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Health Promotion. Larry Santiago, MSN, RN. Health Care Delivery and Nursing Practice. Nursing is defined as the “diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health and illness”. Health Care Delivery and Nursing Practice 2.
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Health Promotion Larry Santiago, MSN, RN
Health Care Delivery and Nursing Practice • Nursing is defined as the “diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health and illness”.
Health Care Delivery and Nursing Practice 2 • Health is defined as a “state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being”.
Health Care Delivery and Nursing Practice 3 • Wellness “includes a conscious and deliberate approach to an advanced state of physical, psychological, and spiritual health”.
Roles of the Nurse Practitioner Role Leadership Role
Roles of the Nurse 2 • Research Role
Health Education • Goal of patient education is to encourage people to adhere to therapeutic regimens
Health Education 2 • Teaching techniques and methods enhance learning
Health Education 3 • Learning readiness • Learning environment
Health Education 4 • People with disabilities • Gerontologic considerations
Health Promotion • Health Promotion encourages people to achieve as high a level of wellness as possible
Health Promotion 2 • Health Promotion principles include: self-responsibility, nutrition,stress management and exercise
Chronic Illness Larry Santiago, MSN, RN
Chronic Conditions • Medical conditions or health problems with associated symptoms or disabilities that require long-term management
Chronic Conditions 2 • Occur in every age group • Major and minor activity limitations • Expensive
Phases of Chronic Illness • 1) Pretrajectory phase – person is at risk for developing a chronic condition because of genetic factors or lifestyle behaviors that increase susceptibility to chronic illness
Phases of Chronic Illness 2 • 2) Trajectory phase – characterized by the onset of symptoms or disability associated with a chronic condition
Phases of Chronic Illness 3 • 3) Stable phase – indicates that symptoms and disability are being managed adequately
Phases of Chronic Illness 4 • 4) Unstable phase – characterized by exacerbation of illness symptoms, development of complications, or reactivation of an illness in remission
Phases of Chronic Illness 5 • 5) Acute phase – characterized by sudden onset of severe or unrelieved symptoms that require hospitalization
Phases of Chronic Illness 6 • Crisis phase – characterized by a critical or life-threatening situation that requires emergency treatment or care
Phases of Chronic Illness 7 • Comeback phase – recovery after an acute period • Downward phase – marks the worsening of a condition • Dying phase – characterized by the gradual or rapid decline despite efforts to halt the disorder
Nursing Management • Identify trajectory phase • - assess the patient to determine the specific phase
Nursing Management 2 • Establish goals – should be a collaborative effort with the patient, family, and nurse working together
Nursing Management 3 • 3) Establish a plan to achieve desired outcomes • 4) Identify factors that facilitate or hinder attainment of goals
Nursing Management 4 • 5) Implementing Interventions • 6) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interventions
End-of-Life Care Larry Santiago, MSN, RN
Death and Dying • Technology has prolonged life
Death and Dying 2 • Sociocultural Context
End of Life Care • Palliative Care
End of Life Care 2 • Hospice Care
Advance Directives • Written documents that allow the individual of sound mind to document preferences regarding end-of-life care • Most common types: • Living will • Durable power of attorney for health care
Health Care of the Older Adult Larry Santiago, MSN, RN
Health Care of the Older Adult • Gerontology is the study of the aging process
Health Care of the Older Adult 2 • Demographics of Aging
Health Care of the Older Adult 3 • Health Care Costs of Aging
Health Care of the Older Adult 4 • Ageism is prejudice or discrimination against older adults
Age Related Changes • Physical
Age Related Changes 2 • Psychosocial
Age Related Changes 3 • Cognitive
Age Related Changes 4 • Environmental
Age Related Changes 5 • Pharmacologic
Living Arrangements • Own home • Family home • Continuing Care Retirement Communities • Long term care
Geriatric Syndromes • Impaired Mobility • Urinary Incontinence • Immunodeficiency • Depression • Delirium • Dementia
Perspectives in Transcultural Nursing Larry Santiago, MSN,RN
Culture • Culture involves learned and transmitted knowledge about values, beliefs, rules of behavior, and lifestyle practices that guide groups in their thinking and actions
Culture 2 • Subcultures and minorities
Transcultural Nursing • Focus on cultural care values, beliefs, and practices of individuals from a particular culture (Giger & Davidhizar, 1999)