In the following essay, the author will discuss the definition of health promotion; how a general nurse can approach promoting health to the public or a patient, as well as in marginalised groups. Similarly, the author will examine why a general nurse should promote safe sex to select groups such as women over forty and to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) community. Also discussed is how a nurse can promote health promotion using the model of empowerment. Finally, the author will cover how using the health promotion model of empowerment, nurses can promote safe sex more efficiently. This will be backed up through diverse references and statistics from the Irish Healthcare Policy, as well as from various journal articles …show more content…
Most of them describe health promotion as the promotion of healthy lifestyle, habits and behaviours, which if followed, could decrease illness and disease. Health promotion highlights the importance of intervention to inhibit disease and promote wellbeing, rather than relying upon remedial efforts to cure their damaging effects (Laverack 2004). By promoting a healthy lifestyle and behaviours to an individual or community, it can decrease likely diseases and illnesses which possibly may develop due to their current lifestyle. General Nurses have a significant role to play in both hindrance and treatment services (Department of Public Health 2005). As nurses already have a large role in the health care system and the community, they can easily promote healthy living by educating people in healthy lifestyles and behaviours. Also, nursing management has a key part to play in promoting the recognition and significance of health promotion to nurses (Chan &Perry 2012). Nurses should be informed of their role in health promotion, and given the right knowledge in promoting it to the public, thus helping them combat the likeliness of related diseases developing in high-risk …show more content…
Sometimes, due to the fear of discrimination, an LGBT person may decline preventive care, suspend care, or hide sexual orientation or activities from their healthcare provider (Sanders 2012). Nurses using the right communication skills can breach the topic of safe sex in a more sensitive manner, allowing their client to freely talk about this topic and thus educate them more thoroughly. In a study performed by Rhodes et al. (2014) the research found that, in order to reach gays, bisexual men, MSM and transgender people, education on topics such as decreasing sexual risks and increase HIV and STI screening, as well as interventions concerning said topics, should progress as follows: fill in the knowledge gaps they may have, correcting any misconceptions. They should also promote condom use and encourage HIV testing within the context relationship, providing guidance on how to retrieve limited resources ( e.g. HIV and STI screening, condoms and other services) and “what to expect” when accessing these services. With more research like this, nurses and other health care professionals can provide services that the LGBT community can access in a safe and, more importantly, friendly environment. This is incredibly important if the Department of Health wishes to decrease the growing number of people infected with
The syphilis outbreak affected many teenagers in this community and revealed their lives unknown to parents: group sex, binge drinking, drugs and violence. Some were as young as twelve and thirteen years old. But how a nurse leader can fix this? My recommended nursing intervention covers: the individual/family, community and systematic levels. Interventions include: sex education curriculum, afterschool recreation programs, and parental patrol.
Often in practice, we as nurses deal with a variety of diseases and treatments and often have to react to the illness that the patient presents with upon our interaction. While this is an essential piece of our practice, we also have a duty to our patients to be proactive in preventing specific health-related consequences based on their risk factors and to promote their health and well being. Health promotion as it relates to nursing is about us empowering our patients to increase their control over their lives and well beings and includes: focusing on their health not just illness, empowering our patients, recognizing that health involves many dimensions and is also effected by factors outside of their control (Whitehead et al. 2008)..
The role of the nurse is vital in disseminating information about cervical screening and accurate information about HPV vaccination. Encouraging women to practice healthy lifestyle and advocating safer sex empowers young women to be cautious with their sexual
D.P. receives an abundance of support in her life. She finds most of her motivation from her family because family means the world to her. The members in her family will encourage her to do her best along with attending diabetic information groups. She finds the support and motivation from her family to be a great way to help deal with her diabetes. Other family members who have diabetes or know someone else with diabetes helps her realize that this is not necessarily an ending of freedom or her life. The health care professionals also have an impact on D.P.’s motivational level as they give her options and techniques to improve her ways of living in order to cope with diabetes. Fox and Chesla (2008) see the positive inspirational outcome a
Safe staffing issue has been identified as one of the problem in health care. The problem resulted from the inappropriate ratio between the nurse and the number of patients a nurse takes care within a shift. Patients and nurses well-being are being at risk because of the inappropriate safe staffing because of nurses feeling overwhelmed and stressed with their job. It was learned from the previous papers that the issue with staff level can be intervened by applying the theory of Health Promotion Model as a framework in assisting nurse leaders in creating policies that ensure healthy and appropriate work practices, determine the appropriate number of nurse to
The purpose of the scholarly paper part two is to demonstrate the completion of the evidence-based homeless health promotion project; it is specific to the population living in Miami, Florida. Part two of the project presents evidence-based interventions to address measurable and unfavorable health outcomes associated with risk factors that were identified in part one of the project. Also, health promotion project evaluation will be provided.
