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Health Promotion: Diabetes Education and Prevention
Given the need for specificity in nursing theory for addressing a particular topic such as diabetes education and prevention, Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Model would seem to be particularly useful. The model is designed to assist people in making needed lifestyle changes. It is based upon the presumption that people wish to maximize their health potential and possess enough self-awareness to grow in their capacity to self-regulate (Pender, 2013, p.5). While health professionals can act as facilitators, ultimately the model focuses on people’s ability… Continue Reading...
minority and African-American populations’ lower healthcare service access are factors contributing to their relatively lower cancer service utilization. Certain studies reveal that Black immigrants continue to be marginalized when it comes to health promotion, on account of the ‘migration effect’ (new immigrants might lack adequate knowledge of health programs, contributing to their lower service utilization and access). Experiences of stereotyping, racism, cultural and linguistic obstacles (which include screening guidelines failing to be culturally relevant) apparently lead to late diagnoses among ethnic minority and Black populations. Moreover, studies reveal that cultural and religious factors intervene and impact health behaviors of patients, including the perceived advantage of undertaking disease prevention efforts, the delay in seeking medical assistance, and treatment alternatives chosen (Bamidele, Ali, Papadopoulos… Continue Reading...
World Health Organization, 2018). The purpose of the Alliance for Healthy Cities is to encourage local governments to incorporate health promotion into all areas of public practice, economic policy, and urban development (World Health Organization, 2018). Goals of the Healthy Communities/ Healthy Cities approach include reducing public health risks including obesity, and promoting healthy lifestyles, public safety, and health equity. The success of Healthy Cities programs and policies directly depends on the empowerment of nurses at all levels of practice, including community-based nurses. Because each community presents different needs, goals, and challenges, nurses in each community can collaborate with partners and stakeholders to promote and reach realistic public health… Continue Reading...
rendering care. In addition, accessibility to specialists as a performance measure was ranked as at 83.64%. A poor performance for Mount Sinai Hospital encompassed Health promotion and Education, which was set at 54.69 (Mount Sinai, 2017).
Using the HOE framework in the article indicated above, select one aspect of hospital operations and develop a set of measures for that unit. Remember that HOE = A x Q. x E. so be sure to include measures for each model element
The HOE approach makes use of a measure, which is made of three indicators. These three indicators are availability (A), quality (Q) and efficiency (E). The HOE measure is delineated as:
HOE = A x… Continue Reading...
gathered for some different purpose, or by some other individual, group or organization (Institute of Medicine, 2011).
2. Policy Development
One main health promotion activity is a policy for public health, whose advancement necessitates accurate anticipation of the policy's health outcomes and influencing of policy process for ensuring the health outcomes are taken into consideration. Health impact evaluation represents an approach capable of helping meet both the aforementioned requirements. Policies usually create health impacts through a number of indirect ways, rendering prediction complicated (Kemm, 2001).
A policy aiming for a healthy nation is evidently desirable; however, to achieve this, the following two conditions need to be met:
• Multiple policy options' health… Continue Reading...
(The Society for Public Health, 1993).
Goals of Public Health
Promotion
Societal health promotion has remained public health workers' historical objective. This objective has long constituted the default notion underlying the purpose of the public health sphere, beginning with the basic sanitation issues of the nineteenth century, and other areas later addressed when the welfare societies of the western world were being constructed. But the public health domain began undergoing an expansion in the seventies, to encompass issues pertaining to distribution of some particular population health quantity in a given society. Specifically, health disparities were highlighted as major public health issues, and… Continue Reading...
Health Promotion and Dr. Green’s Precede-Proceed Model
Introduction
Using Dr. Green’s Precede-Proceed Model, the Healthy People 2020 objective of promoting physical activity can be developed into a strategy. The target population of this particular objective consists of adults at a behavioral health clinic located in a low income area. My plan is to execute a 7-week exercise class with health education to promote physical activity. The goal of the plan is to embed physical activity in the daily lives and routines of the adult clients at the clinic. This paper… Continue Reading...
of the health effects of natural and manmade environments. The National Prevention and Health Promotion Council, by building on this initiative, offers a new means to implement a government-wide 'health in every policy' approach. Several NPS (National Prevention Strategy) interventions will extend across sectors and departments, influencing various health results (Fielding, Teutsch, & Koh, 2012). Numerous HIV / AIDS-linked clinical characteristics may be attributed to the intense immune deficiency developing among infected individuals. Immune system breakdown by the human immune virus causes opportunistic infection, and greater vulnerability to malignancy and autoimmune diseases. Moreover, there may be HIV-connected disease manifestations; for instance, in the… Continue Reading...
made by the management and commitment to staffing their facilities adequately.
Implication of the Topic to the Health Promotion
The issue of medical errors is rampant in the modern society. Most health facilities are private businesses, and the owners are seeking to minimize cost and maximize profits. As a result, the private hospitals have few nurses attending many patients who end up being overworked, fatigued, and prone to mistakes. The medical errors are accidental and thus the need to address the matter because it is urgent. The topic addresses the problem in the modern health care that lowers the quality of services from the health care. The… Continue Reading...
diagnosis, treatment, and management. They are specialists in the areas of illness prevention and health promotion, and perform the tasks of ordering, performing, overseeing and interpreting lab and diagnostic tests, prescribing non-pharmacologic treatment and pharmacological mediators, and educating and advising their patients (American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2015).
History of the Nurse Practitioner Role, in General
The demand for individuals providing primary care in the nation grew with the launch of the Medicaid and Medicare initiatives, developed after the enactment of the 1965 Social Security Amendments. The two initiatives ensured low-income kids, women, aged persons, and disabled individuals could now access healthcare. Thus, with… Continue Reading...
topic selected for this community health education project is Physical Education. According to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2018), the goal of Physical Education for Healthy People 2020 is to “improve health, fitness, and quality of life through daily physical activity.” The windshield survey of the population in Maricopa County in Phoenix, Arizona, reveals that very few people in the community are outdoors exercising—few people are seen talking walks, riding bikes, playing sports on playgrounds or on courts, and many people are seen who appear to suffer from obesity. This indicates that there is a need to educate the community on the importance of physical activity.… Continue Reading...
on dialysis and also have congestive heart failure are on fluid restriction. These are all health promotion methods to improve health of patient. This facility is not a male dominance facility. They have both male and female patients.
The mission and values of this facility is reflected in their core values CAPLICO. It stands for celebration, accountability, passion for learning, love one another, intelligent risk taking, customer second and ownership. Employees are encouraged daily to always smile and greet everyone, have a great attitude and work hard. Be polite using please and thank you, do the right thing even when no one is looking. The… Continue Reading...
shows leadership skills in the areas of quality assurance, participation in the community and health promotion of population groups in addition to clinical specialty in their area of practice. Therefore, the key aspect of this relationship is for the NP student to develop leadership, examination, coaching, and discussion skills as a foundation for clinical practice. Moreover, the professional relationship encompasses the process through which information, concepts, principles, and research are incorporated with practice so as to provide professional nursing care (Upstate Medical University, 2016).
Communication and collaboration is another key element between the relationship between the NP student and the preceptor. Taking into consideration… Continue Reading...
health, and preventative health programs are enhanced with the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (ONHPP).
Future Challenges and Needs
Americans are getting old, and fast. Over 10,000 Baby Boomers per day are currently turning 65. In fact, the… Continue Reading...
