Clinical Nursing Promotion: A Case Study
Health Promotion primarily emphasizes the importance of health and the prevention of disease. The promotion of health should be the focal point of any list of responsibilities for a nurse. Along with the promotion of health, the wellness of health is important equally. Improvements in health are highly essential to living an extended and perfect life (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Three stages exist when it comes to the prevention of a disease; i.e. primary, secondary and tertiary. The various components of emotional, physical, spiritual, and social health should be in a considerable balance in relation to one another to obtain the ideal health. This ideal health can be achieved through certain lifestyle adjustments from learning experiences. Having
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a considerably accessible bridge to environments that make the easy choice for positive health practice can help bring about this aforementioned goal of the ideal health. (Michael P. O 'Donnell (2009). This essay focuses on explaining the various components that brings about the promotion of health. The tasks and concerns associated with the components help in determining how to apply the proper techniques for an efficient promotion of health.
According to the World Health Organization, health promotion is formally defined as the means to assist individuals in improvement, give them proper power over their own health factors and support their health recovery (Fry, Gleeson, & Rissel, 2010). A proper public education on how to prevent obesity, smoking, alcoholism etc. can save the U.S. healthcare billions of dollars every year (Goetzel, 2009). Two major factors play a role in the proper advocating of health promotion; an informed and proper education of medical professionals to relay the information to the common public, the proper participation and willingness of the common public and their families to take in the information given to them and properly apply it to obtain the ideal health by making the essential, recommended lifestyle adjustments.
The use of promotion of health in nursing practice includes recovering the health standing of a wide array of individuals across the nation. The growing inconsistencies and advancements in social life are leading to a greater number of tasks on the average nurse’s job. Health promotion techniques have successfully employed delivering statistics regarding disease and health data to the public by encouraging them to improve their health and lowering the chance of diseases. Nurses are considered to be a highly valued asset to the healthcare infrastructure, therefore, nurses play a crucial role in efficiently serving the interests of the concept of health promotion and prevention of illness by aiding in the various health amenities.
Nurses have an ever increasing, changing, and important role to promote public health.
In addition to many other crucial responsibilities, their primary focus lies in the prevention of disease by encouraging an individual to make positive adjustments to his or her life so that the ideal health can be attained. For this program to be a success, it is essential that nurses should drive a patient’s focus to proper educational and counselling programs which would encourage engaging in adequate physical activity, indulging in a balanced diet while minimizing the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco. Clinical nursing practice, the appropriate discussion, following the proper protocol of treatment follow-up, teaching the patient how to be healthy and preventing sickness are all important roles of a nurse. Effectively carrying out these roles will greatly help improve the health care services accessibility, reduction of chronic disease symptoms, increased cost-efficiency and better consumer’s health care service experience (Strömberg et al., 2003; Griffiths et al., 2007). Loyalty, life excellence the patients’ ability to learn about their disease and manage their health by themselves are some positive outcomes that could possibly result from a successful promotion of health on behalf of the …show more content…
nurses.
There are three methods that are involved in successfully implementing health promotion: assessment of health necessity, requirements of consistent interventions, and the effort of the completed assessment. While practicing the assessment, it is important for the nurse to recognize the patients’ attitude and how they feel about various illnesses and their health related issues.
The nurses should also make maximum effort to understand patients’ family backgrounds, culture, beliefs and customs. An evaluation that identifies health desires is a useful health tool that can be used to gather evidence regarding the health information of a particular individual, and the certain health disparities in comparison with others (Bennet et al., 2009). Information regarding health requirements such as nutrition, vaccinations and life style are gathered during the evaluations using this health instrument. Interventions usually refer to defensive aids, such as health screenings, providing vaccinations and provision of education regarding the proper maintenance of health. Health education is one of the most essential components when it comes to health promotion (Bennet et al). Health promotion should engage in promoting statistics that convince the public to move into a positive lifestyle to achieve a better health to prevent sickness.
