Robert Driver
GCU
Family-Centered Health Promotion
NRS-429
Jennifer Wood
October 12, 2014
Health Promotion in Nursing Care
Health Promotion is the social science and art of helping individuals discover the interaction between their optimal health and core passions, increasing their ambition to strive for optimal health, and encouraging them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of ideal health. Lifestyle change is made possible through educational experiences that create awareness, increases motivation, and builds opportunities (Edelman, Mandle, & Kudzma, 2014, p. 11). The World Health Organization (WHO), defines health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase …show more content…
Primary promotion is based on prevention and is used to prevent the onset of diseases by reducing the risks. This is accomplished by reducing exposure to a particular disease or altering behaviors such as encouraging smoking cessation. In the article entitled,” Primary and secondary tobacco prevention in youth”, the author explains that childhood is a precarious time for children to experiment with tobacco. The nursing profession has made a major impact on primary prevention of tobacco use by providing education in schools, communities, families, and acute patient settings. However there is still much more education which needs to occur. Nurses should rise to the critical task of continuing to provide comprehensive education on primary tobacco prevention for our youth (Tingen, Andrews, & Stevenson, …show more content…
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