The Role of the Professional Nurse in Health Promotion and Protection in Communities University of Missouri‚ St. Louis Introduction: Health Promotion and Health Protection Defined There are many different definitions of health promotion and protection and all of them sound fairly similar. Pender (2006) describes health promotion as a behavior motivated by the desire to increase well being and actualize human health potential and describes health protection as behavior motivated by the
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Health Promotion in Nursing Care 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
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Nursing practice has been transformed from a basic healing and caring concept to a multiple facets of systematic health care collections in an imperative need of rapid changing society over the last century. In order to ensure safe practice of nursing‚ regulation and supervision by legislations serves its purpose. Nurses could obtain nursing regulation information through numerous sources. “National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is an independent‚ not-for-profit organization through
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Health is defined as a state in which human needs are met in an autonomic way‚ and is not limited to the absence of disease or disablement (V. Henderson). Optimal health is a lively‚ self-motivated equilibrium of physical‚ intellectual‚ spiritual‚ emotional‚ and social well-being. The concept of health promotion delineates the method of empowering people to increase control over‚ and to advance their own overall health. The main purpose of health promotion is to heighten
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Exploring health promotion prevention levels Exploring health promotion prevention levels Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization ’s 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants‚ and thereby improve their health.” As advocates for their patients‚ nurses must focus on health promotion education and activities. To fully understand the nursing role in
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Nursing is a dynamic profession and requires constant change in order to provide the best care for patients. These changes arise from medical advances‚ research and more often times‚ theories. (Srof‚ 2009) The Health Promotion Model theory proposed by Nola Pender‚ a former professor at the University of Michigan‚ is a unique theory that focuses on a complimentary counterpart to the health protection models. The Health Promotion Model theory focuses on a multipronged approach to a persons overall
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Continuum of Health Promotion Significant changes are required in health care‚ and the profession of nursing in particular‚ to meet the mandates required by the 2010 passage of healthcare reform laws. Such new options for illness prevention and wellness through health promotion will provide greater opportunities for nurses to work outside the traditional hospital settings. Nurses are best equipped to provide safe‚ quality‚ patient-centered care in an affordable and accessible manner. Appropriate
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DISTRIBUTION C h a p t e r 3 Health Promotion Theories Bonnie Raingruber Objectives At the conclusion of this chapter‚ the student will be able to: ●● Compare and contrast nursing and non-nursing health promotion theories. ●● Examine health promotion theories for consistency with accepted health promotion priorities and values. ●● Articulate how health promotion theories move the profession forward. ●● Discuss strengths and limitations associated with each health promotion theory or model. ●● Describe
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Health promotion is the process of fostering awareness‚ influencing attitudes and identifying alternatives so that people can make informed choices and change behavior to achieve an optimal level of physical and mental health and improve their physical and social environments (Black and Hawk‚ 2005).Health Promotion Model also recognizes that interpersonal influences affect an individual’s behavior. Interpersonal influences‚ which include expectations significant others‚ the social support received
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Kawachi‚ 2000) Health promotion stems from these factors whereby focussing on the individual’s behaviour by influencing changes in variety of aspects such as families‚ communities work places and eventually encouraging individuals to adopt healthy practices (Green‚ 1984). The role of a nurse in health promotion and education is considered as a key by numerous researchers and policy initiatives from the government to promote health comprehending the essentiality of health promotion (Norton‚ 1998)
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