NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 1 Discussion
Personal Health Promotion
In starting this course, please start by sharing one or two health promotion activities you have found most helpful personally.
Provide your opinion why the activity works.
You may also discuss this in relation to a patient, or family member if you do not want to share about your own health promotion activities.
As we go through the course, you will explore many different health promotion guidelines, research and evidence based practice protcols.
NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 2 Discussion
Key Health Indicators
State health report cards identify key health indicators related to health outcomes, health behaviors, and quality of health systems. By examining these health indicators and how they might influence the health status of your specific patient population, you will be able to better address health risk behaviors and burdens of illness within your clinical setting.
In this Discussion, review your state’s health report card (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and consider direct and indirect burdens of key health indicators.
Post an explanation of your state’s key health indicators and how these indicators influence health status.
Explain how this relates to what is and what is not covered under Medicare and Medicaid.
Then, explain the direct and indirect burdens of health risk behaviors and disease (i.e., cost, morbidity, premature mortality, etc.).
Finally, explain how policy impacts key health indicators and the burdens of health risk behaviors and disease.
Locate and review your state’s health report card.
Reflect on your state’s statistics and key health indicators, including how they influence health status.
Consider how this relates to what is and is not covered under Medicare and Medicaid.
Think about the direct and indirect burdens of health risk behaviors and disease (i.e., costs, morbidity, premature mortality, etc.).
Consider how policy impacts key health indicators and burdens of health risk behaviors and disease.
NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 3 Discussion
Health Promotion Themes
Per the Pender reading, the National Institute of Nursing Research identifies four themes to establish a scientific base of care and health promotion.
Select one theme.
Explain how research in this area can affect health promotion across the lifespan for a specific group (f.ex. children, the elderly, migrant farm-workers etc. )
NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 4 Discussion
Functional Health
From the Pender reading (p.94), what are Gordon’s focus areas of functional health?
How do nurses utilize those functional health patterns across the lifespan?
How do they impact the nursing diagnosis?
NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 5 Discussion
Social Factors Affecting Wellness
Select an age group (infant, toddler, child, adolescent, young adult, middle age adult or older adult).
What physical changes is this group experiencing?
What are some pathological risks?
Are there social factors affecting their ability to achieve wellness?
What can advanced practice nurses do to promote health in this group?
Access the site, Healthy People Environmental Health. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.What agencies are supporting the National Health Promotion Agenda for environmental health?
Present one agency and its role.
NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 6 Discussion
Stress
Review page 193 in the Pender text.
Complete the “Breathe Away Stress in 8 Steps” activity.
Describe your experience.
NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 7 Discussion
Health Related Cultural Elements
After reading this unit’s assigned chapters, identify a minority population in your community.
Describe health related cultural elements that affect health promotion and planning for this group.
What are some considerations to ensure cultural communication is effective and interventions will be successful?
NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Unit 8 Discussion
Reflection
Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:
Synthesize broad ecological, global and social determinants of health; principles of genetics and genomics; and epidemiologic data to design and deliver evidence based, culturally relevant clinical prevention interventions and strategies. AACN VIII.1
Evaluate the effectiveness of clinical prevention interventions that affect individual and population-based health outcomes using health information technology and data sources. AACN VIII.2.
Design patient-centered and culturally responsive strategies in the delivery of clinical prevention and health promotion interventions and/or services to individuals, families, communities, and aggregates/clinical populations. AACN VIII.3.
Advance equitable and efficient prevention services, and promote effective Population -based health policy through the application of nursing science and other scientific concepts. AACN VIII.4.
Integrate clinical prevention and population health concepts in the development of culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate health education, communication strategies, and interventions. AACN VIII.5.
Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.
For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to professional application.
Provide evidence (citations and references) to support your statements and opinions. All references and citations should in APA format.
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