Abstract
Objective: Know the strategies used by primary care nurses in health education for hypertensive patients. Methods: This is an integrative review, with searches carried out between September and October 2020, in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências de Saúde e Scientific Electronic Library Online databases, with the following descriptors: health education, nursing, Hypertension and Primary Health Care. Results: The strategies used by nurses to carry out health educational activities aimed at hypertensive patients are: group strategies, waiting room, home visit and Hiperdia consultation. Studies reveal that, often, this education is still based on vertical transmission and emphasizes the importance of establishing a bond and dialogue so that the awareness of the person with SAH is effective. Final considerations: The traditional models, centered on the biomedical model, with a focus on banking education, are still predominant in educational practices. Nurses, inserted in Primary Health Care scenarios, need to know and empower themselves with other educational strategies.