Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Annie Trinh HCS 350 December 11, 2013 Litanya Simien-Robnett Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Communication is an essential component of professional nursing. The knowledge and utilization of effective communication among professional health care providers directly effects their patient health outcomes. It allows health care professionals to obtain and share crucial data, teach and express their thoughts and concerns. It is a mode of transportation to utilize knowledge and convey a plan of action for progress and improvement. It is a way for professionals to embody and project change, to make a difference.
Family Assessment: Gordon's 11 Functional Health Patterns Shirley Allen Grand Canyon University Family Assessment: Gordon's 11 Functional Health Patterns Healthcare today is centered around health promotion. A framework for prevention of disease and health promotion is provided by Healthy People 2010. Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns gives us structure for collecting material through assessment of the patient and their family and that assists in spotting lifestyle patterns. The mentioned patterns assist in leading nursing diagnoses and interventions for current or likely complications to advance health and well-being (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). This composition will layout two to three Q & A for all patterns used to evaluate the family and decipher the conclusion of a particular family utilizing Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns.
Health Promotion in Nursing There are various definitions that apply to health promotion. Health promotion can be “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.” (Edelman, 2014, p. 12). According to Edelman there happens to be a more complex definition that was commissioned by the U.S. Public Health Service stating health promotion is ““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” (Edelman, 2014, p. 12). Health promotion applied in nursing practice is vital for patients. Nurses apply health promotion everyday to their patients wither they realize it or not.
Use of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education in Nursing Education The use of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education in nursing education provides a guideline for data collection, data analysis, evaluation, and implementation of a working plan. In other words, it maps out the critical thinking process. Each domain and level within the domain may not be required in any given situation, which is for the educator to determine based on the educational need or goal. For example, in “Evaluating a Case Study Using Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education” (2008), the goal was to move learners from ‘knowledge’ to ‘application’ on the cognitive domain. Dependent on the goal of the educator and the needs of the students, the use of domains may change.
| L2. Understand how variousfactors influence thecommunication process inhealth and social care | 2.1 Explain how communication process is influenced by values and cultural factors in health and social care settings. | | 2.2 Explain how legislation, charters and codes of practice impact on the communication process in health and social care settings. | | 2.3 Analyse the effectiveness of organisational systems and policies in promoting good practice in communication health and social care settings. | | 2.4 Suggest ways of improving the communication process in a health and social care setting | L3.
Health promotion enables people to increase control over their health and to improve their health, which does not rely solely on one discipline of health but is rather a multidisciplinary scope that intertwines health education and health interventions and involves individuals, family, communities, state and federal government. 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. Implementation of Health Promotion Implementing health promotion is a key factor in promoting wellness and preventing illness. Chronic diseases in the United States have a major impact and
2) Malaysian Occupational Therapists Association (MOTA) Occupational therapy, often abbreviated as "OT", promotes health by enabling people to perform meaningful and purposeful occupations. These include (but are not limited to) work, leisure, self care, domestic and community activities. Occupational therapists work with individuals, families, groups and communities to facilitate health and well-being through engagement or re-engagement in occupation. Occupational therapists are becoming increasingly involved in addressing the impact of social, political and environmental factors that contribute to exclusion and occupational deprivation. 3) University of Southern California (USC) Occupational Therapy is a health care profession aimed at improving performance, preventing illness and disability, and promoting adaptation to life changes.
Application of Orem's Nursing Theory to the Orthopedic Patient Population The patient population that I currently work with is orthopedic patients. I have given care to orthopedic patients both in an acute care hospital setting and a rehabilitation hospital setting. Orthopedics defined is “a branch of healthcare that is concerned with the prevention and correction of disorders of the musculoskeletal system of the body.”(Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary, 2002, p. 1236). A nurse’s primary concern is to promote and maintain a patient’s locomotion involving joints, muscles, skeletons, and surrounding tissues. Post-operatively, whether post-operative day 1 or day 10, orthopedic patients are very dependent on nurses and other healthcare professionals to meet and provide their daily needs.
INTRODUCTION On admission to a healthcare facility, a health assessment is a mandatory tool in assessing the patient’s health status. In general an assessment is broken down into two types of reviews, by conducting a health history which includes the collection of subjective data (information elicited by the patient or patients’ family members) and a physical examination of the patient which includes the gathering of evidence based data (Wilson & Giddens, 2009). Collecting and documenting accurate information is imperative in providing the allied health team this information to facilitate an efficient and well-formed care plan in addition to establishing a baseline for subsequent assessments (Springhouse, 2004; Wilson & Giddens, 2009). PATIENT INTERVIEW A health assessment should consist of establishing a patient profile and incorporate a full medical history (Harvey, 2004). The traditional approach includes collecting subject matter on “biographical data, present health concerns (or present illness) and the chief complaint, past history, family history, review of system and patient data” (Farrell & Dempsey, 2010, p. 74).
This is a misunderstanding: by promotion in the health context we mean improving health: advancing, supporting, encouraging, and placing it higher on personal and public agendas’. A similarity between these two definitions is that they can both be seen as providing information to allow the person to make the necessary choices to improve their lives. This can be linked to Ewles and Simnetts’ definition regarding empowerment, about helping people change how they feel about themselves by supporting and encouraging them to change their behaviour to increase their chance of living a healthier and more fulfilled and extended life. They go on to define empowerment as ‘modifying the way people feel about themselves through improving their self-awareness and self-esteem. It involves helping them to think critically about their values and beliefs and build up their own values and beliefs system’.