Capella 4900 Assessment 4 Proposed Intervention for Hypertension to Improve Quality of Care, Enhanced Patient Safety and Reduce Costs

 The proposed intervention for Brian’s condition of treating and managing hypertension is using Electronic Medical Record (EMR)/ Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology, and self-management education. EHR-based stored and organized patient medical and health records will result in quick and easy access to Brian’s health and hypertension-associated records facilitating physicians in making prompt and correct decisions for Brian’s health. Furthermore, nurses will be able to look into the medication he is prescribed and will administer it accordingly without chances of incorrect medication administration errors.

This will improve the quality of care provided to Brian as well as enhance patient safety (Worku Kassahun et al., 2020). Providing EHR access to Brian will facilitate him in terms of reducing costs as Brian will enter regularly monitored BP readings which will notify healthcare professionals. Brian can get further treatment done at home without commuting to the hospital. Furthermore, the EHR implementation will reduce the paper-based recording of medical and health data, reducing the costs to the health systems ((Tsai et al., 2020); Worku Kassahun et al., 2020). 

Capella 4900 Assessment 4

Another intervention proposed for Brian is self-management education on reducing weight and quitting smoking and limiting the use of alcohol. These educational sessions will improve his lifestyle to a healthier one which will ultimately improve his health and control his blood pressure from elevating. This will reduce the costs to both the patient and system as the future complications will be prevented and further financial & material resources can be saved as patient safety will be enhanced. (Dunn & Hazzard, 2019). 

The relevant benchmark data in hypertension is the American Heart Association-provided blood pressure measurement categories by which nurses can classify the status of hypertensive patients. The normal range for blood pressure provided by AHA is 120/80 mmHg. Furthermore, the blood pressure measurements for prehypertensive or hypertensive stage 1, hypertensive stage 2, and hypertensive crisis are also provided by AHA. These benchmark data help nurses and other health professionals provide care treatment suitable for patients with particular blood pressure measurements and maintain it within the normal limit with the best possible care treatment method (American Heart Association, 2021).