Nurses Role In Health Promotion
Nursing’s Role in Health Promotion and Prevention Sheri Lancaster
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-0101-Family Centered Health Promotion
September 26, 2014 Nurse’s Role in Health Promotion and Prevention According to the Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing (2012), health promotion is defined as, “Any activity that seeks to improve a person’s or population’s health by providing information about, and increasing awareness of, at-risk behaviors associated with various diseases, with the intent of reducing those behaviors”. The purpose of health promotion is to provide people with the necessary tools and education to empower them to adjust their current lifestyles to achieve a higher state of wellbeing. The following …show more content…
This can present a challenge for nurses who must also continually evolve their methods of teaching to fit the client’s specific needs. According to Edelman, Kudzma & Mandle (2014), in order to meet these challenges, nurses need to be able to assist the patient’s behavioral changes, by valuing individual lifestyles, values and beliefs and incorporating these into the teaching methods used so that personal health goals can be achieved. Nurses also carry the responsibility to act as role models. It can be difficult for a nurse to teach the importance of weight reduction in preventions of illness and gain buy-in from the client, when the nurse is also overweight. Other areas of nursing roles and responsibilities include community involvement and development. This can involve facilitating educational classes within the community and outside of the clinical setting. Nurses can also fill their health promotion role through political avenues as well by influencing changes in public policy relating to …show more content…
According to article, “Stroke Policy and Secondary Prevention: How Well are We Adhering to These Guidelines” indicates that it is important for nurses to recognize the signs of a stroke in a hospitalized patient and obtain early screening (ultrasound) and treatment with anticoagulant medications can reduce the residual effects of a stroke. Educating the patient also includes many of the same risk reducing lifestyle and health modifications as seen in primary
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-0101-Family Centered Health Promotion
September 26, 2014 Nurse’s Role in Health Promotion and Prevention According to the Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing (2012), health promotion is defined as, “Any activity that seeks to improve a person’s or population’s health by providing information about, and increasing awareness of, at-risk behaviors associated with various diseases, with the intent of reducing those behaviors”. The purpose of health promotion is to provide people with the necessary tools and education to empower them to adjust their current lifestyles to achieve a higher state of wellbeing. The following …show more content…
This can present a challenge for nurses who must also continually evolve their methods of teaching to fit the client’s specific needs. According to Edelman, Kudzma & Mandle (2014), in order to meet these challenges, nurses need to be able to assist the patient’s behavioral changes, by valuing individual lifestyles, values and beliefs and incorporating these into the teaching methods used so that personal health goals can be achieved. Nurses also carry the responsibility to act as role models. It can be difficult for a nurse to teach the importance of weight reduction in preventions of illness and gain buy-in from the client, when the nurse is also overweight. Other areas of nursing roles and responsibilities include community involvement and development. This can involve facilitating educational classes within the community and outside of the clinical setting. Nurses can also fill their health promotion role through political avenues as well by influencing changes in public policy relating to …show more content…
According to article, “Stroke Policy and Secondary Prevention: How Well are We Adhering to These Guidelines” indicates that it is important for nurses to recognize the signs of a stroke in a hospitalized patient and obtain early screening (ultrasound) and treatment with anticoagulant medications can reduce the residual effects of a stroke. Educating the patient also includes many of the same risk reducing lifestyle and health modifications as seen in primary