...Health Promotion through Patient Education Marianne Green Grand Canyon University February 25, 2012 Health Promotion through Patient Education “The current care systems cannot do the job. Trying harder will not work. Changing systems of care will” (The National Academies Press, 2010, p. 41). Health care transformation has become a major focus in the United States. Implementing these changes requires a complete overhaul of the current system through changes in approaches, guidelines and direction in patient care. With the increasing amount of elderly entering the health care system, insurance premiums on the rise and health costs increasing contribute to this disparity. Individuals with unhealthy lifestyles such as drug use, alcoholism, and poor eating habits also drive health care costs higher. The meaning of “health promotion” has been defined as helping people to change their lifestyles and enable them to move toward a state of optimal health. In a paper written by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1980, health promotion was set forth as a process that would advocate health and will likely enhance personal (individual, family and community), private (professional and business) and public government(local, state, and federal). The goal is that through support of positive health practices, a societal norm will evolve (Edelman & Mandle, 2009). As each individual goes through life, health promotion serves as a service that helps humans to be able to function...
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...Diversity among individuals, as well as cultures, provides a challenge for nurses when it comes to delivering meaningful health promotion and illness prevention-based education. How do teaching principles, varied learning styles (for both nurses and patients), and teaching methodologies impact the approach to education? How do health care providers overcome differing points of view regarding health promotion and disease prevention? Provide an example. Nurses are exposed daily to different cultures and beliefs working in the healthcare field. On top of the diversity, we should be aware of their level of education along with their style of learning, this way it will allow the nurse to formulate the best teaching method possible for the patient. Patients with cultural differences may not be willing to participate in the education or even incorporate it into their lifestyle. There must be a form of trust to initiate any formal teaching. Assessing their ideas and values related to their health and illness, medication being taken, treatments rendered, and expectations are a good platform for an effective teaching/learning to begin. Healthcare professionals should learn about the cultural background of our patients paying attention to their body language and expressions. Cultural stereotyping must definitely be avoided and be sensitive to their needs. Teaching should be a multidisciplinary team effort that includes the therapy department, dietician, and social worker incorporating...
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...IOM Impact On Nursing Future In October of 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. In 2008, a committee was formed to evaluate, and make changes to the nursing career. Nurses, play an important role in health system, specifically at the time in America where health care has change greatly, and the health system had to make adjustment. IOM View on Nursing Education Education is the key point for every career, and as human there are great demands out there from, jobs, parents, and society to improve our educational level, and academic life. The focus on advancing one educational level starts with the demand from society. Most jobs, or career requires from every staff, higher knowledge, degree or certifications, along with continuous training in order to obtain any supervisory, administrative, or managerial position. The demand for the nursing career derived from the IOM which is a self-regulating group of well-known experts from various professions (IOM). Health specialists should have higher education in order to provide patient care, and as participants of this collaborative team, their main focus should be about quality care improvement, along with approaches on evidence-based practice, and some specifics information about individual expertise (IOM 2010). The plan is to encourage the minimum of 10% of baccalaureate program graduates to...
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...head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion: Educating The Nurse and The Public Kurt Luedtke Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Vicki Denson Health Promotion The Healthy People 2010 report designates nursing as one of the prime proponents of health promotion. Nurses are the largest single group of health care providers in the United States with an estimated 2.6 million registered nurses practicing (ANA) throughout the country. As the largest field of health care providers nurses will have a huge affect on health promotion and health education through community, hospital and legislative based activity. More importantly, health promotion will need to be a greater part of the nursing education curriculum as nursing education has had a heavy emphasis on acute care and health education but only recently has there been an emphasis on health promotion. The World Health Organization [WHO] defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health (WHO, 1986, p. 1). WHO broadly describes health as well being in the social, the mental, the environmental and the physical attributes of an individual or group not just a state from being free from disease. The idea that health promotion can help achieve health by assisting individuals and groups to become more active in their own health by various means such as education, promoting positive lifestyle choices, health screening...
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...Health Promotion 1 Literature Review Bressy Thomas Grand Canyon University Health Promotion 2 Health promotion involves motivation and improvement in someone’s health and identifies their potential health problems. From the literature reviews, Health promotion defined in different ways. Literature, Worldviews on Evidence-base nursing, explains health promotion as, Etiologically –driven socio-political-economic determinants of health are addressed. This serves to counter social inaction and social division/inequality. It is an inherently political process…that leads to community coalitions through shared radical consciousness. Health promotion looks to develop and reform social structures…between representative stakeholders in different sectors and agencies. (Whitehead 2004b) Looking after community, looking after their lifestyles and advising them really on their needs and how...
