...Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Zahra Rassouli Grand Canyon University Health promotion is defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health (World Health Organization, 2014). For each individual it is fundamental to understand the aspects of a complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Recognizing what contributes to change and the coping mechanism within the environment is an important aspect. A healthy life style prevents disease and illness from occurring, which is considered primary health promotion; health and social wellbeing are influenced by factors such as socioeconomic conditions, patterns of consumption associated with food and communication, demographic pattern, learning environments, family pattern, cultural and social background (Kumar & Preetha, 2012). Hence, the health promotion of individuals and their communities’ grows beyond behavioral characteristics; the attitude toward a healthier life style and disease prevention is affected by a multitude of factors. In nursing practice the focus of health promotion is to influence the health behaviors of individuals and the communities in an encouraging and optimistic way to primarily prevent illness and disease from occurring; furthermore, by considering the challenges that these individuals are facing, nurses have a broader knowledge on how to establish an environment from which the selected group members are able to recognize and choose the desired life...
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...Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Dulce Cervantes Grand Canyon University NRS 429V: Family Centered Health Promotion Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Health promotion has existed for ages slowly it has progressed to what it is now. Health promotion changed vastly over the last few decades. Health promotion is described as the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 14). Fundamentally it helps the public and the government in preventing and healing any given disease with minimal cost. Nurses have a key purpose in health promotion; they are educators, restore patients to their optimal health, and above all advocates by using the three levels of promotion and health, primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary In the primary level the purpose is to educate the public by taking a proactive approach to promote positive health and properly educate the public. A nurse can educate the public on numerous topics; some specific topic could be use of specific immunizations, personal hygiene, environmental sanitation, and protection from carcinogens (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 16). This focus care can be done at place where it is easy for the community to access such as clinics, urgent cares, and primary care offices. Nurses can also inform the public either on a one to one basis or at medical fairs on what new health assists has been created. Women often place their loved one health...
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...Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Mary Sprague, RN Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Heather Swanson April 13, 2014 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Health promotion has become a key part of healthcare in today’s health industry. Promoting healthy lifestyles and behaviors and prevention of disease has shifted to a forefront position in the arena of healthcare. Health promotion is defined by the World Health Organization as “the process which enables people to improve control over the determinants of health and as a result to improve their own health.”(Jadelhack, 2012, p. 65) Promoting wellness and developing strategies to obtain this including confrontation of obstacles and barriers to wellness has become mainstream in nursing practice. Nurses now incorporate areas of education, practice, methodology, and research which has set them at the cutting edge in health promotion. Studies have shown that health promotion is highly cost-effective and as health costs rise, targeting diseases that are preventable such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, COPD, and communicable diseases such as Hepatitis and HIV can greatly diminish healthcare costs. Promoting prevention rather than just curing disease after it occurs will reduce healthcare costs exponentially. In the past, nurses provided patient education arranged at teaching patients how to manage current illness, the focus was on the present. In today’s nursing the focus is now...
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...The Purpose of Health Promotion in Nursing Practice and the Nurses roles The World Health Organization, (WHO, 1986), defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. As the concept of medicine and health evolved, so has the concept of health promotion. Health care providers including nurses, require an understanding of how economics, environment, culture, education, politics and psychosocial problems influence health, illness, lifestyle and behavior change. Nurses promote health in diverse setting such as hospitals, community, nursing homes, schools, and worksites. Health promotion activities may include raising awareness of health issues, providing information, motivating and persuading people to make changes in their lifestyle or equipping individual with the skills and confidence to make those changes (Naidoo, J. & Wills, ., 2000). The nurse, being on the frontline of patient care, has the ability based on education and experience, to be the driving force of health promotion activities. Nursing education traditionally directed towards the disease-oriented model, where the focus was on diagnosis, physical health and the relief of physical symptoms. It has now evolved to a more patient-centered model, creating a more holistic approach where individuals and families are empowered to make health decisions and are supported in their engagement of health promotion activities. No longer are patient told what...
