My target audiences are Filipino Americans (FAs) and mostly the elderly. In addition, it is important to consider their various learning styles, education level, and preferred languages or dialects. Language is significantly important because not all of them can comprehend English. If I’m able to explain to them in our native language, it’ll be much easier for them to understand the importance of my teaching. According to Marcus (2014) “Communication is effective when patients receive accurate, timely, complete, and unambiguous messages from providers in ways that enable them to participate responsibly in their care.” (Marcus, 2014). In addition, I will incorporate the culture, beliefs and life values that are common for my target …show more content…
I would like to emphasize the health teachings to clarify the facts of the selected health concerns, ideas, and skills, as well as to add onto/ persuade the old knowledge, perception, attitudes, beliefs, and practices of the individuals in the chosen population. In addition, the teaching includes about healthy eating like how to count the carbohydrates intake, identify the types of carbohydrate foods that are important for managing diabetes, and the highlight the importance of the diabetes regimen of a healthy lifestyle such as being active. Health care providers like community health nurses should deliver a detailed educational session regarding diabetes, especially to FAs residents and a referral with various support programs for all of the residents to lower the costs and reduce the amount for hospitalization and mortality rate. The goal is to improve the quality of life of the residents in the community and learn more about their condition. Focusing on primary and health promotions of an individual and as well as properly addressing the most important or relevant topics to the residents and the community’s health needs and issues. The goal in this nation, for a healthy population in 2020, is to improve the quality of life as residents learn more about their condition and how to prevent it before it
There is considerable evidence of the Lee’s having both low print and oral literacy. The Lee’s spoke very little English; they also were illiterate in both English and Hmong (Faidman, 1997). Another contributing factor to their health literacy was their beliefs about medicine. Because of the dissonance between the Lee’s beliefs and the American medical system, it was unclear if the Lee’s fully understood the cause of Lia’s epilepsy or the purpose of her prescribed medication. Their motivation to learn may also have been a factor; they believed they already knew what caused Lia’s epilepsy and what healing she needed. Faidman describes cases of successfully communicating western medical ideals with Hmong people, but Lia’s case is not an example of effective cross-cultural understanding. The Lee’s low level of health literacy severely impacted their ability to successfully understand and administer Lia’s medication, which may have negatively affected her health outcomes. Some strategies to improve communication suggested by Egbert and Nanna (2009) that may have helped the Lee’s include using plain language that is culturally sensitive, spending more time with the patient to ensure understanding, and using a, “...teach-back method, in which patients repeat back to the provider the information they believe they have just
Diabetes education is a structured education and self-management (at diagnosis and regularly reviewed and reinforced) to promote awareness. Diet and lifestyle, healthy diet, weight loss if the person is overweight, smoking cessation, regular physical exercise. Maximizing glucose control while minimizing adverse effects of treatment such as hypoglycemia. Reduction of other risk factors for complications of diabetes, including the early detection and management of hypertension, drug treatment to modify lipid levels and consideration of antiplatelet therapy with aspirin. Early intervention for complications of diabetes,, including cardiovascular disease, feet problems, eye problems, kidney problems and neuropathy.
‘Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation’ is a white paper which was initiated in 1999. The Department of Health (DOH) ordered strategies aimed at reducing ill-health with specific attention to cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke, accidents, and mental health. £21billion over 10years was given to the NHS to ensure a target of 20% reduction in deaths associated with these conditions.
The goal of this lesson is to explore how we can improve communication to eliminate language barriers between healthcare providers and patients in our organization and to establish culturally and linguistically appropriate goals, that provide safe, equal, and quality care to all our clients regardless of race, ethnic, or socioeconomic status. At the end of this lesson we should be
Practice setting is a vital arena for construction of new knowledge by healthcare practitioners (Higgs et al, 2004). On reflection during this dissertation, explicit or empirical knowledge has played a large part in my decision to initiate and implement the new practice as it has involved analysis of current practice and reviewing current literature. It has enables me to recognised the philosophy of diabetic care that been practiced and the needs of appropriate development to improve diabetes care through more effective and up-dated philosophy of care. Besides that, I have identifies the conflict that exist in diabetes education practice not only at my practice but throughout the state in my country.