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...The Evolution of Nursing in Health Promotion The evolution of nursing in health promotion is a continual ongoing process. In order to understand the realm and responsibility of nursing in regards to this perpetually advancing field there are parameters that need to be identified and defined. First and foremost it is important to understand that health promotion has always been the overall focus of nursing. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health promotion as a process that enables people to increase control over and to improve their health. The basis no longer focuses simply on individual behaviors but has evolved to include social and environmental factors as to affect global change in health promotion there by empowering not only individuals but entire cultures to make the necessary health promotion changes that will lead to a better future for their own societies. In order to succeed in health promotion nursing must continue to evolve. The Three Levels of Health Promotion Prevention The three levels of health promotion prevention consist of primary, secondary and tertiary preventions. Generally speaking any prevention in regards to health promotion is aimed at reducing risks. The first step is primary prevention. Interventions at this level of promotion are aimed at education, encouraging healthy life-style changes such as smoking cessation, exercise, childhood immunization programs, promotion of good nutrition, promoting regular health check-ups and avoiding life...
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...Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion Literature Review Jennifer L. Gallo Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion 429V April 22, 2012 Jennifer L. Cook RN, MSN Running Head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion “describes a multifaceted approach to encourage health related lifestyle changes among individuals and communities” and “aims to allow people to increase their control over their health and the factors that affect it with the ultimate aim of enhancing health and its determinants.” (Bennett, Perry & Lawrence, 2009, pg. 49). This essay will discuss the purpose of health promotion, the role and responsibility assumed by nurses in health promotion, implementation of health promotion by nurses, and will identify and define the three levels of health promotion prevention. Until the mid-twentieth century, health care was illness orientated. Main causes of death up to that point were related to infectious disease. Around 1940, chronic illnesses including heart disease, stroke, and cancer became the leading of deaths. (McLeroy & Crump,1994). As the focus of health care changed, the role of nursing changed as well. Historically, nurses provided care to the ill and provided treatment for diseases without necessarily emphasizing health education. As healthcare has evolved, promoting wellness has become a fundamental part of the nursing profession. Nurses are in a position to influence health modification in individuals, families...
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...Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V September 8, 2013 Review of Literature Health Promotion is the concern with physical, social, and mental wellbeing that strives to help people take control over the matters that influence their life. In addition, to enable people to increase control of their health, improve their health, and optimize their quality of life. The concept of health promotion was developed to emphasize the community-based practice of health promotion, community participant and health promotion practice. Health promotion can be encompassed with any disease either acute or chronic. When underlining the definition health promotion in relationship to hypertension it is defined as “effect of anti-hypertensive patient-oriented education and in-home monitoring for medication adherence and management of hypertension, by providing education of healthy lifestyle behaviors and medication adherence”(Hacihasanoglu & Gozum, 2011, p. 692). This means to change the behaviors to one’s lifestyle along with medication compliance an individual can achieve control of and a better well-being while living with hypertension. Nurses’ purpose to health promotion is to assist in education, promotion, planning, implementation, and goal setting to patient, groups, and communities. We are the largest group of health professional, we have the potential to contribute substantially in the area of health promotion. The nurses’ responsibility as it relates...
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...Health promotion is an essential health care issue that should be implemented by all members of the health care team (Hosseini, Torab, Taghdisi, & Vardanjani, 2013). Nurses play a critical role in health promotion for patients, family, and community because we provide direct patient care and are able to see the whole picture of the client’s situation. The population of people with chronic illness is increasing and the health care needs of clients is trending in an upward fashion (Jadelhack, 2012). As members of the health care field, it is critical that nurses take a proactive approach in preventing the increasing trend of chronic, complex illnesses by promoting health for our patients, family, and the community. There are three levels of health promotion that nurses can focus on including primary, secondary, and tertiary which will improve the health care system and the health of our society (Godwin, 2010). Implementing health promotion process gives people the opportunity to take control over actions and gives them the tools to improve lifestyle behaviors in order to optimize health (Jadelhack, 2012). The framework for health promotion is comprised of theories that include behavior, social sciences, and evidence based research (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). Health promotion includes proactive participation at all levels of society and requires a multi-faceted approach by health care team members (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). By providing effective health promotion...
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...Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS 429v Melanie Escobar, RN MSN March 17, 2012 Health Promotion In today’s society people have taken for granted that they are healthy. Then when something changes in regards to their health they are generally stunned. People, in general, do not see how their health affects every facet of their lives. This paper will define health promotion and its purpose. It will further discuss what our roles as nurses are in the grand scheme of health promotion. Health promotion is further broken down into three levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, all which benefit the individual. Health Promotion There are various definitions of health promotion, but the U.S. Public Health Service states that health promotion is “the process of advocating health in order to enhance the probability that personal, private, and public support of positive health practices will become a societal norm” (Edelman & Mandle, 2009). For health promotion to be a successful process people must take control over all aspects in relation to their health and their lives. No longer can they blame someone or something when their health declines. People must be held accountable for their life decisions in relation to their health. Purpose of Health Promotion The purpose of health promotion is to not only educate people in regards to their health, but also enlighten them to gain control...
