My passion in Nursing Reducing complications that might arise occur due to improper management of chronic diseases has been my goal in nursing, and I held great passion to hypertension and its management. Having lost three of my class mates and close friends from complications of hypertension made me an advocate for creating awareness, and management of hypertension in my community. Hypertension is a single largest risk factor for cardiovascular disease and heart failure among African American (Musinguzi & Nuwaha, 2013). The process for the development of hypertension in African Americans begins at a younger age than in other population groups and the result is significantly worse in target organ damage (
