N3352 Assignment Module 2-1 Health Promotion

Overview: Health promotion and the wellness connection

This information will be included in your Assignment Module 5-1 Family Health Assessment. Please use your interview family for this assignment

Health Promotion and maintaining family wellness is beyond preventing illness. Love (2010) states wellness is a state of optimal health to which each of us can aim regardless of age, physical limitation, & income level.N3352 Assignment Module 2-1 Health Promotion

Instructions:

  1. Identify areas needing intervention by using the using the modified Love to Live Well Assessment below to highlight suggestions you may make for your interview family.
  2. Use your interview family and identify areas for making health and wellness promotion.
  3. Describe these recommendations for health promotion in detail.

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Interventions

Using the using the modified Love to Live Well Assessment below, identify and elaborate on areas your interview family may need health promotion or wellness interventions. Write a minimum of 200 words in two or three paragraphs for this assignment. APA is not required. If you cite sources please add references per APA 7th edition. You may use this document or a separate paper to complete this assignment.

  1. Describe your overall recommendations for health promotion or wellness interventions for your interview family. Please list two or more interventions in comprehensive detail.

Generally, the family interviewed by the author   for this assignment is young and healthy. However, the author identified specific knowledge gaps that should be addressed. The most significant concern was that the mother/wife is a chronic smoker. The identification of this issue presented a platform to discuss the essence of smoking related harms versus smoking cessation. To address this issue, the author suggests the need to initiate the patient in a smoking cessation program as well as psychotherapy, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).As suggested by Wadgave & Nagesh (2016), the most effective smoking cessation method will be nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) which includes nicotine patches, nicotine gum among others. Psychotherapy (CBT) is also an important intervention since it helps to restructure and change the thought processes of patients and promotes learning of new behavior (Martínez-Vispo et al, 2019).N3352 Assignment Module 2-1 Health Promotion

  1. Create a concise patient teaching plan for communicating and educating the Health Promotion/Wellness recommendations/interventions to your interview family? What will you say? How will you provide the information? For example, will you use handouts or a video? Will you speak to the whole family or just certain members?
  • The author’s plan is to educate all members in this family about tobacco smoking, smoking related harms, and smoking cessation. The decision to educate all family members was influenced by the fact that all members are at a high risk of tobacco related harms from secondary smoke. Besides, the family had two teenagers, a period with a higher risk of smoking. The author will also educate all family members on the need to undergo annual health checkups. During the education sessions, specific issues that will be addressed include; identifying the triggers that influenced the mother to start smoking, identifying and addressing specific smoking-related knowledge gaps for each family member. The author will use handouts and visual aids to explain the short term and long term effects of tobacco smoking. To obtain more resources, it will be important to direct patients to specific websites such as the American Cancer Society, the COPD foundation, and the CDC website. Effective interventions that the author can provide include; encouraging the mother to make a conscious decision of quitting tobacco smoking, helping her to identify and eliminate potential smoking reminders and triggers, assisting the client to enroll for NRT, and schedule an appointment   with a primary care physician.
  • The author also plans to find out the major barriers to accessing care regularly, since the family has adequate income from good jobs that provide full insurance coverage. Since wellness visits incur not costs, all family members should undergo regular wellness visits. It will however be necessary to explain that wellness visits are part of preventative medicine and the best way to prevent chronic illnesses such as hypertension, type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and cardiovascular illnesses. Preventative medicine also helps in the early identification and intervention of chronic illnesses such as cancers.
  1. Briefly reflect on this experience and the lesson you have learned.

This experience has been a learning point on the essence of paying attention to individual health. It is easier for healthcare providers, particularly nurses, to identify healthcare needs and provide care to patients while neglecting oneself. Nurses often educate patients on health promotion and disease prevention strategies such as regular physical activity, dietary modification quitting or reducing alcohol intake, and quitting smoking. However, they rarely apply the same knowledge to influence outcomes of their own health. Henceforth, I will be more conscious of my health and that of close family members. Besides, I will make decisions that impact positively and benefit the family’s overall well-being.N3352 Assignment Module 2-1 Health Promotion

Health Promotion and Wellness Assessment

Modified from the Love to Live Well Assessment

 Place a mark for each item to indicate that it is an area your interview family may need an intervention for Health Promotion and Wellness

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Physical
  ✓ proper use of medical self care & the medical system ✓  personal responsibility to safely build physical strength, flexibility   generally feel good most of the time   ability to care for oneself without assistance

ability to move naturally throughout the day without prolonged pain   body is in good overall condition
Emotional
  ✓ ability to cope with stress   ability to live & work independently but realize the value of seeking others’ support & assistance   generally enthusiastic about self & life   awareness & acceptance of one’s feelings   able to form interdependent relationships (mutual trust, commitment, & respect)   ability to realistically assess one’s limitations   ability to identify obstacles to emotional stability   ability to understand monitor one’s own reactions   ability to express & positively manage feelings effectively
Intellectual
  ability to identify problems, solve problems, & direct behavior   knowledge increased through reading books, newspapers, & magazines as a critical consumer of information   plenty of creative, mental stimulation by challenging the mind
Spiritual
  deep appreciation for depth & expanse of life   living in a way consistent with our values & beliefs while being tolerant to the beliefs of others;   caring for others   capacity for love & forgiveness

actions become consistent with values & beliefs to arrive at a “worldview”   peace & harmony within values   sense of meaning & purpose to life   ability to focus on positive aspects of life
Social
  embraces interdependence between others & nature   make willful choices to enhance personal relationships & friendships   actively seek ways to preserve beauty & balance in nature   live in harmony with others (not the same as always giving in)   contribution to community & environment to build a better place to live   more focused on the greater good   awareness of the impact one person can make on many environments (work, home, community, etc.)N3352 Assignment Module 2-1 Health Promotion
Occupational (Financial)
  ✓personal satisfaction through & attitude about work   recognition & acknowledgement from peers & managers for a job well done   level of happiness, fulfillment, & enrichment gained through life’s work   job draws on passion & interests   ✓choice of profession, job satisfaction, career ambitions, & personal performance   feel connection to others at the workplace

Modified from Love to live well Assessment created by Anna Love (Founder, Love to Live Well), 2010

References

Martínez-Vispo, C., Rodríguez-Cano, R., López-Durán, A., Senra, C., Fernández Del Río, E., & Becoña, E. (2019). Cognitive-behavioral treatment with behavioral activation for smoking cessation: Randomized controlled trial. PloS one, 14(4), e0214252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214252

Wadgave, U., & Nagesh, L. (2016). Nicotine Replacement Therapy: An Overview. International journal of health sciences, 10(3), 425–435. N3352 Assignment Module 2-1 Health Promotion