CHP 6 Health Promotion and the Individual Flashcards
What do nurses practice in health promotion?
Assess patterns
Use their assessment findings to facilitate individuals’ maintenance of or progression toward wellness
Why is it important to perform a health promotion assessment?
It target strategies to prevent illness
The framework of holistic nursing is congruent with…
identifying individuals’ assets and using strength-based assessment
What four American Holistic Nursing Association’s core values make up Holism?
Philosophy
Self-care
Holistic nursing process
Holistic/therapeutic communication
What do nurses identify in strength-based assessment and what strategies that it lead to?
They identify individuals’ harmonious patterns of health and these strengths and resilience provide a foundation to empower individuals through role modeling, encouragement, and self-advocacy.
What activities has been performed by Healthy People since 1979?
Established nation goals
Provided a framework for prevention
Published national health objectives building on the original Healthy People initiative that aim to identify the most significant preventable threats to health
What are the overall goals of healthy people?
Attaining high-quality longer lives
Decreasing health disparity
Create environments that promote health and improve the quality of life for all
How does nursing play a part in health in the United States and worldwide?
Nursing plays an integral part in national initiatives for health promotion and prevention of disease and incorporating autonomous, collaborative care for people of all ages
The scope of nursing practice provides the ideal foundation for leadership globally
How can the nurse use asset-based approaches to care?
They use assessment strategies which includes health promotion that address interactions among an individual’s biophysical state, psychosocial state, spiritual state, and patterns with the environment
Also use primary prevention techniques which includes generalized health promotion and specific protection from disease
Which component of a health promotion assessment differs from other assessments?
Targets strategies to prevent illness
Which statement describes the underlying belief of nursing research in relation to health promotion?
Includes the identification of assets
Empowerment of individuals is the goal
The foundation is a strength-based assessment
Strategies include role-modeling and encouraging
Which nursing action is an asset-based approach to care?
Concentrating on strengths
Effective health assessment considers both…
Physiologic parameters
How the human interacts with the whole environment
What are the philosophical foundation of Gordon’s functional health patterns and what does it provide?
Holism and the totality of the person’s interactions with the environment
Provides the context for collecting data that provides information about the entire person and most life process
Framework to assess individuals, families, and communities holistically
Strong underpinning for more effective nursing interventions and outcomes
What are the five focus areas of Gordon’s functional health patterns?
Pattern
Individual-environmental
Age-developmental
Functional
Cultural
What are Erikson’s eight life stages?
Infancy: trust vs basic mistrust
Early childhood: autonomy vs shame and doubt
Late childhood: initiative vs guilt
Early adolescence: industry vs inferiority
Adolescence: identity vs role confusion
Early adulthood: intimacy vs isolation
Middle adulthood: generativity vs stagnation
Maturity: ego integrity vs despair
What are the aspects of a nursing assessment?
Components: subjective data, objective data
Function: Description of person’s health status
Structure: Organization of interdependent parts describing health, function or patterns of behavior that reflect the whole individual and environment
Process: interview, observation, and examination
Format: Systematic but flexible; individualized to each person, nurse, and situation
Goal: Identification of areas of strengths, imitations, alterations, responses to alterations and therapies, and risks
Which statement supports the philosophical foundation of Gordon’s functional health patterns?
Promotes outcomes that improve health and well-being
Which influence controls the nutritional intake for a family, according to Gordon’s individual-environmental pattern?
Although the intake of an individual is influenced by factors such as preferences and ability to consume food, the person responsible for obtaining and serving the food controls the nutritional intake for a family.
Which statement describes the use of functional focus by the nurse to understand a person’s health status?
Determines effect of performance level on lifestyle
Which statement describes the role of nursing in health promotion initiative?
Nurses are an integral part of initiatives to promote health and prevent disease
Which statement describing Erikson’s theory of development is accurate?
Individuals outside the normative group may be excluded
Which statement describes a function of Healthy People?
Provides a framework for prevention
