Nurse protocol for serving patients with hypertension

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You are the County Nurse Manager for X County Health Department in the northern region of the state with a population of 114,000. During the past 3 months, several of the Public Health Nurses have spoken about several (more than 12) clients who came to the health department looking for services related to managing their High Blood Pressure. Each client's blood pressure was elevated (based on national screening guidelines) and when the Public Health Nurse urged the client to see their private physician, the clients indicated they did not have health insurance. Some of the clients indicated they had lost their jobs and were not employed. Currently, the County Health Department does not provide any management of Hypertension. Although Public Health Nurses have a nurse protocol for serving patients with hypertension that protocol has not been implemented in your district.

Questions

1. Should you ignore this as just part of life that some people are going to have hypertension and that is a fact of life?

2. Is this a public health issue that should be studied or explored?

3. Should you gather more data to assess the scope of this problem?

4. Should this problem be referred to another health care provider and not involve public health, since public health doesn't have the resources to address every single health issue?

5. If you decide to study or explore the problem further, what would be your next steps?

6. Who would you engage in the next steps? (Community partners, organizations)

7. What resources would you consider using in your next steps?

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