Health Promotion Health promotion is an important part of a nurse’s role. To help prevent disease and promote healthy lifestyle options a nurse should encourage patients through educating them and communicating effectively to enable patients to adopt Health promoting attitudes and behaviours NMC (2008) This essay will be focussed on a patient cared for by the author, on a clinical placement and a description of how a situation of health promotion had been delivered by the student nurse. The names of the people have been change to protect confidentiality in accordance to the NMC (2008). As a Student Nurse it is imperative to recognise in depth and explore what health promotion is and how we can empower patients to make informed, healthy decisions regarding their health. The WHO 2011 states that “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
Assessment Tool Analysis Paper Assessment tools are used to evaluate and help with the intervention of a patient’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. They enable medical practitioners to help the vulnerable make informed and appropriate choices for a normal life. Assessment tools can be useful in improving family dynamics, building more cohesive relationships, and promoting healthier lifestyles. There are many different types of assessment tools, some are more effective than others and it is the responsibility of the practitioner to determine the tool that best fits the dynamics of their patient's particular situation. Jean Watson is recognized for her theories on human caring and the way nurses give care.
In both, Henderson’s Need Theory and Orem’s Self Care Theory, the ‘role of nursing’ is the core concept. Henderson considered her definition of nursing her ‘concept.’ She defined nursing as, “assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery,” according to (“Current Nursing: Virginia Henderson’s Need Theory”, 2012). Orem defined nursing as, “actions deliberately selected and performed by nurses to help individuals or groups under their care to maintain or change conditions in themselves or their environments,” (Current Nursing: “Dorothea Orem’s Self Care Theory,” 2012). For both theories, the major assumption is that the nurse will care for the patient until the patient or his or her family can care for the patient. According to the Free Dictionary (2013), a metaparadigm is, “a set of concepts and propositions that sets for the phenomena with which a discipline is concerned.” In both theories, there are metaparadigms that have developed the framework for nursing practice.
As nurses, we should seek available resources to help patients to formulate decisions to utilize their rights and achieve their expectations if they confront a dilemma or they have inadequate health knowledge. “Nurses are in a unique
The article promotes safety, delegation, prioritization, and care by focusing on the hierarchy in the nursing system and how the appropriate nurse should be following the required role. This is important in the initial assessment of the patient. Only RNs and their superiors should be assessing patient’s immediate needs in order to ensure the overall care of the patient. The patient’s safety is paramount and having a qualified professional assessing their needs is of utmost importance. After this step, the RN can then delegate the care plan to other nurses that are able to follow through with their care.
Nurses should also identify limits to their own knowledge/skill/authority and identify key resources for referring situations that exceed those limits. Nurses trained in specialized practices may be called on to attend to things public health nurses do not practice on a daily basis. A disaster of any size relies on nursing collaborating with supporting agencies to take care of the needs of the public prior to, during and after a
Health belief model-for preventive treatment for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women Target population-middle aged woman Introduction Thjose beliefs which influence to follow preventive or therapeutic recommendations.focussed primarily on the prevention rather than treatment of the disease. Commonly use theory in health education and promortion.Also explains the non-complaince with a particular health programme. People have attitudes,values and beliefs about their health and health services which might influence their perceptions of need and utilization of services The initial behavior model 1960(journal of health and social behavior USE of healtrh services Predisposing factors-demographic,social str5ucture,health beliefs Enabling resource-personal ,family /community Need-perceived…evaluated Perceived need is a perceived
See glossary of Nursing Program Student Handbook. A dynamic state of physiological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual well-being that reflects adaptation responses by the individual to internal and external stressors. Health is the optimum steady state of adaptation which is maintained by the individual system. What is illness? See glossary of Nursing Program Student Handbook Illness is a state of adaptation in which the adaptation responses are ineffective and/or incomplete, often resulting in contact with health care providers.
(2010), Keegan et al. (2012) and Mhurchu et al. (2010) offer their own perspectives about the purpose of health promotion in nursing practice. They believe that the goal of the health promotion activities is to help one’s client to manage secondary conditions of their disabilities in the
Assessment is a systematic process using a rational method of planning to identify a patient’s health and any actual or potential problems that need to be met and to provide interventions to meet those needs. (Berman et al, 2010) A comprehensive assessment establishes a database of information relating to the patient including visual observations during initial interview including, skin condition, cloths, hair, hygiene, demeanor and presence of pain etc. During the interview the nurse should gather family history and both subjective and objective data to establish baseline data as a reference point and an indicator to the effectiveness of interventions. (Berman et al, 2010) Subjective data is what the patient thinks, feels and believes and can also be referred to as the symptoms including itching, pain and worry or anxiety. Objective data is measured during the physical examination; it can be seen, heard, smelt, felt, observed, tested or measured against an excepted standard, including: skin color, bowel sounds, blood pressure, temperature, level of pain, urine analysis etc.