Primary, secondary and tertiary are the three levels of prevention when it comes to health promotion. Cardio vascular disease is used as an example to explain these three levels of promotion. Primary prevention is essentially focused on reducing the main causes of risk factors for CVD. For example, it focuses on the prevention of smoking and having a controlled diet. Secondary prevention aids in identifying the disease early through health screenings and applying interventions to avoid the progression of the illness in question. It is important to instruct those who are at risk about lifestyle changes and medicines that would bring the blood pressure and cholesterol levels to the normal parameters. Tertiary prevention lessens the complication and reduces the development of disease by guiding the patients to a healthy diet, ceasing of tobacco use, and anti-hypertensive and statin drugs to regain proper health (Capewell, 2010). Primary prevention aims to protect healthy individuals from an oncoming disease. Undergoing regular physicals and screening tests makes it significantly effective in identifying any risk factors or symptoms associated with a particular disease. Intervening methods can employ the use of education in schools to prevent the development of cardiovascular disease by teaching about the lipid panel, blood pressure, measuring body mass index and obesity (Meininger, J C 2000). When a patient is diagnosed with a serious risk factor or illness, secondary prevention is put into use. Increasing a patients’ awareness improves the preventive measures. Patients who must manage complex, long term heath issues such as heart disease, diabetes, chronic musculoskeletal pain and cancer are the ones focused on by tertiary prevention. The prevention of additional physical weakening and maximizing the quality of life is the primary goal of this prevention. Hospitals utilize this method to educate the patient to live a better lifestyle reassure their remaining capabilities (Edelman & Mandle).
In conclusion, health promotion is a very important responsibility for all health professionals. Nurses make up the majority of healthcare professionals and are thus considered to be the forefront personnel in the promotion of health. This is due to the fact that nurses are easily spotted, meaning they are always in close contact with the patient and his or her family by always treating them when they are in bed. It is very vital to introduce health promotion by improving each individual’s health to obtain an ideal well-being, personal satisfaction, and a healthy, productive life.
References
Bennet, C., Perry, J., & Lawrence, Z.
(2009). Promoting health in primary care. Nursing Standard, 23(47), 48-56. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu
Edelman, C. L., & Mandle, C. L. (2010). Health defined: Objectives for promotion and prevention. In N. O’Brien & C. Irwin (Eds.), Health promotion throughout the life span (pp. 2-26). St Louis, Missouri: Mosby Elsevier.
Fry, D., Gleeson, S., & Rissel, C. (2010). Health promotion and secondary prevention::response to Milat, O’Hara and Develin. Health promotion journal of Australia, 21(2), 86-91.
Goetzel, , R. (2009). Health promotion in nursing and cost-effectiveness. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu/
Meininger, J C (2000) School-based interventions for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: evidence of effects for minority populations. Annual review of nursing research, 18. pp. 219-244. ISSN 0739-6686
Michael, P. O’Donnell (2009). American journalof health promotion. 24, Retrieved from https://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/
Strömberg A., Mårtensson J., Fridlund B., Levin L. Å., Karlsson J. E., Dahlström U.Nurse- led heart failure clinics improve survival and self-care behavior in patients with heart failure. Results from a prospective, randomised trial. European Heart Journal
2003;24:1014-1023
a considerably accessible bridge to environments that make the easy choice for positive health practice can help bring about this aforementioned goal of the ideal health. (Michael P. O 'Donnell (2009). This essay focuses on explaining the various components that brings about the promotion of health. The tasks and concerns associated with the components help in determining how to apply the proper techniques for an efficient promotion of health.
According to the World Health Organization, health promotion is formally defined as the means to assist individuals in improvement, give them proper power over their own health factors and support their health recovery (Fry, Gleeson, & Rissel, 2010). A proper public education on how to prevent obesity, smoking, alcoholism etc. can save the U.S. healthcare billions of dollars every year (Goetzel, 2009). Two major factors play a role in the proper advocating of health promotion; an informed and proper education of medical professionals to relay the information to the common public, the proper participation and willingness of the common public and their families to take in the information given to them and properly apply it to obtain the ideal health by making the essential, recommended lifestyle adjustments.
The use of promotion of health in nursing practice includes recovering the health standing of a wide array of individuals across the nation. The growing inconsistencies and advancements in social life are leading to a greater number of tasks on the average nurse’s job. Health promotion techniques have successfully employed delivering statistics regarding disease and health data to the public by encouraging them to improve their health and lowering the chance of diseases. Nurses are considered to be a highly valued asset to the healthcare infrastructure, therefore, nurses play a crucial role in efficiently serving the interests of the concept of health promotion and prevention of illness by aiding in the various health amenities.
Nurses have an ever increasing, changing, and important role to promote public health.
In addition to many other crucial responsibilities, their primary focus lies in the prevention of disease by encouraging an individual to make positive adjustments to his or her life so that the ideal health can be attained. For this program to be a success, it is essential that nurses should drive a patient’s focus to proper educational and counselling programs which would encourage engaging in adequate physical activity, indulging in a balanced diet while minimizing the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco. Clinical nursing practice, the appropriate discussion, following the proper protocol of treatment follow-up, teaching the patient how to be healthy and preventing sickness are all important roles of a nurse. Effectively carrying out these roles will greatly help improve the health care services accessibility, reduction of chronic disease symptoms, increased cost-efficiency and better consumer’s health care service experience (Strömberg et al., 2003; Griffiths et al., 2007). Loyalty, life excellence the patients’ ability to learn about their disease and manage their health by themselves are some positive outcomes that could possibly result from a successful promotion of health on behalf of the …show more content…
nurses.
