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Blood pressure measurement--an observational study of 21 public health nurses

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Author

  • Eva Drevenhorn
  • Anders Håkansson
  • Kerstin Petersson

Summary, in English

The purpose of this study was to observe how public health nurses perform blood pressure measurement. Structured observations were made of 21 randomly selected public health nurses while they performed three blood pressure measurements. The public health nurses used an overall correct method for blood pressure measurement. Five nurses out of 21 used the Tri-cuff but the soft cuff was most frequently used. When choosing the breadth of the cuff, 10 nurses decided by eye and not by the marks on the cuff. To ensure a completely correct method additional information is needed by nurses.

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Pages

189-194

Publication/Series

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volume

10

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Nursing

Status

Published

Research group

  • Family Medicine and Community Medicine

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1365-2702