Introduction
Boosting good quality information for patients, their families and the public was a duty in the National Health Service(NHS) Plan (July 2000, chapter 10) and part of the proposals in the Kennedy Report into the Bristol Royal Infirmary (July 2001, section 2, chapter 23) all cited in Department of Health (DH) (2008). Producing quality information to patients and members of the public will not only allow them to interpret their health needs but also enable them to make right decision for themselves and their families (DH, 2006). One of the methods of doing this is through health education which is one of the components of health promotion (Naidoo and Wills, 2009; Ewles and Simnett, 2003; Brooker and Waught, 2007). Health education can be described as: helping people to enhance and take control their own health; influencing people to decide and support healthful practices; delivering information; raising understanding of health issues and circumstances leading to ill health just to mention a few (Brooker and Waught, 2007; Naidoo and Wills, 2009; Ewles and Simnett, 2003).
This piece of work is aim at appraising a health education leaflet (Appendix 1) associated to a present-day NHS campaign on health promotion and which for the reason of this assignment will throughout this work will be called “the leaflet”. Sizing up this leaflet will include: a description of why this leaflet was chosen; the origin of the leaflet; dissection of the design and typography of the leaflet including the effectiveness of textual layout and illustration supported by references and finally, an appraisal of the information content contained within the leaflet.
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The leaflet which is found at the end of this piece of work (Appendix...
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Department of Health (2006) The Information Standard [Online]. Available from: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/PatientChoice... [Accessed 5th June 2010].
Department of Health (2008) Toolkit for Producing Patient Information. [Online]. Available from: http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsidentify. [Accessed 5th June 2010].
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Studies show that patients forget at least half of the information explained to them (Tamaru-Lis, 2013, p. 268). In addition, low health literacy correlates with poor disease management, readmissions, and poor compliance to treatments (Eadie, 2014, p. 9). The goal of teach-back, therefore, is to improve recollection and increase health literacy. Nursing practice is aimed towards meeting these goals. Ultimately, nursing practice will improve as nurses are better able to deliver quality care, promote patient safety, and increase patient satisfaction. As a result, patient outcomes are optimized because teach-back minimizes communication errors and encourages participation. Participation allows patients to make appropriate decisions which direct health care professionals to provide patient-centered care.
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One organization that creates and provides standards for healthcare and the implementation of healthcare software is American Society for Testing and Materiel (ASTM). In 2004, ASTM released a standard that would change the interoperability of healthcare software forever. This standard is known as the ASTM E2369, the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard. The was first release of CCR was ASTM E2369-4 and was a word document that allowed interoperability between primary care physicians for the exchange of patient summary information (Sween, 2012). The CCR provides “snapshots” of a patient’s administrative, demographic, and clinical information (E31.25, 2012). The information in this snapshot focus on mainly the diagnosis an...
