Nurses Impacting Lives: Health Promotion in a Community Setting Christine Resler Grand Canyon University: NRS 429 May 18, 2014 Nurses Impacting Lives: Heath Promotion in a Community Setting The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated, “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to
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Analysis of a Case Study Community Health Nursing - NUR 311 November 01, 2015 Abstract This paper examines the role of a home care nurse in the case of a patient who is non-compliant with care and lacks knowledge about his medical condition. Nurses have numerous legal, professional and ethical duties. The three main duties are to respect all patients’ confidentiality and autonomy and to recognize duty of care owed to all patients. This paper will explore the ethical dilemma involved with
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DISEASE Introduction As defined in 2012 by the American Nurses Association, “nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. “To deliver the best optimal treatment when performing their duties, nurses are taught
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion in Nursing Care Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion April 14, 2012 Health Promotion in Nursing Care Many years ago, people focused on disease and illness and not staying healthy or preventing illness from occurring. People did not go to the doctor for wellness checks but rather only if they had an ailment. Immunizations have removed some of the diseases that were causing death among the individuals
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will continue to find solutions to the health problems of the people. Though, “prevention is better than cure”. To prevent disease in the healthcare needs a wide range of consistent programs, actions and activities. Recognizing the health problems and evolving healthy life style is vital for people in our era and platform. Furthermore, the global economy is straining by increasing healthcare expenses. Thus, health promotion is the only way to reduce health incidence (occurrence of new cases) of definite
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Health History and Screening of an Adolescent or Young Adult Client Save this form on your computer as a Microsoft Word document. You can expand or shrink each area as you need to include the relevant data for your client. Student Name: Leigh Hinson | Date: 10/19/2015 | Biographical Data | Patient/Client Initials: ECN | Phone No: 910-654-1107 | Address: 6893 Princess Ann Rd. Evergreen NC 28438 | Birth Date:7-20-1999 | Age: 16 | Sex:F | Birthplace: Whiteville, NC
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the health care system. The research made by W.k.kellogg Foundation reported that, they spend more than 6.1 million toward improving the associate degree Nursing. While in 1965 ANA (American Nursing Association) wrote an article suggesting the least entering level to nursing practice should be baccalaureate education. The health resources and services Administration (HRA) reported in March 2008, that 45.4% of registered nurses graduated with an associate degree. The standard of nursing care both
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Addressing Healthy Foods and Nutritional Education with Cleveland's Youth Brenda McLelland Capella University MSN 6012 Unit 8: Designing Health Promotion Programs September, 2015 Abstract Concerns about addressing the nutritional health of Cleveland’s impoverished children continue to plague the Cleveland community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2013, Cleveland has the third largest child poverty rate among the top cities in the United States ("Hunger Facts," 2013). Insufficient
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Health cultural values “shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status, how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek health care” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Transcultural nursing is a practice to transform health care and help people of diverse cultures. An analysis of Leninger's vision for the work of transcultural nursing indicates that there are many barriers and issues in health care, particularly
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How does knowledge of the foundations and history of nursing provide a context in which to understand current practice? Identify at least three trends in nursing practice demonstrated by the interactive timeline. How have these trends influenced your perspective of nursing practice? Nursing is a noble vocation that has been into practice from ages but not as a profession neither did anyone consider serving another without any reward or benefit. I remember the illustration of Good Samaritan, by Jesus
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