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…
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
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…
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