...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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...Heritage Assessment Paper Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS 429 V Jen Costello October 6, 2013 Heritage Assessment Paper Because of the multicultural population dynamic existing in our country today as well as the increasing diversity of culture expected in the future, nurses need a streamlined means to determine both patients and families’ cultural history as well as current relative cultural practices to better meet the needs of the population they serve. The utilization of the health assessment tool serves to be an efficient means in which to accomplish this endeavor. This paper will explore and compare the cultural influences and views of three families of various cultural backgrounds to include their cultural beliefs of health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Additionally, this paper will also distinguish as well as evaluate their common health traditions and evaluate family traditions. Heritage Assessment Tool It is important that nurses have a framework to comprehensively and systematically assess a patent as well as a families’ heritage and cultural background in order to better understand the values, beliefs and attitudes they embrace toward health care. At the same time it is equally important that the nurse understand the specific considerations, approaches, and manners in which health care should be...
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...PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE NURSING NUR 211 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Supplemental Learning Guide Course Objectives * Relate the minimum requirements for the course. * Illustrate the use of competencies for learning. * Formulate own needs and responsibilities relative to meeting course competencies. * Relate course/clinical assignments and evaluation * Distinguish how the major concepts (see Nursing Student Handbook) of the program are affected by the variety of conditions and diseases within this course for all age groups. Outline A. Orientation to course 1. Course descriptions 2. Course outcomes/competencies 3. Textbooks B. Course Requirements 1. Student assignments and responsibilities 2. Minimum level of achievement 3. Evaluation tools C. Course/ Clinical Assignments and Evaluation D. Major Concepts 1. Caring 2. Clinical judgment, clinical reasoning, and nursing judgment 3. Clinical microsystem 4. Collaboration 5. Critical thinking 6. Cultural competence and Diversity 7. Ethics 8. Evidence-based care 9. Healthcare environment 10. Human flourishing 11. Informatics and Information management 12. Integrity 13. Knowledge, skills, and attitudes 14. Leadership 15. Nursing and Nursing Process 16. Nursing-sensitive indicators 17. Patient and Patient-centered care 18. Personal and Professional development 19. Professional identity ...
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...Running Head: PROJECT 1 Project 1 PS501-03 I have chosen a career in School psychology. Becoming a school psychologist has been something that I wanted to do since my freshman year in college. During that time I began working for an organization called Community Intervention and Research Center as a behavioral aide, which I found to be very rewarding. Though the organization was a social service agency, we worked with a lot of school and child psychologists. My job duties were to be someone who enforces behavior modification with children who were put on my case load one on one but within their normal everyday environment. Each child had a treatment plan that was put in place by their psychologist and my duty was to help implement it. So I accompanied the children on my caseload to school, home and/or their after school program. Each child had been diagnosed with some sort of emotional, behavioral, and/or learning disorder and it was my job to coach them through some of their difficulties. This job actually meant a lot to me because as a child I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Growing up was very difficult for me because I was always being kicked out of schools or put in remedial classes because a lot of schools weren’t adept at handling children with ADHD. So this job became especially important to me which is why...
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...date as a “publication date” - you will use the term “n.d.” if no publication date for the article/publication is listed. How to document a Lecture: The health assessment of infants [Lecture 1]. (2012). In Health assessment. Retrieved from Grand Canyon University website: https://lc-ugrad1.gcu.edu/learningPlatform/ How to document an article from a Journal: Graves, S. & Larkin, E. (2006). Lessons from Erikson: A look at autonomy across the lifespan. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 2(4), 63-71. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1300/J194v04n02_05 How to document an article/publication from a Government Agency/Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2015, July 13) Developmental monitoring and screening for health professionals. In Child development – Developmental screening. Retrieved from www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/screening-hcp.html How to document an article/publication from a Website /University /Foundation: Cherry, K. A. (2005). Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. In Psychosocial theories of personality. Retrieved from About Education website: http://psychology.about.com/od/psychosocialtheories/a/psychosocial.htm Halliburton, A., & Gable, S. (2003, September). Development during the school-age years of 6 through 11. In Families and relationships – Child development. Retrieved from University of Missouri Extension website: http://extension.missouri.edu/p/GH6235 Evidence-based practice:...
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...University Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) are advanced practice registered nurses who work autonomously or in collaboration with other healthcare professionals to provide health promotion, disease prevention, direct care, and counseling across the lifespan that is family-focused. FNPs are graduate level practitioners that may enter as non-nurses who must satisfy the requirements to take the RN licensure exam, either as a precondition to the NP program or as part of an articulated educational program that delivers the basic generic nursing content, in addition to the NP-specific content Midwives are primary health care providers to women throughout the lifespan. Women receive...
