...head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING PRACTICE Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V April Herrera April 14, 2012 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice To evaluate health promotion, people need to know what health promotion truly is. Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization as, “the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health.”(The Bangkok Charter for health promotion in a globalized world, 2005) Health promotion is educating the community about healthy choices that they can understand and utilize. Examples of this would be to have community programs that are free, which the community could attend to learn healthy cooking and eating habits. Communities have great opportunity to promote healthy lifestyles, by starting in the school system. This allows for good healthy habits to be established early in life, which is a proactive approach to avoiding lifelong illnesses that are directly linked to unhealthy choices. School nurses have the ability to make a difference in communities with their practice, more than any other nurse in our field. They make contact not only with children but their families as well. The school nurse’s focus is to impact the youth of their community and nurture healthier adult communities in the future. The school nurse must promote health by ensuring, health related...
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...Nursing Leadership Health Policy Paper Shoba Jacob Grand Canyon University Ethics, Policy and Finances in the Health Care System NUR-508 Nursing Leadership Health Policy Paper Professional growth and maintaining competencies mainly in knowledge and skill in the field of nursing is very important. Nurses needs to be updated with the current scope and standards of nursing practice. One of the important characteristics of any profession is the accurate educational preparation which can be achieved with the interest of the individual and funding. Every nurse is responsible for the professional growth (Association, 2001) Purpose for a Policy Change Education is important, it is the base for gaining knowledge and wisdom. It is an important tool and a path for success and paves the way in becoming good future citizens to the community, institution/organization and country. Once a person becomes a registered nurse (RN), it becomes important to pursue the career which helps nurses to apply and pass the knowledge to the fellow co-workers, apply the knowledge at the bed side with real patients and also in highly pressured situations. This knowledge gained by pursuing the career is also beneficial for the nursing students, by observing the clinical practice actions of skilled experienced nurses (Jackson, 2009). Due to the nations shortage of nurses, the effort to educate more nurses and advanced practice nurses has become one of the urging needs and the goal is to reach 340...
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...Family Health Nursing Nur 464 – Concepts of Family Nursing Theory October 6, 2005 Family Health Nursing Nursing has been an integral part of patient care forever, though not considered as a part of medical profession in the early days. Nursing care has evolved from the time of nursing pioneers like Florence Nightingale and Dorothea Orem to today’s health care environment where, health care system has become more complex and fragmented with specializations. The growth of sophisticated medical technology has further changed nurses’ roles in taking nursing care to nursing profession. Today’s nurses have to focus on the psychosocial and physiological environment of a client along with the physical aspect of care. Individual’s personal circumstances play a very important role on their overall health and welfare. Family environment, family values, economic and financial support and education or knowledge base are few important factors that contribute in making individuals react. To provide optimal care, the patient has to be treated as a whole. Patients family should be included ‘as client’ rather than the background for care. What is an ideal family? There are multiple definitions of family. One definition according to The Bureau of the Census is, “two or more persons who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption and who live together as one household” (U.S.Census Bureau, 2005). Another definition of family is “two or more individuals...
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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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...Health Promotion: A More Detailed Look at Health Promotion and Nursing Nayeli Luna Grand Canyon University August 18, 2013 Health Promotion: A More Detailed Look at Health Promotion and Nursing A vital part of nursing care involves the care of patient’s in all stages of health. This includes the concept of health promotion, which can be defined as the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health (Edelman and Mandle, 2010). Health promotion is an important concept in nursing because it encompasses concepts that nursing is concerned with today (Edelman and Mandle, 2010). Today much of the nursing role is involved in health teaching as a form of health promotion. However, we will look at the three levels of health promotion prevention, describe the purpose of health promotion in nursing practice, explore nursing roles and responsibilities evolving in health promotion, and explore implementation methods for health promotion that incorporates areas of nursing. Three Levels of Health Promotion Primary Prevention Level According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health promotion can be defined as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.” (WHO, 2009). Health is reaching a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, by an individual or group. In the primary prevention level, health promotion is focused on preventing or delaying onset of chronic disease (Edelman...
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...Health Promotion is Nursing Practice Salena Nowak Grand Canyon University Health Promotion is Nursing Practice Health promotion is to educate and prevent people from becoming ill and to have them be able to live their lives in the state of optimal health in every way (O’Donnell, 2009). The purpose of health promotion in nursing is to keep people as healthy as possible. Nurses have the encounters with patients in the community whether it is in the outpatient or inpatient setting. As a nurse you have many opportunities to speak with your patients and family members and educate them on healthy behavior and risks factors that they may be involved in to prevent further illnesses if possible. Nurses use a plan of care to identify, implement, and evaluate that the goals are being met. This gives them a tool to make sure the patients are getting what they need. There are three levels of health promotion primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. The primary prevention is to prevent disease. The secondary prevention is to find the disease before there are any symptoms. The tertiary prevention is to slow down the disease process. “Health Promotion is the art and science of helping people discover the synergies between their core passions and optimal health, enhancing their motivation to strive for optimal health, and supporting them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. Optimal health is a dynamic balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual...
