A blood-pressure diary and shared equipment

Setting: A primary care nursing clinic

A patient has an incomplete home diary because a borrowed monitor is often unavailable. The practice can review access options and confirm the existing measurement plan; no readings are supplied.

Task

Explore the concern behind the opening: "You asked me to bring a week of readings, but I only managed two days."
Clarify the specific barrier and acknowledge its effect on the patient.
Explain the supplied next steps and respond to this possible question: "Would it be better if I guessed what the other numbers probably were?"
Check the patient can distinguish what is agreed from what needs confirmation.

A blood-pressure diary and shared equipment supplied plan

A patient has an incomplete home diary because a borrowed monitor is often unavailable. The practice can review access options and confirm the existing measurement plan; no readings are supplied.
The nurse can record which days were completed and the equipment-access problem without inventing missing readings.
The practice can discuss an available loan or clinic option and confirm how that fits the patient's existing measurement plan.
Do not interpret absent readings as normal, diagnose from unsupplied values or change medication.
We can record the two completed days and the fact that the monitor was unavailable on the others. Please leave those gaps as gaps rather than create numbers.
The practice can check whether a loan or clinic measurement option is available. We then need to confirm how that fits your existing plan, including when the actual readings should be recorded and reviewed.

Fictional exam scenario only. Supplied arrangements are not medical guidance for a real patient..