Consulta de enfermagem ao portador de hipertensão: trabalhando o autocuidado

Abstract

It was aimed to organize na Arterial Hypertension Treatment Program here in São Luís- MA. The nursing attendance to hypertension patients used the Theory of Orem as referencial. This study was develop from july 2002 to january 2003. Five patients were attended by a nurse during six months using in this case a descriptive research technique. The patients were male and femaie, aging 40 to 80 years old, incomplete junior high schooi and the financial condition is not good. Among these patients the most common diagnosis was the control of therapeuitic regimen doesn'd work out and its features are the difficulty in reguiating/integration of the therapeutic regimen using medicine and not using it in the treatment of arterial hypertension and in the prevention of sequeis. The related factors are the following: lack of knowledge and having doubts about what kind of food to eat, necessity of leisure, the control of emotional tension, work out regularly, weight loss and quit smoking are the activities of the treatment not using medicine. Go regularly to a hospital and take medicine regularly are the most efficient attitudes in the treatment with medicine.