Family-Centered Health Promotion
Review of Literature
Family-Centered Health Promotion
NRS-429V
Review of Literature
Healthcare promotion is defined as being the process of enabling people to increase control over; and to improve, their health.(www.who.int/topics/health_promtion/en/) Healthcare promotion has changed over the years due to communities and the general public becoming more educated and aware of how diet, exercise and how one lives their lifestyle impact their future. People now are becoming more aware of how obesity and smoking are affecting their futures and shortening life-spans.
The first article "Effect of Health Promotion Education on Presence of Positive Health Behaviors, Levels of Anxiety and Self Concept" speaks about how the school nurse and …show more content…
the school health team can have a positive impact on childrens development of healthy behavior. By setting positive and healthy examples with less anxiety and positive behavior; it teaches kids to be responsible for their own health and develop healthy lifestyles; which can lead to them being healthier adults. (Bektas, M., & Ozturk, C.) By the nurse focusing on being a positive, less anxious better example would be their way of focusing on primary health promotion. These types of relationships begin in their childhood; developing in elementary relationships and while being at home with the parents. The parents also play a large role with anxiety in children, it is a behavior that can be learned and passed on through example of how to deal with life stressors. Children are sponges and learn about attitudes and behaviors of how to protect themselves sometimes physically, mentally and emotionally. If positive examples are set on how to protect themselves effectively they can maintain and improve their health, but children need guidance and role models to show them how healthy communication and relationships take place and adults are at times not setting the appropriate example.
Nurses roles and responsibilities are ever changing and evolving and broadening as the years pass.
Nursing is viewed as a respectable and trusting profession to the public and communities and are providing more education to the people they come into daily contact with. It is with the knowledge that is obtained through education and then applying it in the field and then continuing of education that nurses are being seeked out to assist with health promotion to not only the personal patients of nurses but to the community through health fairs and other community based projects. In Article "Maximizing the Possibilities: Pediatric Nursing Education in Non-traditional settings" a college was attempting to change curriculum and used the nursing students to provide primary, secondary and tertiary care to students in a local school. The students provided lice screening exams on all of the children and provided education, counseling and then referral assessments for the children who may have been suffering an acute injury or illness. The students were also evaluating the childrens immunization statuses and making suggestions on what was needed and then reporting any communicable diseases to the appropriate authorities. In the secondary stage; the nursing students were evaluating children and families who were already facing some health issues and they were involved in assessing how they families and children were dealing with these health issues and complying. The university felt that exposing the students to this different curriculum format would help give the students a different perspective on nursing and care in general. The third stage and change in curriculum was the tertiary stage; the students were instructed to assess the impact that chronic and terminal illness had on the children and family. The large university felt that by switching up the curriculum it would give the students a better perspective on what the different areas that they would be able
to be involved and make a difference in when and if choosing pediatric nursing was something they were interested in. The nurse has many ways that health promotion can be implemented within these two articles; by being accessible, having a great attitude, being a great role model and providing education that is evidence based and then flavored with some personal experience and love, this is how nurses make an added difference not only at the bedside but in leadership as well. Third article "Talking about sexuality and HIV prevention in medical offices: the situation in Switzerland" speaks of how primary care physicians are missing important information regarding the sexual practices of their patients and spreading and contracting of sexually transmitted diseases due to lack of interviewing time where sexual history is concerned. (Meystre-Agustoni, Jeannin, & Dubois-Arber, 2006) The nurse can play an important role with these patients by taking control of the primary stage of the health process and conducting all of the extensive sexual history interview with the patients and communicating the findings to the physicians. After the health information is communicated then the primary care physicians can carry on with the secondary and tertiary care by managing any existing chronic illnesses or initiating care after an acute exposure with treatment plans and options; whereas before physicians admittedly were only questioning whether protection was being used and not investigating any further about sexual habits and partners.
The nursing career is growing and changing daily and nurses are ever adapting to the needs of the communities in which they serve. Nurses are doing this by choosing to become greater educated and advancing their careers by becoming providers/practitioners themselves so they can take the time with patients and make a difference on a more holistic level and is teaching patients to become partners with their health promotion.
References
Bektas, M., & Ozturk, C. (2008). Effect of Health Promotion Education on Presence of Positive Health Behaviors, Level of Anxiety and Self Concept. , 36(5), 681-690. Retrieved from gcu.edu/library
Hitt, S. F., & Overbay, J. D. (2007, September). Maximizing the possibilities: Pediatric nursing education in non-traditional settings. , 36, 339-341. Retrieved from http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofs&AN=507586997&site=eds-live&scope=site
Meystre-Agustoni, G., Jeannin, A., & Dubois-Arber, F. (2006, August). Talking about sexuality and HIV prevention in medical offices: the situation in Switzerland. , 21(3), 290-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681990600743768
Family-Centered Health Promotion
NRS-429V
Review of Literature
Healthcare promotion is defined as being the process of enabling people to increase control over; and to improve, their health.(www.who.int/topics/health_promtion/en/) Healthcare promotion has changed over the years due to communities and the general public becoming more educated and aware of how diet, exercise and how one lives their lifestyle impact their future. People now are becoming more aware of how obesity and smoking are affecting their futures and shortening life-spans.
