Levels of Health Promotions in Nursing Practice
Patricia Hartman
Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotions NRS429V
July 15, 2012
Levels of Health Promotions in Nursing Practice
Dimensions of the environment are not only physical but also psychosocial and spiritual care and involvement. Health promotions are identified as participation of individuals and family with care delivery. The community health profession teaches to improve environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health. The goal is to improve and maintain healthy habits through education and counseling, for individuals to take control over the determinants of their health, reduction of stress, obtain health screening, proper diet, and motivation to adopt healthier life style behaviors and crisis intervention, if appropriate Nursing Practice in Health Promotions From the days of Florence Nightingale, the role of the nurse advocate in the community is to assist with individual, family and caregiver needs to ensure appropriate health care and treatment provisions continue. The nursing profession is at the forefront of healthcare due to its sheer number of registered nurses. They spend a majority of time with patients and their family and friends and guide health care decision. They must know about related theories and models, possess skills to implement and appraise the effectiveness of evidence based interventions, and critically determine future research (Baker, 2007, p. 85)
Evolvement of Nursing Roles and Responsibilities in Health Promotions
Good channels of communication and collaboration between health care professionals is needed for the success of continuity of care. With increased knowledge and better understanding of health promotions stronger links have formed between hospitals and community health care workers and this has created an
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