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Health promotion

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Select a health promotion and or education item that is related to your health promotion project. It may be a pamphlet that you have used in your clinical area, or found in a drugstore or other health facility. Analyze the item using a readability tool, such as the Gunning Fog or Flesch Reading Ease Readability Score.
Be sure to note why you selected the readability tool as well as the target audience for the item. Follow the instructions to calculate a readability score and determine whether the health promotion item is appropriate for the target audience of the item. Please show your calculations of the readability score, either as part of the paper or as an appendix.
Analyze the writing style of the Health promotion item (eg. white space, use of pictures and or diagrams using Wizowski, Harper, & Hutchings (2008) document Writing health Information for Patients and Families (posted in Canvas), using the checklists beginning on page 104 as your guide. Take into account the socioeconomic demographics of the population with whom you be sharing this item. Lastly, identify what, if anything should be changed to make the item more user friendly and accessible for your population.

 

 

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Describe a client using certain characteristics such as age, social supports, and type of community.
Describe the social determinants to health promotion for a specific client in your community with whom you are familiar.
Describe the role of social support in health promotion for this client.
Describe the relationship between social support and social determinants in accessing health promotion for this client.

 

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Health promotion is the act of empowering clients to take control over and achieve their optimal
level of health. Utilizing the topics listed below and evidence-based practice, you will write a
scholarly paper on health promotion including the following:
• Introduction to the topic (select one of the topics below)
• Description of the disease process (topic) selected
• Implement 4 health promotion measures involved in the prevention and care of
client with the disease process (topic) selected from the textbook, nursing journal
articles, and evidence-based practice, including complementary therapies.
• Analyze how health promotion can improve the client’s overall health and avoid
complications (include modifiable and non-modifiable factors such as age,
gender, ethnicity, and lifestyle). Be sure to compare/contrast what happens to
patients if they implement health promotion strategies and what could happen if
these activities are not implemented.
• Reflection on what you learned from the assignment and how it will impact your
practice in the future

 

 

 

Health promotion, maintenance

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review the latest evidence based guidelines as they pertain to the case below. Discussion of the case is based on the course objectives and weekly content, which emphasize the core learning objectives for an evidence-based primary care curriculum. Throughout your nurse practitioner program, case study discussions are used to promote the development of clinical reasoning through the use of ongoing assessments and diagnostic skills, and to develop patient care plans that are grounded in the latest clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice.

Ms. Martin is a 55-year-old woman who has been on HRT for 4 years. HRT was prescribed because Ms. Martin was experiencing vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause. Her last mammogram was 2 years ago and last pap was 5 years ago. Ms. Martin made an appointment with her nurse practitioner to discuss discontinuing HRT after hearing and reading news reports about the dangers associated with the medication. Except for the HRT, Ms. Martin is taking no medication other than a daily vitamin. She had a tubal ligation after the birth of her third child but has had no other surgeries or history of any medical conditions. Her father had cardiovascular disease and died of a myocardial infarction at 77 years of age. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at 81 years of age. Ms. Martin does not smoke and rarely drinks alcohol. She likes to work in her garden but is not involved in a formal exercise program. She has gained about 10 pounds since menopause.

What evidence-based information will you provide to Ms. Martin regarding her concerns of HRT? Discuss the advantages and risks associated with HRT.
What are your recommendations for Ms. Martin? Will you recommend continuing or discontinuing HRT and why?
What alternative treatments for menopausal symptoms will you discuss with Ms. Martin?
Discuss the recommended screening tests, using the latest evidence based guidelines that Ms. Martin should have.
What health promotion, maintenance, and prevention education would be important to provide to Ms. Martin?

 

 

Health Promotion

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1. How should you respond if your health promotion values conflict with a client’s values? 2. What ethical issue have you recently encountered when teaching health promotion strategies to a patient? What ethical decision-making process did you use? 3. How should you use Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns to assess individual health? What health screening interventions do you regularly participate in? 4. What family characteristics may contribute to potential or actual dysfunctional health patterns? 5. Watch the Ted Talk video, What if our health care system kept us healthy? And answer the following: What role does your facility play in keeping people healthy? Would the Health Leads program work in your facility? Why or why not?

6. How do the nutrition and fitness goals in Healthy People 2010 compare to those in Healthy People 2020? 7. What resources do you use to determine safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine?? 8. Discuss some of the psychophysiological aspects of stress. Which evidence-based stress management interventions do you apply to clinical practice? How effective are they? 9. What methods can nurses use to actively influence health policies and legislation? 10. Discuss the controversy regarding childhood immunization and the potential affect on community health.

watch the film, And the Band Played On. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5RrxvfVJU.What factors inhibited the early war against acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)? Do you believe the AIDS outbreak could have been stopped? Why or why not? What role does advocacy play in the film? How much publicity does HIV/AIDS receive today? What’s the story of HIV/AIDS in the 21st century? Explain. 12. How do occupation and culture influence psychosocial stressors that affect middle-aged adults? How does your occupation influence psychosocial stressors?

 

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Palliative/end of life nursing care

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Select 1 Non-Western modern culture and reflect on one of the following topics in that cultural context as it relates to palliative/end-of-life nursing care:
Pain management
Health promotion
Sexual health and intimacy
Bereavement
Spirituality
Family caregiving