...Community Assessment Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2011, the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high concentration of telecommunications companies. The city of Richardson is located in the North Central Texas, approximately 10 miles north of downtown Dallas. Of the 27.4 square miles contained within the borders of the city, 18.2 square miles lie in Dallas County; the remaining 9.2 square miles, all adjacent to the northern city limit line, fall in Collin County. In 2008, Richardson was ranked as the 18th best place to live in the United States by money magazine. This ranked Richardson the 4th best place to live in Texas. Richardson was the first North Texas city recognized as a best workplace for commuters by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Transportation in 2004. In 2011 the Texas Recreation and Park Society awarded Richardson with the Texas Gold Medal for excellence in the field of recreation and park management. The average sale price for a home in Richardson is about $180,000; average apartment rent is $833. The median family income is $69, 724. Median age of the Richardson population is 35; average household size is 2.69 persons. Richardson’s retail base centers, around the Richardson Square Mall, with about 80 stores. Restaurants from fast-food franchises to full-service...
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...Person Environment Health Nursing Person Individual Family Community Population Environment Local/national/ global Ethical Legal Ecological Physical Sociocultural Political Economic Historical Technological Nursing Professional Attributes Professional Knowledge Professional (Caring) Practices Health A state of being that people define in relation to their own values, personality and lifestyle -Potter & Perry, 2009 WHAT IS A CONCEPT? - abstract ideas or mental images of a phenomena (Kozier et al., 2010; Paley, 1996) - words that bring forth mental pictures of the properties and meanings of objects, events, or things (Kozier et al., 2010) WHAT IS A CONCEPT? “abstractions” (Norris, 1982) “mental formulations” (Chinn & Kramer, 1991) “mental images” (Meleis, 1985) “words describing mental images (Fawcett, 1989) “have meanings” (Allan, 1993) “have usages” (Rush & Ouellet, 1993) “have definitions” (Brown, 1993) Metaparadigm Concepts: Person Environment Nursing Health Concepts evolve out of impressions, perceptions or experiences…a mental image of reality framed by the individual’s perception or experience (Meleis, 1985) Classifications of Health Conceptualizations 1) Stability oriented 2) Actualization oriented 3) Combined Actualization and Stability Oriented Historical Approaches to Health in Canada 1) Medical Approach Stability orientation to health Emphasis is medical...
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...The Transtheoretical Model I. Introduction A. History of TTM B. Why the TTM is used for health promotion Thesis - The Transtheoretical Model is and will continue to be one of the most popular in the behavior change field due to its uniqueness and effectiveness. II. Transtheoretical Model A. Overview of the TTM B. Constructs of TTM III. Journal Article w| Transtheoretical Model A. How constructs are applied B. Critique on the model Shaquia Lewis UIN: 00965263 CRN: 29315 I pledge to support the Honor System of Old Dominion University. I will refrain from any form of academic dishonesty or deception, such as cheating or plagiarism. I am aware that as a member of the academic community it is my responsibility to turn in all suspected violations of the Honor Code. I will report to a hearing if summoned. The Transtheoretical Model The Transtheoretical Model has tremendously helped the health field progress to more inclusive approaches to research and other practices [2]. In the 1970s, James Prochaska laid the foundations for this model. In the 1990s, two scales were developed using the model [2]. This model is used for health promotion because it enables people to make behavioral changes and improve their health. The Transtheoretical Model is and will continue to be one of the most popular in the behavior change field due to its uniqueness and effectiveness. The Transtheoretical Model has six constructs with two being broken...
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...Optimal living is established by successfully embracing a healthy balance in all aspects of one’s life and implementing lifestyle adaptations to ensure this elevated level of wellness moving forward. Healthy living habits include: adequate rest, censoring stress, preserving quality social relationships, regular exercise, and quality nutrition. These behaviors synergistically working together will improve employees’ quality of life, as well as the quality of their work. The following are proven strategies from peer-reviewed resources that will enable employees to improve their quality of life, which in turn will lead companies into a more productive future. Optimal Living is generally an afterthought of employees, one that follows a promotion or other work advancement when time becomes available to be devoted to developing a healthy way of life plan. Recent findings are reordering these actions and provide...