The first article "Effect of Health Promotion Education on Presence of Positive Health Behaviors, Levels of Anxiety and Self Concept" speaks about how the school nurse and …show more content…
the school health team can have a positive impact on childrens development of healthy behavior. By setting positive and healthy examples with less anxiety and positive behavior; it teaches kids to be responsible for their own health and develop healthy lifestyles; which can lead to them being healthier adults. (Bektas, M., & Ozturk, C.) By the nurse focusing on being a positive, less anxious better example would be their way of focusing on primary health promotion. These types of relationships begin in their childhood; developing in elementary relationships and while being at home with the parents. The parents also play a large role with anxiety in children, it is a behavior that can be learned and passed on through example of how to deal with life stressors. Children are sponges and learn about attitudes and behaviors of how to protect themselves sometimes physically, mentally and emotionally. If positive examples are set on how to protect themselves effectively they can maintain and improve their health, but children need guidance and role models to show them how healthy communication and relationships take place and adults are at times not setting the appropriate example.
Nurses roles and responsibilities are ever changing and evolving and broadening as the years pass.
Nursing is viewed as a respectable and trusting profession to the public and communities and are providing more education to the people they come into daily contact with. It is with the knowledge that is obtained through education and then applying it in the field and then continuing of education that nurses are being seeked out to assist with health promotion to not only the personal patients of nurses but to the community through health fairs and other community based projects. In Article "Maximizing the Possibilities: Pediatric Nursing Education in Non-traditional settings" a college was attempting to change curriculum and used the nursing students to provide primary, secondary and tertiary care to students in a local school. The students provided lice screening exams on all of the children and provided education, counseling and then referral assessments for the children who may have been suffering an acute injury or illness. The students were also evaluating the childrens immunization statuses and making suggestions on what was needed and then reporting any communicable diseases to the appropriate authorities. In the secondary stage; the nursing students were evaluating children and families who were already facing some health issues and they were involved in assessing how they families and children were dealing with these health issues and complying. The university felt that exposing the students to this different curriculum format would help give the students a different perspective on nursing and care in general. The third stage and change in curriculum was the tertiary stage; the students were instructed to assess the impact that chronic and terminal illness had on the children and family. The large university felt that by switching up the curriculum it would give the students a better perspective on what the different areas that they would be able
to be involved and make a difference in when and if choosing pediatric nursing was something they were interested in. The nurse has many ways that health promotion can be implemented within these two articles; by being accessible, having a great attitude, being a great role model and providing education that is evidence based and then flavored with some personal experience and love, this is how nurses make an added difference not only at the bedside but in leadership as well. Third article "Talking about sexuality and HIV prevention in medical offices: the situation in Switzerland" speaks of how primary care physicians are missing important information regarding the sexual practices of their patients and spreading and contracting of sexually transmitted diseases due to lack of interviewing time where sexual history is concerned. (Meystre-Agustoni, Jeannin, & Dubois-Arber, 2006) The nurse can play an important role with these patients by taking control of the primary stage of the health process and conducting all of the extensive sexual history interview with the patients and communicating the findings to the physicians. After the health information is communicated then the primary care physicians can carry on with the secondary and tertiary care by managing any existing chronic illnesses or initiating care after an acute exposure with treatment plans and options; whereas before physicians admittedly were only questioning whether protection was being used and not investigating any further about sexual habits and partners.
The nursing career is growing and changing daily and nurses are ever adapting to the needs of the communities in which they serve. Nurses are doing this by choosing to become greater educated and advancing their careers by becoming providers/practitioners themselves so they can take the time with patients and make a difference on a more holistic level and is teaching patients to become partners with their health promotion.
References
Bektas, M., & Ozturk, C. (2008). Effect of Health Promotion Education on Presence of Positive Health Behaviors, Level of Anxiety and Self Concept. , 36(5), 681-690. Retrieved from gcu.edu/library
Hitt, S. F., & Overbay, J. D. (2007, September). Maximizing the possibilities: Pediatric nursing education in non-traditional settings. , 36, 339-341. Retrieved from http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofs&AN=507586997&site=eds-live&scope=site
Meystre-Agustoni, G., Jeannin, A., & Dubois-Arber, F. (2006, August). Talking about sexuality and HIV prevention in medical offices: the situation in Switzerland. , 21(3), 290-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681990600743768