P1: Explain the requirements for two different careers in the health sector. The job role of a midwife is to provide advice, care and support for women and their babies during pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period. They help women make their own decisions about the care and services they access. Their responsibilities are wide ranging and include; caring for new-born children, providing health education and parenting support immediately after delivery, until care is transferred to a health visitor. Midwives are personally responsible for the health of both mother and baby and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications.
Once I started researching a career in nursing I realized that there were a lot more types of nurses then I had originally imagined. I have not decided on which field of nursing I would like to specialize in yet but I just imagine myself as a general nurse, working in a hospital setting. A Registered Nurse (RN) is not a doctor assistant; a RN gets to treat wounds, give IV’s and basically get to treat their own patients. Right now my main priority is to stay focused on taking all necessary steps to pursuing Nursing as a career.Gwendolyn Mink describes most Registered Nurses as working directly with the patients and their families. They are the families’ contact with the medical world, in the hospital and at the patients’ home.
Nurses have the unique opportunity to educate their patients on achieving these goals. From the numerous materials that the nun study went over it has clearly been documented that higher learning and keeping active using your brain helps to maintain cognition. Patients who are continually doing activities seem to maintain a healthy lifestyle longer then ones who become stagnant and do nothing with their time. Nurses can encourage these people to join in activities and become more active. Exercise is another key component of maintaining a healthy self.
“Nursing is not for everyone. It takes an intelligent, strong, and compassionate person to take on the illness of the world with the passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!” (“Nurse Quotes”). Home Health care nurses are trained to provide nursing care for patients in the comfort of their own home. Being a home health nurse is a demanding job and it requires going through an intensive series of training, and having good monitoring and communication skills, as well as knowledge of medical terminology.
One must have communication and interpersonal skills, you must be able to properly explain a procedure to a patient and their families, as well as being able to communicate with your patient to provide the best care. You must have patience, you must be able to adapt to your patient and their needs. Some patients are very needy and need constant care, others want nothing to do with anyone and want to be left alone. Both types of patients are seen every day and must be dealt with accordingly. Another skill a successful Nurse should have is empathy, many patients are confused and scared about their conditions and it’s the Nurses job to show that they understand and try to further explain the condition using words that will not frighten or confuse the patient.
Additionally, “The health belief model and social learning theory assist the nurse in formulating an action plan that meets the needs and capabilities of the individual making health behavior changes” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 248). This model states important points that serve as guidelines for nurses to help enable them to determine an individuals’’ willingness to change health behaviors and to understand the factors that contribute to their state of health (Edleman & Mandle, 2010). They are as follows: • Individual perceptions or readiness for change • The value of health to the individual compared with other aspects of living • Perceived susceptibility to a health problem, disease, or complications • Perceived seriousness of the disease level threatening the achievement of certain goals or aims • Risk factors to a disease attributed to heredity, race or culture, medical history, or other causes • Perceived benefits of health action • Perceived barriers to promotion action As nurses, we must always act on the opportunity to educate and recognize those opportunities as they arise. We must be able to evaluate the willingness of individuals to learn and to accept new ways that they can improve their health. We do have such a large amount of face-to-face contact with people that it is only in our benefit to take advantage of educational situations.
(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.
The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse Melissa Wixon Walden University NURS 4011 Section 05, Family, Community and Population-Based Care July 19, 2014 The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse For over one hundred years, nurses have worked within the community to improve the health of its’ citizens, families and overall populations, all while attempting to develop strategies to solve evolving health threats to society. From early colonial times to current times, nurses work feverishly to not only treat the sick but increase the healthy. The purpose of this paper is to give a history of public health nursing, the impact that public health nursing has had on society from the local, state and national level, and to discuss an ethical dilemma that may be encountered while dealing within in these nursing roles. History of Public Health Nursing Early nursing began in the home, as women cared for their children and families. After the American Revolution, basic public health services evolved, and with that the eventually establishment of the Red Cross in America.
My personal belief is that what you give to your patients will come back to you. It has guided me to do my best in my everyday job and duties as a nurse. As a nurse caring for, not only sick patients, but also fellow people, coworkers, new graduates, and agency nurses who have never worked in the units before. I help them to familiarize their environment by
Nursing Health Promotion Health promotion, as defined by the World Health Organization, “is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” (WHO, 2012) Health Promotion does not rely solely on one discipline of health but is rather a multidisciplinary scope that intertwines health education and health interventions. The goal of health promotion is to enhance value in health, lessen the health risks, advocate for healthy lifestyles and settings, and respond to the underlying determinants of health. (WHO, 2012) Health promotion it not limited to an individual but can be implemented widely through communities as well. Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Health promotion education practiced in the communities can positively affect the communities’ health and nurses contribute to this result.