The health promotion is a key factor process of permitting people to increase control over their health status in order to improve it. It not only covers the actions directly aimed at increasing the skills and capabilities of individuals, but is also aimed at changing the social, environmental and economic issues that impact on healthy habits.
...knowledge about their specific health needs. They also can implement medical education classes for LGBT issues in healthcare. However, all these ideas is just simply a start, with new data of the numbers of the minority group, we can measure how much the federal government can fund for the specialized education and or medical needs. Also educating the staff and medical students is important to help create any facility whether it is a hospital or small clinic to become a LGBT friendly environment. This helps decrease the need for specialized facilities for the LGBT community because of hospitals denying individual’s treatment because of their orientation will be diminished.
Health Promotion Theory in Nursing Christopher Gonzales Samuel Merritt University The concept of health promotion is a key focus in today’s healthcare. It is utilized and supported by many pertinent organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions” (2014).
As part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, a national goal has been set to improve the health and well-being of women, infants, children, and families. This is an important public health movement considering their well-being determines the health of the next generation and can help predict future public health challenges for families, communities, and the health care system. Since there are many social and physical determinants of maternal, infant, and child health, recent efforts have been focused on addressing disparities by employing a “life course” perspective to health promotion and disease prevention. MICH 10.2 is an objective that seeks to improve the population’s health and well-being by increasing the proportion of pregnant women
Health promotion is a multifaceted movement with a core value on respect, empowerment, equity, inclusion and social justice (MacDougall 2002). Aims to achieve holistic health, while it is influenced by medical and social determinants. These determinants which aids to deter...
Sexual health and well being is a substantial community health issue, mostly for adolescents and young adults and has led to become a current issue of the twenty-first century. Relationship and sexual health education is a critical part of the life learning experience in adolescents (Morrison-Beedy, Passmore & Carey, 2013). The school nurse has the responsibility to provide effective health literacy and health promotion strategies to empower students to make safe decisions in regard to their sexual health (Makenzius & Larsson,
To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is, therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy life-styles to wellbeing. Health promotion goes beyond health care. It puts health on the agenda of policy makers in all sectors and at all levels. It directs policy makers to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions and accept their responsibilities for
Health Promotional Strategies For promotional programs to be effective, the health promotional programs must be promoted in a manner that reaches the mass general public. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so forth create highly interactive platforms in which individuals and communities not only to share and voice their opinions and concerns, but could also serves as an outlet for informational distribution pertaining to health promotional programs. Social media compliments existing promotion strategies as the public platforms are becoming increasingly used among the majority of society’s age and ethnic groups. By investing in social media presence, health promotional programs would be capable in utilizing this platform in order to create an impact among individuals and the general community (Ramanadhan, Mendez, Rao, & Viswanath, 2013).
Health promotion is the process of improving health status of a person and prevention of disease by enabling the person to take control of their health. It is not just the absence of disease (Maben, & Clark, 1995). Health promotion is commonly used term in health care world, and in current society the promotion of health has greater significance, especially with the rise in consumerism. Health promotion is a vital concept for nursing, symbolizing notions that nursing is related today. Nurses are being urged to take a health promotion role, and are deemed by others as an ideal role for them. It is therefore crucial that nurses cognize the meaning of health promotion and also what is expected from them by undertaking this