The Healthy People 2020 (Healthy People 2020, 2014) is a nationwide program created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to achieve objectives for promoting health and preventing diseases. Faith based communities may benefit tremendously in including these objectives in program planning. The main goal is for the American people to have long, healthy lives. The Healthy People 2020 program provides measurable objectives that can be applied down to the local level such as in faith based communities. These guidelines encourage high quality of life by being healthy, disease-free, accessible healthcare, and have an environment that promotes good health and wellbeing in all age levels.
APRNs could write culturally relevant health promotional literature on diabetic disease management and make the literature available at public health clinics, primary care clinics, local parishes and senior centers. The literature needs to be available in multiple languages ...
Healthy people 2020 can be defined as that arm of the government launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2010 with 4 goals which include attaining high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death; achieving health equity, eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all groups of people; creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all people; and promoting the quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all stages of life (CDC, 2015).
“Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.” ( United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Healthy People 2020 , 2011). It acts as a national guide for disease prevention and health promotion. There are various objectives and goals which serve as the guideline to achieve overall improvement in health . ‘Educational and Community-Based Programs’ is one of them. According to U.S Department of Health and Human Services the main goal of these programs is to “Increase the quality, availability, and effectiveness of educational and community-based programs designed to prevent disease and injury, improve health, and enhance quality of life.” (HHS, Healthy People 2020, 2011). This particular goal of Healthy People 2020 focuses on increasing the number educational and community based programs to increase awareness about disease prevention and health among every individual of the society. It focuses on educating them on various topics including chronic diseases, substance abuse, prevention of injury and violence to encourage and enhance health. It emphasizes on increasing the quantity and quality of such programs so that a larger population could benefit from the program and gain effective knowledge to achieve a healthy life.
With the current literature research diabetes a growing among patients across the world. There several ways nursing can educate their patients on this disease that is killing their patients day to day. Educating their patients on getting physically active, changing their diet, and not smoking our some
Specific purpose: To inform my audience about what diabetes is, what causes this condition and its health effects.
In recent years, diabetes education has become an integral part of diabetes treatment (Piccinino et al, 2015). The 2012 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) defines education as an exchange of knowledge, tools and practices that will address client needs. Patients need information about their illness, side effects, complications and how to care for it. Diabetes education must be effective and accurate in quality, content, and method (Atak & Arslan, 2005). Diabetes education should happen concurrently with diagnosis and throughout treatment for a patient and should involve a structured program.
Additionally, the patient is taught on the need to assess their blood glucose level and note any patterns in subsequent assessments. It is also important for the diabetes patient to be aware of the physical activities they can engage in for short and long terms goals. More so, the patients are educated on the need to engage in behavior change as well as make necessary lifestyle changes to avoid complications. Therefore, carrying a research study about diabetes self-management education among Hispanics will be beneficial in creating knowledge in the most appropriate language to use in the education materials so that the patients can be in a position to improve their knowledge of the disease and the best management practices (Gucciardi, Chan, Manuel, and Sidani, 2013). Moreover, the patients the healthcare sector will be at ease of producing relevant materials at reduced costs as offer them affordable to the patients of
Healthy People 2020 is a program for the promotion of health and the prevention of diseases, launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2010. According to healthypeople.gov, this program has four overarching goals which are first to achieve healthy, longer lives free of preventable diseases, injuries, and premature deaths; to achieve health fairness, eliminate differences, and improve all groups’ health; also to produce social and physical environments that encourage good health; and last but not least to promote life’s quality, healthy development, and healthy behaviors through all life stages. This program has a vision of a community where people live long, healthy lives. Healthy People 2020 offers a comprehensive set of 10 years of nationwide goals and objectives that is meant to improve the health of the American population. Healthy People 2020 covers 42 topic areas with approximately 600 objectives, which include 1,200 measures. A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, has been designated to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them, this objectives are called Leading Health Indicators. The program goes above and beyond these health indicators in order to provide the best care for the people of this country. These indictors cover from the access of health service, nutrition, physical activity, and obesity to substance abuse, environmental quality, injury and violence.
Diabetes is a common disease, which can be a serious life-long illness caused by high level of glucose in the blood. This condition is when the body cannot produce insulin or lack of insulin production from the beta cells in the islet of Langerhans in the pancreas. Diabetes can cause other health problems over a period. Eye, kidneys, and nerves can get damaged and chances of stroke are always high. Because of the serious complication, the purposes of teaching plan for diabetes patient are to optimize blood glucose control, optimize quality of life, and prevent chronic and potentially life-threatening complications.