Importance of Health Promotion Health of an individual can be defined as a state free of illness‚ having a healthy behavior and a good state of mind. Health care industry is now focused on preventing illness by promoting wellness enhancing strategies which nurses have an important role to play as care provider and educator. Levels of preventive care are primary prevention – health education‚ immunization and fitness activities‚ secondary prevention – diagnosis and prompt intervention and tertiary prevention
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problems‚ specifically depression‚ anxiety‚ and posttraumatic stress (Enright & Reed). Enright and Reed (2006) hypothesized that participants of the FT study would benefit from increased self-esteem and effective decision making‚ while decreasing levels of depression‚ anxiety‚ and posttraumatic stress. FT results compared with results of the alternate therapy (AT) participants; which were inclusive of “anger validation‚ assertiveness‚ and interpersonal skill building” (Enright & Reed‚ 2006
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HEALTH PROMOTION PAPER HEATH PROMOTION PAPER Dickson Jean NRS 429V Family Health Promotion July 15th‚ 20012 The World Health Organization delineated health as “a state of complete physical‚ mental‚ and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO‚ 1946). Scientists define health promotion as the course of action taken to facilitate people to have power over and to enhance their health generally. To carry on and augment wellbeing some practices such
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING PRACTICE Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Debbie Eckert Grand Canyon University August 8‚ 2011 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice One of health promotion’s many definitions is the process of enabling people to gain control of and to improve their overall health. This process includes activities to sustain and increase personal wellbeing. Some of these activities to sustain wellbeing would be to not smoke‚ maintain fitness with exercising
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Article Review Number Two NRSG 115 October‚ 31‚ 2012 Article Review Number Two This article briefly summarizes informatics providing definitions for confusing terminology and what it means for the nursing profession. Nursing informatics is described as the union of nursing science‚ computer science‚ and information science. As advances in technology continue‚ nursing informatics increasingly plays a larger role in patient care and nursing practice (Manal‚ Shaben‚ & Allen‚ 2012). By
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion in Nursing According to the World Health Organization (WHO)‚ health promotion “enables people to improve control over the determinants of health and as a result to improve their own health‚ and able to make healthy choice” (Denise and Suzanne‚ p. 87). Historically‚ health promotion deal with protecting society from contagious disease‚ such as to providing safe water and reduce environments hazards‚ and treat of preventable disease rather than preventing
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Health Promotion Plan for African American Adults at Risk for Coronary Heart Disease Community Nursing: NUR 3634 Abstract Coronary heart disease affects a disproportionate amount of African Americans (CDC‚ 2010a)‚ yet there are modifiable risk factors that can reduce the risk of this disease. These modifiable risk factors include high blood pressure and high cholesterol. This health promotion plan involves a community-based strategy that targets African Americans by offering primary and
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Health Promotion: Primary‚ Secondary‚ and Tertiary Levels Health promotion is composed of three levels. Primary is the initial level of health promotion and prevention of diseases. The next level is secondary which involves early detection of a disease and prompt intervention to prevent the progression of the disease. Tertiary‚ the final level‚ is when a disease is permanent and the goal is to return the individual to the best possible level of functioning (Edelman & Mandle‚ 2010). According
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Review of Three Business Analytical Articles Kevin Johnson Grand Canyon University: MGT-820-O101 Using Business Analytics for Competitive Advantage November 26‚ 2014 Introduction The intent of this paper is to provide doctoral learners an opportunity to analyze three articles of literature as it correlates to the principles of business analytics. This doctoral learner chose the following three articles to review: A New Business Dimension – Business Analytics by Pavel Năstase and Dragos Stoica
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Journal Article Review Chamberlain College of Nursing Health Assessment NR 305 Journal Article Review Introduction . In the December 2007 issue of Nursing Standards‚ Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig explain the process and importance of taking a full and comprehensive patient health history in the article‚ “A guide to taking a patient’s history”. General principles‚ tools and strategies are outlined in this article to assist the nurse when performing a health history assessment for a patient
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