Nurse Review of Hypertension Medications – part 1 & Episode 218




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Summary: The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network (http://promednetwork.com/). Mobile health with smart phones, hurricane nurses, pregnancy flu and autism, plus we'll take a look at antihypertensive medications this week. If that's what you're looking for, you found it. It's the Nursing Show. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3 Audio Version (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeItunes.png)iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-show-online-radio/id271728764#) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeZune.png)Zune (zune://subscribe/?Nursing%20Show=http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/podcast/) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeRSS.png)Podcast (http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/podcast/) —- Subscribe to the Podcast Studio Video Version (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeItunes.png)iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=386460885#) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeZune.png)Zune (zune://subscribe/?Nursing%20Show=http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/studio_video/) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeRSS.png)Podcast (http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/studio_video/) — Welcome to the Show (http://www.nursingshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nurse-heart-hands-300x199.jpg)Good day and welcome to this episode of the Nursing Show. I'm your host Jamie Davis and I'd like to welcome all of you to this week's program. We have a great show coming up for you this week including a look at some of the nursing response to Hurricane Sandy and the accounts of some of the evacuation that happened. All that coming up in the news items and after that we're also going to take a look at part one of our review of antihypertensive medications, so stay tuned for that later on in this episode. If you want to follow up on any of the information from this episode, I urge you to do so. You can find links to everything we talk about the news items, links to additional resources having do with the tip of the week, and more. All that is available for you over at the Nursing Show website. You can find that at NursingShow.com (http://nursingshow.com). If you want to get back in touch with me, I welcome you to do that as well. Please do so. I love to hear from the audience and I do respond back to every single e-mail that comes in so keep them coming. Send those e-mails in here to NursingShow@Gmail.com (mailto:nursingshow@gmail.com). I look forward to hearing from you. Without too much further ado, we're going to get ready to get into this week's news. News— More Smartphones Accessing Health Apps (http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/half-smartphone-users-embrace-mhealth) Hurricane Nurses to the Rescue (http://news.nurse.com/article/20121109/NY01/111120005) Pregnancy, Flu and Autism Risk (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/252683.php) ———————————– Tip of the Week - Hypertension Medication Review Part 1 Coming up next in this episode is a look at antihypertensive medications. This will be part one of two segments. Over the next two weeks we'll look at this broad class of medications and some of the important considerations to keep in mind when educating patients about their use, side effects, and precautions. Without too much further ado let's get into looking at antihypertensive medications. Tip Links Hypertension Links: NIH Medline Plus on Hypertension (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000468.htm) NIH Blood Pressure Medications (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007484.htm) —- If you have any questions, links and more reference information is available in the show notes for this episode over nursingshow.com (http://nursingshow.com). You can find more video segments like this one at http://NursingShow.TV (http://nursingshow.tv/) ——— Sponsors NursingTopStudent.com (http://nursingtopstudent.com/) all of the tools student nurses need for less than $1 a day.