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...Nursing Practice and the Three Levels of Prevention in Health Promotion Sarah Hughes July 14, 2013 Nursing Practice and the Three Levels of Prevention in Health Promotion In nursing practice there are three levels of prevention in health promotion- primary, secondary, and tertiary. Prevention consists of not only preventing diseases and other ailments, but curing them and limiting their progression. Primary prevention consists of health promotion and specific protection. Secondary prevention consists of early diagnosis, timely treatment, and limiting disability. Tertiary prevention consists of restoration and rehabilitation (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 14). These three levels of prevention don’t necessarily flow from one into the next but do have a tendency to overlap. In three recent journal articles in nursing practice, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in health promotion are discussed. The primary prevention article discusses how effective motivational interviewing can be in health promotion. It mentions that motivational interviewing can help people understand their lifestyle problems and help them make the necessary changes in their lifestyle to see a positive outcome, which is having a healthy life. It also mentions that it takes a bit of work from the nurse to be able to master this skill and become effective at it. The secondary prevention article discusses secondary prevention of diabetes among health promoters. It discusses how health...
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...levels of Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Cristian Zambrana Grand Canyon University: Family Centered health promotion July 4, 2014 Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary levels of Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Health promotion is the sustained process of improving the health levels in society (O’Donnell, 2009). The definition of health promotion was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the organization’s Ottawa Charter. The charter was signed in 1986. The original definition was slightly altered in 2005 at the WHO’s Bangkok Health Summit to include the ability of one to increase the knowledge and control of their health. The designation of health promotion has been adopted although individual countries have been awarded the privilege to decide on how best to implement health promotion. The WHO designed three health models that have influenced the growth of health promotion. The first was the biomedical model of health that focuses on the behaviors and lifestyle of an individual. The biomedical model does not treat individuals based on their environment. The second is the social model that takes into account society’s collective behavior to create a common universal health promotion plan. The third is the ecological model, which takes into account the relationship between the individual and their surrounding environment (VicHealth, 2013). The different environmental systems that directly affect health are observed...
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...levels of Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Cristian Zambrana Grand Canyon University: Family Centered health promotion July 4, 2014 Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary levels of Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Health promotion is the sustained process of improving the health levels in society (O’Donnell, 2009). The definition of health promotion was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the organization’s Ottawa Charter. The charter was signed in 1986. The original definition was slightly altered in 2005 at the WHO’s Bangkok Health Summit to include the ability of one to increase the knowledge and control of their health. The designation of health promotion has been adopted although individual countries have been awarded the privilege to decide on how best to implement health promotion. The WHO designed three health models that have influenced the growth of health promotion. The first was the biomedical model of health that focuses on the behaviors and lifestyle of an individual. The biomedical model does not treat individuals based on their environment. The second is the social model that takes into account society’s collective behavior to create a common universal health promotion plan. The third is the ecological model, which takes into account the relationship between the individual and their surrounding environment (VicHealth, 2013). The different environmental systems that directly affect health are observed...
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...Assessment of the child: Functional Health Pattern Analysis Worksheet Cristian Zambrana Grand Canyon University: NRS-434V August 8, 2014 Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) | Toddler Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) | Preschool-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Initiative vs. Guilt (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) | School-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Industry vs. Inferiority. (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) | Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group. List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group. | When a toddler feels bad they say they are sick. Health management is dependent on caregivers. Brushing teeth and washing hands are basic health promotional activities that a toddler can perform at direction of parent. | Preschoolers can verbalize pain. Preschoolers are curious about body their own bodies and its functions Preschoolers have an accurate perception of the external parts of their own bodies. Preschoolers view the internal part of body as hollow. | School-age children are aware of how their own body functions and when it is ailing School-aged children have an abstract understanding of the definition of health and factors causing illness and recognize...
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...Health Promotion in Nursing Practice 1 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Amber Rose Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V July 25, 2014 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice 2 A wise man once said, “To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” (Brainy Quotes, 2011). Buddha’s idea of taking control of ones health is the very idea behind health promotion. Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health (WHO, 2012). The goal of health promotion is to help prevent the spread of disease or premature death, while promoting healthy living choices. Nurses are an important piece to this process. The concern for nurses it to promote health promotion in nursing practice, help implement methods for health promotion, and to explain and educate the three levels of health promotion prevention. Health Promotion in Nursing Practice The purpose of health promotion in nursing practice is to educate, influence and aid the patient to maintain an existing quality of life by preventing illness, and if illness is present, help slow progression by managing the symptoms (). Nurses are constantly educating patients with every interaction. A new Essence of Care benchmark will expect nurses to promote good health with every patient contact, as this creates more opportunities to provide education (). Nurses educate the patient by providing facts, statistics...
