...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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...Health Promotion Literature Review Rebecca Turner Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V October 28, 2012 Health Promotion Literature Review Health promotion is a well-known term in nursing, with authors arguing that health promotion is central to the philosophy of nursing (Irvine, 2007). After studying three selected articles regarding the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health promotion, a similar theme referring to the role of the nurse to develop a more holistic understanding of health promotion in all stages of life and refreshing the concept of health promotion in order to advocate for the changing world’s environment, was apparent. Traditional health promotion preventions are defined by preventing disease, restoring health, and containing illness (Irvine, 2007). Today, health promotion is defined not just by focusing on health education, lifestyle and behavioral changes, but has undertaken a new paradigm, empowering clients by taking political and social action to promote health enhancing environments (Irvine, 2007). Nurse practice involves all stages of the lifespan in a variety of settings, ranging from the family home to communities (Whitehead, 2011). In these settings, nurse health promotion practice proposes developing personal skills, building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action and reorienting health services (Roden & Jarvis, 2012). Nurse roles and responsibilities are evolving by...
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...Review of Health Promotion A Literature Review of Health Promotion Lilian .N. Abagwe Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS 429 October 16, 2011 Abstract Historically, the United States has been sickness oriented. But in the last twenty years, a new model has surfaced. The new model lays emphasis on wellness rather than sickness. As a result in this change in focus, health promotion is now a fundamental part of nursing profession. This article will review recent literature from three professional sources relative to nursing profession and health promotion. This paper will examine; (a) Definition of health promotion. (b) Purpose of health promotion in nursing practice. (c) Evolving nursing roles and responsibilities in health promotion. (d) Explain the implementation methods for health promotion. (e) Compare the three levels of health promotion prevention. Health promotion is defined as “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The purpose of health promotion in nursing practice is to enable people make healthy choices. According Smeltzer & Bare (2006), the purpose of health promotion...
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...Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING PRACTICE Health Promotion In Nursing Practice Elizabeth Carhuapoma Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429 April Herrera July 08, 2012 Health Promotion In Nursing Practice As health care evolves and changes, the roles of nurses in health promotion and prevention have expanded greatly. The goal is to prevent disease from occurring rather than taking a reactive position of treating the client once disease has already occurred. Health defined by Edelman and Mandle is a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that allows a person to reach their individual potential for optimal health (Edelman & Mandle, n.d.). In order to reach these goals, levels of prevention have been defined and nurses take an active role in the implementation of positive changes in clients’ lifestyle. On each level of the health promotion continuum, the nurse has to keep in mind the clients’ cultural and educational background to develop mutually agreed- upon goals. “Primary care providers, including nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses, now attempt to involve individuals and their families in the delivery of care, teaching individuals about individual responsibilities and lifestyle choices has become an important part of their job”(Edelman & Mandle, p. 9). These positive changes improve the quality of the clients’ and families lives. The three- levels of health care promotion are primary...
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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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...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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...Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING PRACTICE Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Student Name University Name Date In the past health was defined as simply the absence of any illness of disease. There was never any thought about what might be happening to a person under the surface. Later the definition of health was changed to include not just the absence of disease but also a person’s mental well-being. Health promotion is the attempt to bring about improvements in a single person’s health status or even an entire community’s health status (Tabers, 2005). Health promotion in nursing practice is brought about through the actions which help people to maintain their health. No longer do nurses simply hand out information. Instead nurses actually promote change in their patients. The patients that nurses teach may not be receptive to the change, but with the nurses encouragement the patient gains knowledge which eventually brings about better health. The nurse is present throughout each stage of acceptance continuing to guide and educate when a patient reverts back to old behavior (Edelman, 2009). The nurse’s roles and responsibilities are evolving in health promotion because society is evolving. The care of patients has become much more prevalent within communities instead of just in hospitals. People also receive care in their homes much more often now than in the past where all care took place in a hospital. Nurses use evidence-based...
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...Health Promotion and Nursing Betsy Owens Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion October 3, 2013 Health Promotion in Nursing Health promotion is very important to the nursing profession. It is one of the most important aspects of their career and should be practiced from the first day they are a nurse. It not only helps the patient to live a more healthy life, but a longer life without complications. Nurses take on many roles in health promotion, and as such should know the definition. The definition of health promotion varies throughout the nursing field. One such definition is “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.” (Greiner & Edelman, 2010). This means to help people through teaching to change the way they live to be at their healthiest. Another definition states, “the process of advocating health in order to enhance the probability that 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” (Greiner & Edelman, 2010). This could be construde as encouraging people on a larger scale to live healthier making the normal way to live. Both definitions center around helping people to learn how to live with positive health practices, so that they may live healthier and longer. The nurse is the first line of health promotion...
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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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...Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V Christy Lundy June 15, 2014 Review of Literature Health Promotion Defined Health promotion is a discipline that seeks to improve the health of individuals and communities through education, behavioral change, and environmental improvement (The University of Oklahoma). Health promotion does not include education alone. It consists of proactive decision making taken by individuals, families, and communities to promote and sustain an optimal level of health. Health promotion can be broken down into two parts, active and passive. In passive health promotion, the individual is not actively participating. An example of passive health promotion would be government regulation, including FDA approvals or sanitation programs. Active health promotion involves the individual actively participating. Active health promotion would include an individual choosing to eat a proper, healthy diet or performing daily exercises. Purpose of Health Promotion in Nursing Nurses play a very influential role in health promotion. As health educators, nurses provide their patients, families, and communities with the necessary information and tools to take responsibility for their health. By implementing the education bestowed upon them, the patient and their families are empowered to make healthier choices and take action to live a healthier lifestyle. This in return, holds the best promise for lowering cost of health care (Edelman &...