There are three methods that are involved in successfully implementing health promotion: assessment of health necessity, requirements of consistent interventions, and the effort of the completed assessment. While practicing the assessment, it is important for the nurse to recognize the patients’ attitude and how they feel about various illnesses and their health related issues.
The nurses should also make maximum effort to understand patients’ family backgrounds, culture, beliefs and customs. An evaluation that identifies health desires is a useful health tool that can be used to gather evidence regarding the health information of a particular individual, and the certain health disparities in comparison with others (Bennet et al., 2009). Information regarding health requirements such as nutrition, vaccinations and life style are gathered during the evaluations using this health instrument. Interventions usually refer to defensive aids, such as health screenings, providing vaccinations and provision of education regarding the proper maintenance of health. Health education is one of the most essential components when it comes to health promotion (Bennet et al). Health promotion should engage in promoting statistics that convince the public to move into a positive lifestyle to achieve a better health to prevent sickness.
Primary, secondary and tertiary are the three levels of prevention when it comes to health promotion. Cardio vascular disease is used as an example to explain these three levels of promotion. Primary prevention is essentially focused on reducing the main causes of risk factors for CVD. For example, it focuses on the prevention of smoking and having a controlled diet. Secondary prevention aids in identifying the disease early through health screenings and applying interventions to avoid the progression of the illness in question. It is important to instruct those who are at risk about lifestyle changes and medicines that would bring the blood pressure and cholesterol levels to the normal parameters. Tertiary prevention lessens the complication and reduces the development of disease by guiding the patients to a healthy diet, ceasing of tobacco use, and anti-hypertensive and statin drugs to regain proper health (Capewell, 2010). Primary prevention aims to protect healthy individuals from an oncoming disease. Undergoing regular physicals and screening tests makes it significantly effective in identifying any risk factors or symptoms associated with a particular disease. Intervening methods can employ the use of education in schools to prevent the development of cardiovascular disease by teaching about the lipid panel, blood pressure, measuring body mass index and obesity (Meininger, J C 2000). When a patient is diagnosed with a serious risk factor or illness, secondary prevention is put into use. Increasing a patients’ awareness improves the preventive measures. Patients who must manage complex, long term heath issues such as heart disease, diabetes, chronic musculoskeletal pain and cancer are the ones focused on by tertiary prevention. The prevention of additional physical weakening and maximizing the quality of life is the primary goal of this prevention. Hospitals utilize this method to educate the patient to live a better lifestyle reassure their remaining capabilities (Edelman & Mandle).
In conclusion, health promotion is a very important responsibility for all health professionals. Nurses make up the majority of healthcare professionals and are thus considered to be the forefront personnel in the promotion of health. This is due to the fact that nurses are easily spotted, meaning they are always in close contact with the patient and his or her family by always treating them when they are in bed. It is very vital to introduce health promotion by improving each individual’s health to obtain an ideal well-being, personal satisfaction, and a healthy, productive life.
References
Bennet, C., Perry, J., & Lawrence, Z.
(2009). Promoting health in primary care. Nursing Standard, 23(47), 48-56. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu
Edelman, C. L., & Mandle, C. L. (2010). Health defined: Objectives for promotion and prevention. In N. O’Brien & C. Irwin (Eds.), Health promotion throughout the life span (pp. 2-26). St Louis, Missouri: Mosby Elsevier.
Fry, D., Gleeson, S., & Rissel, C. (2010). Health promotion and secondary prevention::response to Milat, O’Hara and Develin. Health promotion journal of Australia, 21(2), 86-91.
Goetzel, , R. (2009). Health promotion in nursing and cost-effectiveness. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu/
Meininger, J C (2000) School-based interventions for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: evidence of effects for minority populations. Annual review of nursing research, 18. pp. 219-244. ISSN 0739-6686
Michael, P. O’Donnell (2009). American journalof health promotion. 24, Retrieved from https://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/
Strömberg A., Mårtensson J., Fridlund B., Levin L. Å., Karlsson J. E., Dahlström U.Nurse- led heart failure clinics improve survival and self-care behavior in patients with heart failure. Results from a prospective, randomised trial. European Heart Journal
2003;24:1014-1023