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...Unit 8: Promoting Health and Well-being You must create a health promotion campaign from one of the following sectors: * Health * Early years (Care and education) * Care of older people * Individuals with specific needs Your target group must be one of the following client groups: * people who are ill * young children * older people * people with specific needs Your report must include evidence from the following: * knowledge and understanding of the topic addressed by your promotion, and a considered and appropriate choice of target group * the planning of your promotion including: aims and objectives, the health promotion model(s)/approach (es) chosen, and the methods used to measure the success of the promotion * implementation of your health promotion, the use and development of appropriate media and materials, and an analysis of the success of your health promotion * D* the evaluation outcomes of your health promotion. When you carry out interviews or activities with clients as part of your internally assessed work it is essential that you obtain the client’s consent and maintain full confidentiality throughout. Opportunity for learners to be assessed on Quality of Written Communication (QWC) — (i-iii). Mark Scheme: This is the mark scheme taken from mark band C (highest mark band). Use this as a guideline. The learner demonstrates excellent skills in obtaining information from at least three sources...
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...The topic that I chose for my organizational behavior project was managing stress and the work-life balance. I chose this topic after doing the wheel of life project in class. When I did that activity I was amazed to see how far off my work-life balance was. From what my ideal wheel of life looked like compared to my actual wheel of life they were way opposite from each other. There were some other students around me that had similar appearances but not quite as drastic as mine was. So after that activity I decided that I would look into other’s work-life balance and how they manage stress. To narrow my results I chose to look at others in the same profession that I am in, nursing. To research this topic I talked or interviewed other nurses including co-workers and other classmates, I handed out a brief five question survey and a wheel of life activity for them to fill out and return to me and I also used the text for ways to improve work-life balance and reduce stress. So after a staff meeting I handed out several surveys and spoke with about 8 co-workers. I received 24 surveys back and only about 7 wheel of life activities. The things that I spoke with the other nurses about were things such as; what causes stress, what relives their stress, how stress effects their lives, what could their employer do to lower stress, and does the employer offer them assistance already in creating a more balance in their work and life. The survey that was handed out had 5 questions on it...
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...OrientationWARD 17Pediatric WardBSN Clinical Practice VI AN 3320 * Clinical Learning Objective: 1. Provide individualized quality care to all assigned clients following the nursing process 2. Perform management and organizational ability during the provision of nursing care 3. Apply critical appraisal skills to evaluate the available evidence which underpins practice 4. Plan health promotion activities for clients and family to maintain appropriate behaviors to attain or maintain health 5. Integrate significance of research in clinical practice to achieve best patient outcomesSpecific Objectives: * Plan timely execution of nursing task in the ward * Perform independent learning through self-study and reflective practice * Effectively use up to date information through electronic access of literature and searching database * Critically evaluate an aspect of service delivery that can influence the quality of healthcare system * Utilize assessment, benchmarking audit and quality assurance tools effectively * Incorporate evidence based interventions in healthcare delivery and meeting health inequalities...
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... Executive Summary Company fitness programs have become the necessary for companies in order to be more productive and profitable. Many companies are now showing their concerns for employee’s health related issues and have developed on-site fitness center. I intend to establish on-site fitness centers for employees to become physically and mentally strong and hence their productivity will increase. Therefore, this proposal will highlight the key benefits of on-site fitness centers and will also identify the requirements, costs, and time for establishing on-site fitness centers. The main objective of on-site fitness centers is to reduce health care expenditures of the employer. Companies spend millions of dollars every year on employee’s health issues. Moreover, employee’s absenteeism and turnover rate have been a serious problem for productivity and profitability of companies. Estimates indicate employee’s health care cost and absenteeism rate will decline with the addition of on-site physical fitness facilities. Hence the end-result for the company would be higher productivity and profitability. Many studies have been conducted to determine the benefits of company fitness programs. According to research found at Wellnessproposals.com findings concluded that employer’s health care and absenteeism costs decline by $3.27 and $2.73 respectively for every dollar it spends on fitness programs. Therefore, with the acquisition of on-site fitness centers profitability for the...