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...wrote that nursing is a passionate profession and is akin to a fever in the blood[1], with the hard work and long hours fading in importance against the vocational rewards. But community nursing has shown how the nursing profession is no longer viewed as merely hard work and long hours, it has illustrated nursing is a skill, a crucial facet of government health strategy, and a social and medical science. This passion extends from hard work and includes the profession shifting its core functions providing a flexible service that meets the changing health and social needs of society. The rewards to the profession and the community include personalized and case specific localized care, health program implementation, and guiding improved social trends at the ‘coal face’. Community based nursing is now at the forefront of social awareness and this important benefit is discussed throughout this essay. This essay focuses on the importance of community based nursing to the profession looking at aspects such as the role’s expanded influence on social trends, analysis, palliative care, outreach to vulnerable groups, and program implementation to the wider community. These functions in combination play a key role in ensuring this aspect of the nursing profession is effective in prevention and in tune with society’s needs. Community based nursing comprises several fields of expertise, including community health, public health, home health, and community mental health nursing. This essay...
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...Health Promotion Jennifer Canole-Jackson Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Patricia King April 23, 2013 Health Promotion There are several definitions one can find for health promotion. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. The WHO goes on to state in order for health promotion to be reached, “one must be able to identify and realize aspirations, satisfy needs, and to change or cope with environment”. The basic necessities and conditions required for health consist of peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable eco-system, sustainable resources, social justice and equality (WHO, 2013). The purpose of health promotion in nursing is to support and educate patients to better understand what they can do to maintain optimal health and/or achieve better health. There are three levels of health promotion and include primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary health promotion is the education to prevent disease. The goal is to reduce the patient’s risk for disease. This can be done through several different ways of education. One example is preventing childhood obesity. In an article in the American Journal of Public Health, (AJPH), August 2012, it discussed a project called Be Our Voice. The project was created by several organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the California Medical Association Foundation...
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...Running head: A LOOK INTO HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTION A Look into Health Promotion and Prevention Jody Seddon Family Centered Health Promotion February 12, 2012 A Look into Health Promotion and Prevention Health promotion definitions have varied among the years. Since 1986 the American Journal of Health Promotions gave the definition, which is the most well-known, “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyles to move forward a state of optimal health.” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, ¶ 2) Since then it has become more about one’s own responsibility to take the initiative to live healthier and to obtain the education that one needs to assure they know how to do so. The goal is to prevent a disease from occurring or to lessen the disease and preventing further complications of the disease. “Health is concerned with the state of a person as a whole, including physical, mental and social wellbeing.” (“Promoting health in primary care“, 2010, p. 59) Nurses are imperative into assuring this can and will take place. In order for one to take the responsibility to lead healthier lives we must provide opportunities for education. Most unhealthy people are unaware of how to take care of themselves or how to obtain the information to assist them with the changes that they need. With the changes in healthcare today we must ensure the patients and their families are knowledgeable on their disease and disease processes and ways of prevention so they can take part...
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...Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING Health Promotion in Nursing Kimberly Klessig Grand Canyon University Family Health Promotion NRS429V Sharon Moritz July 5, 2009 Health Promotion in Nursing According to Edelman and Mandel (2006), health promotion is a new field with varying definitions. O’Donnell (2007) defines health promotion as the art and science of helping people to change their lifestyles to move toward a state of optimal health. Patients need to become motivated to reach this goal with the assistance of nursing care, nursing diagnoses, and nursing goals to strengthen their personal awareness, motivation, skill-building, and personal support systems to find this positive place in their own lives and healthcare. This change of health promotion is a joint effort between the patient, their families, their community, private supports through business and professional groups, and, lastly, public health programs with local, state, and federal governments. Health promotion not only offers helpful information, but also assists the patient in making decisions regarding health care such as health screening information, care of minor illnesses, emergency preparedness, management of chronic disease, and making environmental changes to better their own positive behaviors (Folding, 1988). Societal disease prevention is the focus of public health. This is where the project Health People 2010 comes into play. Healthy People was first...
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...Running Head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING The role of nursing has always been one of caring for a person holistically, not just focusing on the disease a person may have. With today’s patient population suffering from chronic diseases more often than not, health promotion through education, prevention and intervention has become ever more important. Patients today have a broader range of illness and co-morbidities and current populations have also required nurses to more widely adapt their tools to more directly connect with their patients and increase retention and compliance. Health Promotion Defined Health, from one source, is defined as, “…a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context” (Edelman and Mandle, 2010, p. 7). Health promotion is the advancement of these states by means of changing lifestyle habits, eating habits, increasing exercise, and myriad other life choices. The choices that patients decide to make in their lives can often be grouped by the types of illnesses, diseases, symptoms and developmental stages in which a patient finds themselves. Health promotion for a group of general practitioners in the United Kingdom is stated as, “…a wide range of activities including holistic strategies encompassing behaviour [sic] change, health education, community development, empowerment, prevention and protection…” (Doody & Doody, 2012, p.318). This...
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