Helping hypertensive clients help themselves: the nurse's role.
Nurses hve an important role in helping hypertensive clients accept, understand, and adhere to a therapeutic plan of self-care. This paper examines the nurses' role in helping hypertensive clients help themselves. Strategies include developing a therapeutic relationship, guiding, supporting, and teaching. The nurse can enhance the client-provider relationship by establishing a good rapport, being nonjudgmental, individualizing care, treating the whole person, and creating an effective clinic structure.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D012380:Role; D012648:Self Care