The role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) in health care has been identified as a critical role in the goal to provide high-quality health care. APRNs have a bigger role to play in the health care system and it is important that students are provided with relevant and valuable knowledge as well as experience that improve their abilities. Achieving course objectives are critical for APRNs with the goal of contributing positively to the health care system. As a future APRN, I place high priority on life-long learning and the development of other people’s skill sets. All duties associated with health care require a dedication to excellence and selflessness. These are two components of learning that will improve the capabilities of
this will cause healthcare providers with the training and education needed for clinical documentation improvements to be installed effectively. It is important that having a specialized team who can create solutions towards Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) in order to minimize the failures that may occur. In this case, investing in training for the materials/tools necessary for healthcare providers to excel in their work with CDI. Essentially, Clinical Documentation is used throughout the healthcare system for the analysis of care, communication, and medical records. This is important because the information of medical records that healthcare providers are able to access, will help patients track their health conditions. Thus, clinical documentation improvement has a direct impact on patients by providing quality information. On the other hand, the new technological advancements will also be able to address the efficiencies in health care system that differ from paper-based charting. Improving on the quality of information will also have the effect upon the ethical and effectiveness of care that is being provided. This has a significant impact in order to maintain patient care that ensures the documentation is accurate, timely, and reflect within the services provided. Documentation assessments can be utilized so there can be improvements on the education for healthcare providers as they intend implementation standards take effect immediately. In this case, failures must be analyzed so that they will have the ability to comprehend and determine an organization’s strengths and weaknesses
Data and information are integrated into each step of the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. ("Nursing Excellence." Nursing Informatics 101. Web. 19 Nov. 2014.) Following this process, nursing informatics personnel can organize and set each file and record accordingly based on the care process. Since health care providers communicate primarily through the notes they write in a patient’s chart, nurse informaticists seek to continually improve the speed, timeliness and accuracy of patient charting. Working with the accurate information is key to nurses in all fields of the spectrum. It is beneficial to the health care providers that information is precise and up-to-date so the care will be more than sufficient. When health workers have access to more up-to-date, complete patient notes, they can make better decisions about a patient’s care and use the appropriate resources to better help the quality of the patient’s care doctors can
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Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. There are a number of significant approaches that underpin the practice of health promotion. Tannahill (1996) postulated that all approaches are interrelated, but individually seen; they reflect distinctive ways of looking or approaches health issues. These models includes medical, education, behaviour change, empowerment and social change. The models that connect these approaches are Becker (1994), Claplan and Holland’s (1990), Beattie (1991), Tannahill Downie et al (1996) and Tones, Tones and Tilford (1994).
The charter consists of three health promotion strategies, these are to enable, mediate, and advocate which is needed and applied to all health promotion action areas (HSC, 2015). ‘’Health promotion is the process of enabling people to aware and to make individuals improve their health’’ (Betterhealth, 2011). The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that health promotion is ‘’the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions’’ (WHO,
There are many actions the health professional can take to help increase their patients’ health literacy. Some steps are simple, easy to complete. Other tasks take the cooperation of multiple departments and people, but are just as important to help improve health literacy. The first step to ...
The office of disease prevention and health promotion is the organization I have chosen for this this assignment. This organization has several issues they address, but I have chosen health literacy and communication due its relevance to all individuals/humans. Although, disease is presents itself in several forms good health is what we desire, because no one’s goal is to suffer from any form of health altering condition.
Society today has been neglected due to the increase levels of underlined issues that could be avoided if an intervention is not in place to help safeguard many potential problems that the healthcare system has failed to work on for their patients. “Gerjo Kok (2007) reports health promotion is a planned activity, stimulating learning through communication to promote health behavior. Health promotion planning involves a series of phases where quality of life, health problems, health behavior, determinants of behavior and possible interventions are successively analyzed, followed by the development and implementation of the intervention and evaluation of the process, impact and outcome. Careful planning is important, since quality of planning
The World Health Organization (WHO) (2010) defines obesity and being overweight as an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Body mass index (BMI) as Arterburn et al (2008) put forward is a measure of body fat based on height and weight and further suggest that any individual with a BMI of more than 30 is considered as obese. WHO (1986) defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Tannahill et al (1999) propound that health education could be viewed as communication activity aimed at enhancing positive health and preventing ill health in individuals and groups by influencing their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour of persons with power and of the community. Butler et al (2008) defines health prevention as the measures for early detection of departure from good health. Whereas Heath (2002) concur that the role and function of the nurse emphasise on health promotion and illness prevention, the Department of Health (2003) emphasises on th...
Many definitions of ‘health’ have been given over time, yet the concept is often seen as difficult to affirm. Traditionally, it was defined in a scientific or medical context, largely based on the normal or abnormal biological and physiological functioning of the body (Wills, 2008). However, as perceptions of health continued to develop, this perspective, once dominant in western medicine has often been challenged (Wade, 2004). In 1948, The World Health Organization defined health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity '. Suggesting that in order to determine an individual’s experience of health or illness it would require the consideration of biological, psychological