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Anxiety is a normal adaptive response to stress due to surgery. Anxiety caused by fear of pain, fear of physical changes and not functioning normally after surgery, one of the ways to overcome it is with relaxation and distraction techniques, namely with religious music therapy. The purpose of this case study was to describe the application of religious music therapy "Demi Masa" to decrease the anxiety level of preoperative patients with regional sub arachnoid anesthesia blocks in hospitals in the surgical room of RSUD K.R. Wongsonegoro Semarang. This study belongs to descriptive using a case study approach. Subjects in this study were appendicitis patients who would undergo surgery with sub-arachonoid block regional anesthesia, willing to be respondents aged 20-40 years, still cooperative, level of anxiety from mild 14 - 20 to moderate 21-27, like religious music, Muslim. Analysis of anxiety level was carried out descriptively and measured based on anxiety scale without rating scale for anxiety. The results of the analysis showed that there was a decrease in the level of anxiety after the intervention. In subject I moderate anxiety (score 25) became low anxiety (score 15) and low subject II anxiety (score 15) became no anxiety (score 9). In conclusion, this study recommends nurses can apply religious music therapy "Demi Masa" to reduce the patient's anxiety level preoperatively.

Background : Hypertension is a medical condition characterized by increased contraction of arteries which causes resistance to blood flow which increases blood pressure against the walls of blood through narrow blood vessels. Objective : To determine the effect of finger grip relaxation techniques and deep breathing on reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients. Methods : Research design with descriptive method with case study approach. The implementation of Hypertension nursing care was carried out in the internal medicine room starting from June 15 to June 21, 2021. The subjects in this study were 2 patients suffering from hypertension morning and afternoon. Results : After being treated for 3 days, the results showed that the blood pressure of both patients decreased in patient 1 Mr “I” from 180/100 mmHg to 160/90 mmHg, in patients 2 Mrs “S” from 160/100 mmHg to 140/90 mmHg the pain scale of the two patients from 6 (moderate) to 3 (mild) the body is not weak, has started to be energetic and can sleep at night. cooperation between the health team and patients and families is very necessary for the success of nursing care for patients. Conclusion : With the management of finger grip relaxation techniques and deep breathing to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients with the results of the nursing evaluation the problem was partially resolved.