Approaches to Disease Management: Hypertension

You see a 3-year-old with hypertension (documented on three different visits) in your primary care clinic. From the perspective of a nurse practitioner:

• Describe the workup, differential diagnoses, assessment, and management.
• How would your plan of care be different if the child were 10 years old?
• What risk factor counseling and advice would you include?
  
  

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources published within the last five years. 
• in paragraph form, no bullet points or numbering.