Hypertension Treatment in Primary Care

Session Description: 
This session will review the basic pharmacology for first-line antihypertensive treatments, including specific patients in which certain medications are more appropriate. It will also review personalized approaches to managing hypertension for individuals requiring more than one medication as well as uses for second-line therapies, work-up for concern of secondary hypertension, and lifestyle recommendations.    

Speaker Bio: 
Jordan is a family nurse practitioner and coordinator of a multidisciplinary, RN-pharmacist-led hypertension program. She has worked in this capacity for the last two and a half years. In addition, she is an assistant clinical professor at the MRJ College of Nursing at Montana State University. Her passion in healthcare is education and health promotion. Empowering patients to make meaningful, sustainable changes to improve their wellbeing is the most satisfying part of the work that she does.  

Montana Nurses Association is approved with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation

There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those involved with the ability to control the content of this activity except for Brenda Donaldson who owned stock in Pfizer company and Margaret Hammersla who was a member of Pfizer virtual advisory board, all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

To earn contact hours, learners must watch 100% of the webinar and submit learner feedback and a certificate claim form; you will complete a course feedback form and then be directed to a certificate claim form to enter your name. Certificates will be available for download immediately, or within the learner profile of the learning system. 

Expires 4/1/2026
Contact hours awarded upon successful completion: 1, including 1 RX