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...Health Promotion in Nursing Practice What is health promotion? Health promotion is defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health (World Health Organization, n.d.). It involves a combination of health education and related organizational, political, and economic changes aimed at improving health (Hooyman & Kiyak, 1999). Health promotion also focuses on empowering individuals, families, and communities in developing competence and capabilities t required gaining control over daily life events and circumstances, thereby achieving a sense of security. Therefore, the ultimate goal of the health promotion model is to promote a sense of well-being, health maintenance, balance in all aspects of life and not just the absence of disease. (GCU, 2013) According to WHO, health promotion is creating the framework for health for all people in their everyday lives. (Fry & Rissel, 2010). For decades, the primary focus of health care has been on the care of the sick but in present day and time, the focus has broadened to determining the cause of illness and prevention of disease, thus enhancing the quality of life and life expectancy in general which can only be achieved by educating the public in health promotion which includes prevention and early detection. With improved health standards and statistics, health care providers have been able to conduct researches helping them isolate the cause, develop treatment and establish methods to decrease...
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...Promoting health is significant in nursing practice. Nurses must be able to work alongside not only patients, but communities, families, and other healthcare professionals to promote a healthy lifestyle and high quality life for all of those involved. This literature review will describe health promotion, its meaning for nurses, and describe the health promotion levels. Definition of Health Promotion The W.H.O. describes health promotion as “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” (WHO,2014). Health promotion is described by Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle as “The science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. The process of advocating health to enhance the probability that person (individual, family, and community), private (professional and business), and public (federal, state, and local government) support of positive health practices will become a societal norm” (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014, Glossary). Health Promotion Purpose The health promotion intent vastly does beyond giving information for a healthier lifestyle. Health promotion focuses on proactive decision-making for all, with specifics to meet the needs of all backgrounds. Nurses work alongside other healthcare team members to meet patients’ needs. It is essential to incorporate patient...
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...Health Promotion in Nursing Marcus Botts Grand Canyon University Health Promotion in Nursing In its most simple definition health promotion is the process of facilitating individuals, groups, and/or communities control their own health. There is a strong compatibility between health promotion and occupational therapy with the earliest discussions dating back more than fifty years ago. The idea of health promotion to prevent illness was highlighted internationally in 1978 at an international Conference on Primary Health Care. The Declaration of Alma-Ata expressed the need for immediate action by all governments, health care workers and developers, as well as the work community to promote and protect the health of people worldwide. (Health Promotion: Future occupational therapy in an ageing New Zealand, p36, 2012). In 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO), released the Ottawa Charter, which is perhaps, the most important document in the field of health promotion. It provides five principles to guide health promotion activities: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and re-orienting health care services toward prevention of illness and promotion of health. These principles provide a vision to which occupational therapy health promotion services should be aligned. (Health Promotion: Future occupational therapy in an ageing New Zealand, p36, 2012). As it relates to health care promotion...
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...OTTAWA DECLARATION AND HEALTH PROMOTIN PRINCIPLE by Dr Ojeremi Taiwo Tosin OUTLINE. Introduction Health Promotion Elements and Components Guiding Principles Consumer Rights and Health Conclusion INTRODUCTION The concept of HEALTH PROMOTION is broader than health education. There was a growing realization that health education can influence knowledge, but on its own may not result in behaviour change. Hence the concept of Health Promotion was defined at the landmark Global Conference on Health promotion. HEALTH PROMOTION Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and it’s determinants, and thereby improve their health. A planned combination of educational, political, regulatory and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups or communities (Green and kreuter,1999.) It is a core function of public health and contributes to the work of tackling communicable and non communicable diseases and other threats to health. Health promotion therefore involves a multidisciplinary application of skills in psychology,anthropology,economic,political theory, consumer rights/law,communication,media design,epidemiology,management,community mobilization and the application of resaerch,planning and evaluation skills. Who does Health Promotion? Health Promotion is part of the role of a wide range of field staff within health and other services....
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...2013 . Health Promotion World Health organization (WHO) defines health promotion as a process of enabling people to increase control over improving their health. It goes beyond focusing on individual health towards social and cultural interventions (World Health organization, 2013). The global conference held in Helsinki explains promotion of health, not focused to a specific health problem nor to a special group, but the strategies applied to a variety of population group, risk factors and diseases in various settings (The 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Helsinki 2013). Health care is evolving rapidly with education and technology to prevent diseases and promote health of public not only in specific group or to special behavior but also spread to wards national wide and reduce cultural disparities (Institute of medicine of the national academies - Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities) Promotion of Health in Nursing Nursing is the major part of evolving health care system and health promotion is a most important aspect of nursing. Contemporary nursing not focus on single illness or specific group but nursing centered on education of public to improve and promote healthy living. Public health nursing established as a special nursing at this time to providing scientific knowledge to public in preventive health care (ANA evolving public health nursing focus on health promotion). Public health nurses have...
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