Nursing Academy · MINC-NM-006
Nursing Management of Hypertension
Nursing Management of Hypertension was selected because it addresses an important nursing responsibility with direct implications for patient safety, continuity and quality of care. The module progresses from foundational concepts through assessment, nursing action, communication, evaluation and an integrated practice-improvement exercise.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Hypertension is common, frequently asymptomatic and often poorly controlled. Nursing practice is central to accurate measurement, risk identification, adherence support, monitoring, recognition of emergencies and continuity between facilities and communities.
What you will be able to do
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to measure and interpret blood pressure accurately.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to support cardiovascular risk assessment and diagnosis pathways.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to deliver individualised lifestyle and adherence counselling.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to monitor treatment response and adverse effects.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to recognise urgent presentations and coordinate appropriate escalation.
Units
- Hypertension burden and the nursing contribution (60 min)
- Blood pressure physiology and determinants (60 min)
- Classification and terminology (60 min)
- Preparing the patient for accurate measurement (60 min)
- Cuff selection, positioning and technique (60 min)
- Manual blood pressure measurement (60 min)
- Automated devices and validation (60 min)
- Common measurement errors (60 min)
- Repeat measurements and confirmation pathways (60 min)
- Home and ambulatory blood pressure concepts (60 min)
- History taking for a patient with raised blood pressure (60 min)
- Focused examination and red flags (60 min)
- Global cardiovascular risk assessment (60 min)
- Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors (60 min)
- Target-organ damage overview (60 min)
- Kidney assessment and hypertension (60 min)
- Diabetes and hypertension (60 min)
- Pregnancy and raised blood pressure (60 min)
- Hypertension in older adults (60 min)
- Secondary hypertension warning features (60 min)
- Lifestyle counselling: salt and dietary pattern (60 min)
- Physical activity and sedentary behaviour (60 min)
- Weight management (60 min)
- Alcohol, tobacco and substance use (60 min)
- Stress, sleep and psychosocial factors (60 min)
- Shared decision-making and treatment goals (60 min)
- Major antihypertensive medicine classes (60 min)
- Combination therapy and single-pill approaches (60 min)
- Monitoring response and treatment safety (60 min)
- Adherence assessment without blame (60 min)
- Medicine side effects and nursing action (60 min)
- Orthostatic hypotension and falls risk (60 min)
- Uncontrolled and resistant hypertension pathways (60 min)
- Hypertensive urgency: safe assessment (60 min)
- Hypertensive emergency: recognition and referral (60 min)
- Stroke and cardiovascular warning education (60 min)
- Follow-up scheduling and continuity (60 min)
- Community screening and linkage to care (60 min)
- Quality indicators for hypertension services (60 min)
- Integrated hypertension case and improvement plan (60 min)
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