[Nursing care to the client with hypertension: a bibliographic review]

Rev Bras Enferm. 2011 Jul-Aug;64(4):759-65. doi: 10.1590/s0034-71672011000400020.
[Article in Portuguese]

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the nursing care practices to the client with hypertension in the scientific production in the last ten years. It was carried out a bibliographic study, using in the BIREME, the LILACS, SciELO and BDENF's data basis, selecting thirty articles. The results were exposed in charts, tables and graphics, where prevails, in the literature analyzed, the nursing consultation as the more used practice, through the nursing attendance systematization and the Health Education with individual approaches, besides the realization of home visits with family approach. One believes that the systematization of nursing care will contribute in an expressive manner to the adhesion to the antihypertensive treatment.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Hypertension / nursing*