During a health fair, the nurse takes an adult's blood pressure, and it is 200/120 mm hg. the nurse should base the next nursing intervention on what understanding?

Ans.

The blood pressure is defined as the pressure applied by blood cells to the wall of blood capillaries. The normal blood pressure ranges between 120/80 to 140/90, in which upper range shows systolic pressure and lower range shows diastolic pressure.

According to given data, the blood pressure of adult is 200/120, which shows an increase in blood pressure. This condition is known as hypertension. Thus, the nurse should perform next nursing intervention by keeping in mind that the patient is having hypertension and there is a need to control his blood pressure as hypertension can lead to various adverse effects on organs and systems of the body.

There is an increased risk for having a cerebrovascular accident (brain attack).

Explanation:

The normal range of blood pressure is considered to be 120/80 mm Hg.

In this value of 120/80 mm Hg, 120 is the systolic pressure and 80 is the diastolic pressure.

Now in the given question, it is given that the adult's blood pressure is 200/120 mm Hg which means that the adult has very high blood pressure.

Having such high blood pressure the adult is at risk of having a brain attack as such a high blood pressure can lead to the bursting of the blood vessel that is supplying blood to the brain.