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...1. According to this article, what do you think is the purpose of the study? (25-30 words) The purpose of this study is to allow the researchers to observe health trends more closely and get latest information about Singaporean’s health, lifestyle and their habits ("NUS to conduct Singapore Health 2012 survey," 2012). (27 words) 2. In paragraph 2, the “Singapore Health 2012” survey “aims to reach more than 3,000 participants”. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a survey method? (150-250 words) There are many advantages and disadvantages of a survey method. The advantages of a survey method are that it lets researchers to gather a significant number of data in a short period time and is less expensive compare to most of the other data collection methods. In addition, survey can also collect information on variety of things, including personal facts, attitudes, past behaviors and opinions (Cherry, n.d.). Moreover, if there is a very large sample size, it will make the results statistically important even when exploring several variables (CSU, 2012). The disadvantage of a survey method is that it must be properly managed; the result of poor survey construction and administration can render the survey useless. Also, the answers provided on a survey may not be accurate of how the person truly feels. The response rates of a survey can bias the results of it (Cherry, n.d.). Besides, it may be hard for the person to remember information or to state the face about...
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...Maternal awareness of health promotion, parental and preschool childhood obesity (6, n=200)=17.32, p=0.008). Maternal awareness of health promotion on healthy eating appeared to have a protective effect against overweight/obesity in three year old children (odds ratio=0.38, 95% CI=0.20 to 0.70). Furthermore, a higher proportion of overweight/obesity mothers had no awareness of health promotion as compared to 2 (4, n=200)=13.29, p=0.01). Maternal awareness of health promotion appeared to also have a protective effect against overweight/obesity in mothers (odds ratio=0.51, 95% CI=0.28 to 0.95). Conclusions: maternal awareness of health promotion on maternal and preschool childhood obesity. Additionally, this study showed that overweight and obese preschool children had parents who were also overweight and obese. 2 Aim: preschool childhood obesity, as well as maternal awareness of public health promotion on healthy eating with parental and preschool childhood obesity. Methods: Data were collected by measuring the height and weight of two hundred randomly selected three-year old children and their parents. Details of the early feeding and dietary styles and level of health promotion awareness were assessed in faceto-face structured health interviews with the parents. Results: between childhood obesity and parents’ obesity (r=0.2; p<0.001). A higher proportion of overweight and obese preschool children showed that their mothers lacked awareness of health promotion as compared to children...
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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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...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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...R T H E R N T E R R I T O R Y D E PA R T M E N T O F H E A LT H Health Promotion Strategic Framework 2011 - 2015 www.healthynt.nt.gov.au NT Department of Health Health Promotion Strategic Framework 2011 - 2015 Background This framework provides a structure for describing the type of health promotion actions that are used across the Northern Territory. It enables a shared understanding of the actions that can be taken to improve health and wellbeing. It also provides guidance about embedding a health promotion approach into all planning processes, programs and service development across the NT. While this framework is intended to be used within the health sector, we strongly encourage other sectors and agencies outside of the health domain to use the framework. This framework should be used in conjunction with health promotion audit tools and other health promotion resources available in the NT, such as the Public Health Bush Books and the Quality Improvement Program Planning System (QIPPS). It is also designed to be used as a guide, together with other local, regional and national frameworks, policies, strategies and resources. Why Health Promotion? The World Health Organisation (WHO) acknowledges the growing evidence that health promotion and preventive health approaches are effective in improving overall health and wellbeing, reducing the burden of chronic disease and injury, addressing health inequities, facilitating the better use of resources and enhancing economic...
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...University: NRS-429V Family Health Promotion 27-Jun-2011 (O109) 06/30/2011 Sickness and diseases has been a global problems predominantly facing mankind. These challenges led to the integration of various programs such like health promotion program, in effort to curb chronic diseases with its relating risk factors and assist in promoting good health and wellness. Health promotion was formed to encourage people to take preventive measure towards their health and to curb the deterioration of sickness and diseases thereby implementing a healthier life style. One of the ultimate goals of health promotion is improving quality of life of an individual, families and communities. These great challenges require a comprehensive approach towards eradicating and/or minimizing its health complications. Health promotion is the ability to create understanding about health among individuals, enabling them to gain that knowledge about their health and willingly take control in other to improve the quality of their health. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health (WHO, 2006). This program is designed to educate people and have them acknowledge the importance of knowing health issues and ways to respond to it. It is a fundamental channel where premature deaths and unnecessary injuries and diseases can be averted. Nursing has been advocating for adequate health since the era of Nightingale...
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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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