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...Chemistry I Data Analysis for Health Science UGS 302 or UGS 303 (First-Year Signature Courses) Visual – Performing Arts | Freshman 2nd Semester (15 hrs) | Introductory Biology I Fundamentals of Nutrition Introduction to Psychology Global Health Masterworks of Literature or E316L, E316M, E316N or E316P | Sophomore 1st Semester (16-17 hrs | Human Microscopy & Gross Anatomy Intro to Medical Microbiology or American History Core Course Communication in Health Care Settings | Sophomore 2nd Semester (16 hrs) | Intro to Patient-Centered Nursing Care Health Assessment Skills Clinical Nursing Skills I Practicum Ethics of Health Care Vertebrate Physiology II Systems Physiology Lab II GOV312L, 312P, 312R (US) | Junior 1st Semester (13 hrs) | Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan Problems in Mental Health Nursing Adult Health Nursing I Adult Health Nursing I Practicum Nursing Research | Junior 2nd Semester (15 hrs) | Nursing Care of Childbearing Families Nursing Care of Childbearing Families Practicum Adult Health Nursing II Clinical Nursing Skills II Practicum Genetics in Health Care Contemporary Nursing Pharmacology | Senior 1st Semester (15 hrs)(Continued…) | Nursing Care of Child & Families Nursing Care of Child & Families Practicum Adult Health Nursing II Adult Health II Practicum Spanish for Health Care Professionals Interprofessional Collaborative Practice | Senior 2nd Semester (14 hrs) | Public Health Nursing Public Health Nursing Practicum Complex Nursing...
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...Cultural Heritage assessment Culture is defined as, “the behaviors and beliefs characteristics of a particular society, or ethnic group, which differentiate one society or ethnic group from another”. Heritage assessment is an important step which helps the health care professionals to be client-centered and cross-culturally competent. Cultural/heritage assessment will help health care providers to know the traditional health care methods used to protect, maintain, and restore health and give more personalized care. Cultural competency will help health care provider to respect the underlying personal and cultural values of clients. Nurses will be able to give more culturally competent care when they identify and use cultural norms, values, and time patterns in their interpretation of assessment information (Andrews & Boyle, 2008). There are different assessment tools to collect information about different cultures which help the health care provider to become culturally competent. The greater number of positive responses shows the person’s identification with his/her traditional heritage. Heritage assessment tools also helps nurses to identify own beliefs and attitudes and how it influence in providing care. This will help nurses to avoid judging and help to give more personalized care depend on the cultural background of her clients. Each culture has its own values and beliefs which help in defining health and illness for the particular ethnic group and subgroups. When taking...
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...1 NRSG125 HEALTH ASSESSMENT 1. Introduction to physical assessment techniques LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the successful completion of this session students will be able to: * Demonstrate the techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation at a beginning level * Discriminate between intensity, duration, pitch and quality of percussion sounds at a beginning level * Differentiate between light and deep palpation * Identify the components of a stethoscope. * Identify and describe the use of a variety of equipment used for health assessment * Establish an environment suitable for conducting a physical assessment. * Describe safety precautions and legal considerations when performing a physical assessment. PRE-LAB READING: Prior to attending this lab students should read the following: * Estes, M, E, Z., Cajella,P.,Thoebald, K.,Harvey, T., (2013). Health assessment and physical examination (1st ed.) South Melbourne, Vic., Australia; Cengage Learning. pp 81-96. * Tollefson, J. (2012) Clinical psychomotor skills (5th ed.) South Melbourne, Vic. Australia.: Cengage Learning. pp 23-28 List the physical assessment techniques in the correct order, and provide two examples of findings. Assessment | Description | Example of findings | technique | | | | | | Inspection | Examination conducted by looking at the body parts being examined, through observation, focus images,...
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...Online Risk Assessment Analysis John Hayes University of Illinois at Chicago Online Risk Assessment Analysis Several models of health beliefs and behaviors have been developed to help determine whether an individual is likely to participate in disease prevention and health promotion activities. The purpose of the health assessment is to establish a database for the client’s normal abilities, risk factors that can contribute to dysfunction, and any current alterations in function (Pender, 2001). Of the two models, Health Belief Model and Health Promotion Model, the model that most reflect my belief is the Health Promotion Model. The Health Promotion Model is a way of thinking that revolve around the philosophy of promoting better health physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually, occupationally, environmentally and intellectually. Because I am aware of the relationship between lifestyle and illness, I strive to develop health-promoting habits, such as getting adequate exercise, rest, and relaxation, maintaining good nutrition and reducing stress to lead a better quality life. The following are the results of my health assessment. Perceived benefits of action * According to my health assessment, the data reflects that I have a sense of self-responsibility and personal accountability for my health. I have a tendency to be more engage in maintaining health-promoting behaviors, due to past experiences of poor health with family members. Much of my attitude and behavior...
