Abstract

The aim was to identify the challenges of health promotion and prevention encountered by nurses in nursing consultations for hypertensive patients. This is an integrative, descriptive review, carried out between March and September 2021, on the Virtual Health Library Portal, in the following databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences, Bibliographic Index Español en Ciencias de la Salud, Online Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, Nursing Database. The descriptors were: Nursing Consultation, Arterial Hypertension and Primary Care, using the Boolean operator "AND". Inclusion criteria: articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish; available in full; and indexed in the last 05 years. Exclusion criteria: incomplete articles and those outside the purpose of the research. Of the selected articles, 13 met the proposed objective. In these, it was observed that the Nurse in Primary Health Care has as a challenge both to motivate adherence and to encourage the maintenance of the treatment of the hypertensive patient. In this context, in which there is an increase in the number of people with SAH, it is essential that there is resoluteness of assistance in the UBS so that the recommended protocols are fully adhered to by this population.

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