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...COMMUNITY HEALTH ISSUES FOCUS The role of communitybased nurses in health promotion Dean Whitehead Dean Whitehead is Lecturer, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing, University of Hull, East Riding Campus, Hull art of the ongoing process of National Health Service (NHS) reforms involves bringing about fundamental change in the way that primary health care is delivered in the UK (Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS), 1987; Department of Health (DoH), 1989a, 1996; Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee (SNMAC), 1995). A considerable amount of discursive and legislative documentation has accompanied these reforms, which served to provide a ‘springboard’ for debate on current and future directions of health-related policy (DoH, 1989b, 1993a,b, 1997, 1998). There has also been a concerted and longstanding request for community nurses to adopt and incorporate both health promotion and educational activities into their workload. In the late 1980s, in its document Promoting Better Health: the Government’s Programme for P ABSTRACT It is the responsibility of all nurses to incorporate health promotional and health educational activities into their professional roles. Much of the literature around this issue relates to the specific role of community-based nurses in the primary healthcare team, and identifies their unique position and responsibility for pioneering the universal acceptance and adoption of health-promoting practices. Community-based...
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...What is Health Promotion? Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V August 04, 2013 What is Health Promotion? This paper will discuss the meaning of health promotion as defined in the textbook Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span. The author will also cover the purpose of health promotion in nursing practice as well as nursing responsibilities and roles that are evolving in health promotion. Lastly, the author will explain implementation methods for health promotion that encompasses all areas of nursing as well as comparing the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health promotion prevention. Health promotion can be defined in many ways. One definition from the textbook Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span defines it as “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health” as well as “the process of advocating health in order to enhance the probability the personal (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 & Mandle, 2010).” If the term health promotion is broken down and defined individually then health is defined as the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit and promotion is defined as the act of furthering the growth or development of something (Merriam Webster, 2013). In the nursing practice the purpose...
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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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...Health Promotion Deanna Caswell Family Centered Health Promotion March 3rd, 2013 Health Promotion Health promotion has a variety of definitions. One being as simple as, a science and art that assists people to change lifestyle toward a state of optimal health (O’Donnell, 1997), to more complex as a process of advocating health to increase the chance that personal, private , and public support of positive health practices will become a societal norm” (Kreuter & Devore, 1980, p. 26). Despite the variances in definition health promotion is geared towards persuading public the benefits of a living a lifestyle free of negative health behaviors. The purpose of health promotion in nursing practice is to switch gears from protection of certain diseases to focus on improving the general health of the people they serve. Health promotion has changed the roles and responsibilities of nurses. Increasing demands are placed on nurses as healthcare has shifted from an acute, hospital-based care to preventive, community-based care. The home is now the primary place healthcare takes place. Reimbursement for hospital care is less resulting in shorter stays. Nurses must take on additional roles and play a bigger part of disease prevention and health promotion. A greater emphasis is being placed on nurses being more independent in their practice. Nurses are expected to be increasingly accountable morally and legally for their behavior. Nursing has evolved into many roles as advocates...
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...Levels of Health Promotion in Nursing Practice. Victoria Sanlor Grand Canyon University: NRS 429 April 7, 2013 Levels of Health Promotion in nursing Practice Health promotion in nursing practice is defined as the process of enabling people to increase control and improve awareness of their health (WHO Ottawa Charter 1986) along with optimizing the quality of life. Health promotion can also be describes as behavioral, cognitive, and an emotional endeavor to promote health and the well being of people. Other focuses involved the interaction of strategy based evidence and activities that is used by individuals. Three different levels of health promotion are primary, secondary and tertiary, which are the basis of nursing practice. The purpose of Health promotion in nursing practice is as follows. Health promotion is identified as active participation of individuals and family with health care delivery. Nurses influence those goals by reinforcing the importance of maintaining healthy habits such as yearly exams, follow up appointments, proper diet, and motivation to adopt a healthier life style behavior. Nurses need to also educate and counsel them in the need to take more autonomy of their health. Allowing patients to ask questions and encouraging feedback is important in proper communication between patient and health care providers (WHO Ottawa Charter 1986). Nursing roles and responsibilities are evolving in health promotion in the following manner. The first...
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