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...Heritage and Cultural Assessment Gathering information about a patient’s culture is an essential part of the nursing assessment. The importance of a comprehensive cultural assessment cannot be underestimated. Race, ethnicity, and cultural values influence a patient’s view of health and potential treatments. My first experiences with culture were relatively benign. I grew up in small-town Iowa where there was one African-American family and a smattering of families of Asian or Indian descent. The latter lived in town because their parent or parents were physicians at the local Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital. I lived in a vacuum with family living nearby, and all of my friends were Caucasian and Christian or Catholic. My maternal grandparents were born and raised in different states – my grandfather was from eastern Tennessee and my grandmother from Louisiana, near New Orleans. My maternal grandfather migrated to Louisiana to work as a longshoreman where he met my grandmother who was raised in a Catholic orphanage. My grandmother’s roots can be traced backwards from Cajun Louisiana to Acadia (Nova Scotia) to 16th century France. My grandmother did not believe in doctors; but relied on folk medicine treatments. Brunvand (1996), states that “in the Cajun culture of southwestern Louisiana, for example, the principle folk practitioners are called ‘traiteurs,’ a term commonly applied to three different types of people.” These people included magic-religious healers, those...
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...Evaluation of Cultural Health Beliefs: Health Traditions in the Chines, Hispanic, and American Cultures Modern day American nurses, require cultural competencies in order to provide care to the diverse population in the United States. This population of nurses provide medical care to patients who are from all areas of the earth. There are distinct cultural differences in health traditions. The three areas of health traditions that an RN must assess are, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. As an RN assesses these three factors, an understanding of the patient’s health will become apparent. Another useful tool that an RN can utilize, is a heritage assessment tool. This assessment will reveal the heritage of your patient, the patient’s family dynamics, the religious preference, and the practice of rituals or activities. The heritage assessment does describe the patient as a whole and provides great insight to the care of the patient as it pertains to the mind, body, and soul. Understanding a heritage is useful, in the origins of a family, cultural practices, any possible genetic heritages that may provide insight when assessing a patient (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The heritages of the Chinese, Hispanic, and American will be compared in relation to health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Each heritage assessment will reveal different practices and beliefs in respect to healthcare. In the Hispanic culture, health maintenance is...
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...Heritage Assessment With the increase in diverse population in the United States, the nurses in America need to Know the importance of culture and heritage importance in health care. .People from different parts of world carry different cultures . Each culture overview health in different ways. Understanding the culture make it easy to provide quality health care to individuals and families. Every culture have their own health belief to that what causes sickness and who should be involved in curing and what sort of remedy to be taken to cure the disease . The more the understanding of the culture of a patient the better the care the patient receives.”The Heritage Assessment Tool” is designed to find a patients cultural, religious, family and ethnic back ground. The norms and practices in each culture is varied. The “Heritage Assessment Tool” gives nurse a picture of the patients understanding regarding the health beliefs ,illness ,health and health promotion. This helps for the plan of developing a culturally appropriate health care. In this paper the goal of the author is to summarize the results of the assessments done on three different families of different cultures and utilize the results to plan the health promotion based on different cultures. The ...
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...Heritage Assessment: Comparing Cultural Differences Between Diverse Families Rashawn Llewellyn Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V 01/24/2016 Heritage Assessment: Comparing Cultural Differences Between Diverse Families Understanding the differences and similarities of cultures can be a challenging task for many. Nurses interact directly or indirectly with individuals and families of different backgrounds daily. The biggest concern for many health professionals is to provide the best care to their patients in order to achieve or progress towards health. With this goal nurses have to understand that caring for patients have to be individualized as cultures have differences, even those who have the same culture can adhere to traditions differently. This can be very challenging for many Healthcare providers especially in the United States of America as this country was developed on many immigrants working together as one. The most important key as a nurse is having the skills and understanding to approach and provide care individually based on the beliefs and values of their patient, this will aid to meet the patient wishes. With the help of the Heritage Assessment Tool we are able to get a more detailed look at how closely certain individual or families adhere to their traditional values. [[NEEDS A THESIS STATEMENT HERE: “In this essay, the author will…”]] Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment Tool is a questionnaire made up of 29 questions which helps when...
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...A comprehensive assessment of the geriatric patient is very important for many reasons and the first being a baseline if nothing else. Today when we use the term geriatric or elderly this does not mean that this person is in a wheelchair or walking with a walker, it is in regards to where they are in their lifespan. Therefore a comprehensive assessment for one may be totally different for another. The healthcare provider needs to keep in mind that this could make the geriatric patient have feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) should being with collecting a health history by interviewing the patient and their family members if needed. The healthcare provider wants to promote an efficient exchange of information and build a rapport with the patient and family. The healthcare provider needs to speak clearly and minimize distractions, give a brief overview of what you will be doing (Lynder, 2011). The CGA can also be done with an interdisciplinary team (Hirth, 2003). The healthcare providers are looking for current and past medical history. A list of current prescription and non-prescription medications are to be recorded. Next we can move to the physical examination, head-to-toe assessment. The healthcare provider would start by assessing: * The skin, looking for moles that are dark or irregular in size, bruising and elasticity of the skin. Checking for pressure ulcers or sores that are not healing properly (Lynder, 2011). ...
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