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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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...Health Promotion in Nursing Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V November 16, 2013 Health Promotion in Nursing Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2005) in 2005 as, “ The process of enabling people to increase control over their health an its determinates, and thereby improve their health.” A discipline method that depends on education and avenues to help change environments and behaviors in forms that are helpful to the individuals health. The purposes of health promotion in nursing is to educate society around us by promoting ways of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and prevention of diseases and illnesses for optimal health and the well being of the individual. We will accomplish this by providing the proper information that will allow the individual to make the correct health choices need for prevention and improvement of their health. The goal of health promotion is to promote a clear understanding of health and wellness, and not just the absence of the disease. In addition, health promotion by nurses can lead to many positive health outcomes including adherence, quality of life, patients’ knowledge of their illness and self-management (Bosch-Capblancet, 2009). With many changes in the health care, especially in the nursing profession, health promotion has become a vital factor for health care professionals around the world. The roles and responsibilities of the nurse have evolved in health promotion due to its diverse settings...
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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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...Health Promotion in Nursing The World Health Organization (WHO) describes health promotion as allowing society to control elements of personal health, through intelligent, healthy decisions. Health promotion improves the resourcefulness of people to be accountable, and the capacity of organizations and communities to guide the determinants of health. Due to the multitude of determinants of health, health promotion needs cooperation of community and healthcare professionals (Jadelhack, 2012). Health promotion is a planned activity intended to create health, or illness-related learning. Health promotion could also be viewed as an addition to, or stand-in for, an older attempt on the prevention of disease (Tengland, 2010). Health promotion, unlike disease prevention, attempts to modify sociopolitical factors, contesting societal norms. It intends to enable the worst off, providing resources to modify their lives, providing some societal equality. Empowerment is a strategy that starts from the bottom and works its way up to the more fortunate. The terms health promotion and disease prevention allude to skilled actions. Health promotion implies a profession, and is viewed to as overly medically oriented, overly dependent upon prevention, displacement of risk and healthcare (Tengland, 2010). Nursing roles and responsibilities are evolving in health care. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) (2009) showed that health-improving methods carried out by nurses practicing within various...
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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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...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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...How Nursing Image Affects Your Health Abstract In common media and television series, nurses are portrayed as idiotic characters who either merely assist the physicians or are not even present. Contrary to popular belief, doctors are not the primary caretakers of patients. They are there to diagnose and offer their expertise, not bandage wounds, insert IV drips, or do most of the work as far as taking care of the immediate health of the patient. This misperception of nurses can a negative impact on the way other people view them, they view themselves, and the way they work in a professional setting. Nurses should be a respected professional who is recognized for the work they actually do, rather than the work that the media thinks their audience would expect them to do. It is a vicious cycle: the producers try to appeal to their audience who they think will be more receptive to doctors taking the lead while the audience only sees doctors in the foreground and assumes nothing different happens in reality. Constantly in today’s society, Nurses are given the title and image of the helpers whose only job is to assist the physicians in their heroic efforts to solve the complicated riddles of the human body and to save the lives of the innocent victims who find themselves in need of their expertise. Nurses, although they have the most dramatic and hands-on jobs, are not given their due credit for their efforts. In part, this is because of the media who play into the stereotype...
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...Running Head: Mental Health Nursing The Consumer experience of mental health nursing Name Grade Course Tutor’s Name Date The Consumer experience of mental health nursing The articles by Sandy Jeffs, Simon Champ, Rene Geanellos, Ikwunga Wonodi & Robert Schwarcz and Alxander Arguello & Joseph Gogos have presented comprehensive and interesting contributions in reinforcing the literature on consumer experience of mental health nursing with specific reference to schizophrenia. A journal article by Geanellos (2005), “Adversity as opportunity: Living with schizophrenia and developing a resilient self” is a hermeneutical interpretation of 19 people diagnosed with this disorder. According to Geanellos, adaptation, adversity and resilience provide opportunities to adequately adapt to the effects of schizophrenia. Champ (1998), on the other hand provides a detailed account of struggle with schizophrenia. According to Champ, consumerism, personhood, recovery and self identity forms the basic paths to positive living with schizophrenia. This is a quality document that opens the eye on some of the challenging concepts that entails the path to recovery from schizophrenia. Another personal experience on the same topic is by Jeff (1997), “the experience of schizophrenia”. Jeff has achieved excellent ratings on his descriptions on his personal experience with this complication by the use of a poem-“Poems from the madhouse”. Ikwunga Wonodi and Robert Schwarcz’s article;...
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...Public Health and Occupational Health Nursing The history of nursing is one of continual growth and development. The development of public health nursing as a profession is no different. The purpose of this paper is to look at how public health nursing has progressed and examine the impact it has had on contemporary work environments. History of Public Health Nursing Each generation brought with it new challenges, and public health nursing grew, along with other nursing professions, to meet and counteract those challenges. Professional nursing history began with the organizational efforts of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale was born into a wealthy and prominent family in nineteenth century Europe. During the Crimean War, Nightingale, through her population-based epidemiological approach was able to successfully and dramatically reduce mortality rates among soldiers. Nightingale envisioned nurses being formally trained and skilled in the care of the sick, injured, and weak. Nightingale also made clear distinction between nursing focused on caring for the sick and nursing focused on the prevention of illness (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). As time progressed, women began to play a more prominent role in society. Educated women and uneducated women alike began entering the workforce. Women of means also began to break free of some of the societal restraints upon them and became more active in public affairs. Lillian Weld, a pioneer of public health nursing, and...
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