulse and are the extremities looking blue? A benefit of this is having a constant BP reading and tells the patients temperature. Some negatives is that it can be an extra risk for infection. Potential complications is the lower part of the extremity is not receiving adequate

An A-line blood pressure reading is considered more accurate than the cuff pressure reading. During initial assessment, it is routine to compare the A-line blood pressure with the cuff blood pressure. A-line blood pressure readings are higher than the cuff blood pressure readings, and more than a 10% difference may be due to equipment error. Nonivasive blood pressure reading is the most frequently performed clinical parameter and at the same time , not accurately done procedure. Accuracy of the blood pressure reading is vital to the critical care interventions . Clinical situations such as circulatory shock and use of vasopressors, resulting from poor systemic blood flow reduces the intensity of Korotkoff sound. There fore, when you are evaluating cuff blood pressure, make sure that the placement on the arm, cuff size, and techniques are accurate. The cuff bladder circumference should be more than 80% of the arm circumference, and the height of the bladder should be more than 40% of the limb circumference. If the cuff is too small, the BP reading will be high, and a big cuff will give a lower than accurate reading. Remember that the cuff should be 1 inch above the ante cubital fossa and the hand at the heart level. If you need to repeat the reading, wait until the mercury comes to zero, and then wait 1–2 minutes before reinflating again; otherwise, it may produce a

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,

I rather use the vital sign monitor when I must check 5 or more patients. By doing the vitals manually it takes a while to do when you have serval patients. One day at work I had to get vitals done for 8 patients. The vital sign monitor battery was dead, so I had to use to manually use blood pressure cuff. At that time, we had a full house of 24 patients. The nurse in charged asked to get vitals for 8 patients, when working in an Alzheimer unit is hard to do this before the nurse leaves their shift. I don’t like feeling rushed doing my job. By rushing getting the vitals sign manually done I can make mistakes. By miss calculating the respiratory counts and not listening carefully to the blood pressure. Therefore, I like using the vital sign monitor for multiple patients at a time to reduce medical

Furthermore, automated blood pressure cuffs can be advantageous because it is simple to use so patients are able to monitor their blood pressure in their own homes where there is theoretically decreased stress. Another benefit of automated blood pressure cuffs is that they are especially beneficial in certain subsets of patients. For example, these cuffs, in contrast to common thinking, can monitor patients with arrhythmias and accurately measure hypotension and hypertension during both the arrhythmia and regular rhythm.3 The automated cuffs are also correlated more strongly than manual blood pressure in patients with carotid artery intima-media thickness.1 The thickness

The mercury sphygmomanometer has been “gold-standard” for measuring blood pressure since it’s invention in 1881 (Ostchega et al, 2011). However, mercury is now considered to be an environmental risk and many hospitals and clinical practices worldwide have banned the use of mercury (Myers, 2010). There are now many mercury free alternatives to the sphygmomanometer such as the aneroid sphygmomanometer, digital monitors like the x or ambulatory blood

I was asked by my mentor if I am confident to perform a manual blood pressure measurement.

It is important to know what to do if one’s blood pressure approaches the extremes, as it can be a sign of a serious health problem. Knowing what the norm is for systolic and diastolic pressure can help eliminate health dangers. “An unusual blood pressure reading by itself, may not necessarily demand a 911 call” (Thomas, George M.D, 2015). While the unusual blood pressure reading may not be a 911 emergency at that moment, it can still be a sign of trouble arising. It is important for to realize the seriousness of rises in blood pressure. Hypertension can be prevented with regular checking and monitoring of the blood pressure. If blood pressure reaches 140/90 or higher

The aim of this fieldwork reflection is to spread awareness about a serious health problem. This problem is known as High Blood pressure in Hampton Park in the city of Casey. It came in an attention during the research of community fact sheet assignment. In every year a number of people suffer from high blood pressure include the adults and the elderly. In the Hampton Park, 27.3% community suffer from High blood pressure (Health.Vic.2017).

Discussing potential risk issues associated with using automated blood pressure/pulse machine in relation to contemporary practice.