Practicum Assignments

Romina Alejandra Dana

My community is of a diverse social and ethnic background.  It is mostly comprised of African Americans descend, obese, and elderly patients as well as lower socioeconomic status young women and single mothers seeking help for STDs.

I have chosen the issue of hypertension at this time because I believe is on the top of the triangle coming down to many other branches as a consequence of many medical issues including strokes and heart disease. My goal for this class is working towards the awareness of the end results of hypertension and how to decrease the incidence of it by alternating with non-medical interventions as well. 

It is my believe that hypertension mostly appears with chaotic and worrisome thinking, and with anger. Stress hormones like corticosteroids produce the narrowing of the blood vessels making the heart having to pump blood even harder to supply the entire body of nutrients, which in turn will conclude in many problems of the blood vessels an all its mechanism of action. Meditation and therapeutic talk with a life coach for example, especially on those populations at risk: women after 45 years old, African American, and overweight people, should consider a different lifestyle, like more tranquility, and a better diet before we prescribe hypertensive medication.

According to the website heart.org in most cases heart damage from hypertension occurs overtime and to name a few these damages would include heart attack, stroke, heart failure, kidney disease, vision loss, sexual disfunction, angina, and peripheral artery disease. Unfortunately, when the blood pressure is high for very long time, LDL starts accumulating in the vessel causing the narrowing of the holes where the blood pumped from the heart need to flow.

Summary

By promoting a healthy lifestyle, with peaceful thought to our hectic and anxious daily living, and a diet without mono and polysaturated fats, and cutting out on carbohydrates this can help us to control the accumulation of bad cholesterol on our blood vessels, and as the end result have a much better outcome.

Citation

American Heart association (2023) heart.org