Health promotion definition:
The process of implementing strategies to support, encourage, or enhance wellness and improve health.
Health promotion outcomes: Utilize the nursing process and a broad knowledge base to maximize health
1.) Utilize concepts of health promotion to educate patients across the lifespan
Throughout this semester, I feel like I have increased my perception and knowledge of health promotion by learning and applying certain concepts in class. Topics like education, empowerment, and follow-up interventions were all key concepts within this concept. I think we primarily emphasized education in health promotion in class. With education, it was important to be direct, clear, and realistic. It is also important to consider how a patient learns. These key concepts are all tied into priority concept activities. These activities have helped me apply what I have learned in potential real-life scenarios. For example, in the sheets we have SMART goals, which stand for: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. This portion (SMART goal) of the priority concept activity is very relevant to the concept of health promotion because it guides how we were going to improve the patient's health in a realistic manner. These SMART goals could be written specifically for the nurses' interventions/plans or for the patient, as we could help write a goal for their own well-being.
This semester helped me to enhance my awareness of ethical and legal duties in nursing, especially while caring for vulnerable or stigmatized groups. I selected the group presentation Ethical Considerations in Caring for Inmates as the artifact for this goal because it forced me to address actual ethical issues that nurses deal with, such prejudice, a lack of autonomy, and privacy concerns. I learned how ethical principles influence choices even in circumstances that contradict one's moral convictions or cause moral discomfort while preparing this project.
Studying subjects like nurse prejudice, and the constraints put on patient autonomy helped me appreciate how important it is for nurses to preserve dignity, respect, and nonjudgmental care for every patient.
Provision One of the ANA Code of Ethics promotes compassion and respect for all persons, and this assignment helped me grasp how that value applies in difficult instances. I found that ethical practice is not just understanding rules but about recognizing when my own opions and bias may interfere with fair treatment..
I came to see how rapidly ethical dilemmas appear and how crucial it is to ask questions, speak properly, and seek assistance when something feels questionable. Even simple actions, like avoiding judgments about their background has helped me see that ethical treatment is created from numerous moment-to-moment choices.
Through this collabrative shildeshow health promotion is seen as it was shared amoung peers to educate on the ethical dilemas of nursing.
Ethical dilema on inmates shildeshow