Nursing Community

Health Promotion and Wellness.

Health education in the Community.

Community and group communication.

Read chapter 14, 15 and 18 of the class textbook and review the attached Power Point presentation.  Once done answer the following questions;

1.  How the different topics/health issues can be addressed through both professional health promotion and personal health promotion. What is the difference in the approach? How does each approach contribute to the desired effect? 

2.  Should health insurance companies cover services that are purely for health promotion purposes? Why or why not? What about employers? What are the pros and cons of this type of coverage?

3.  What do you think about the role integrating nursing with faith? Is this something you feel is appropriate? When is it appropriate? What types of settings do you feel this would work best in? Do you feel  nurses should integrate faith in their nursing practice? Why or why not and how?

4.  Have you been a part of a group in which corruption of leadership has occurred? Do you feel it is unavoidable? How did you feel in that particular group? 

As stated in the class syllabus present your assignment in an APA format word document Arial 12 font attached to the forum in the discussion board title “Week 4 discussion questions”.  A minimum of 2 evidence based references no older than 5 years old are required besides the class textbook and two replies to any of your peers sustained with the proper references.  A minimum of 500 words without count the first and last page are required.

Chapter 14
Health Promotion and Wellness

Basic Concepts of
Health and Health Promotion
Definitions of health and wellness
Levels of prevention
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Health-promoting behaviors

Selected Definitions of
Health Promotion and Wellness
Professional health promotion:
Organized actions or efforts that enhance, support, or promote the wellbeing or health of individuals, families, groups, communities, or societies
Personal health promotion:
Attain and maintain highest state of wellness, overall fitness, and self-actualization

Selected Definitions of
Health Promotion and Wellness (cont.)
High-level wellness:
An integrated method of functioning that is oriented toward maximizing the potential of which the individual is capable
Wellness is a state of being.
Health promotion is how one gets there.

Community Health
Promotion and Wellness
Communities can be defined within geographic boundaries or as population groups with special needs or interests.
Usually have systems in place, such as planning commissions or committees to identify what is high-level wellness for that group.

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Wellness
Changes in societal expectations
Shifting sands of the healthcare delivery system
U.S. government initiatives
Public–private partnerships
Growing consumerism and emphasis on self-care

Holistic Wellness:
Self-Inventory of Personal Wellness Using the Medicine Model
Medicine wheel: sacred symbol to almost all Native American tribes
Spokes are defined as follows:
Physical wellness
Vocational wellness
Psychological wellness
Social wellness
Emotional wellness
Environmental wellness
Spiritual wellness

The 4+ Model of Wellness
Two layers, much like transparent plastic overlays
Four domains of inner self:
Intellectual
Physical
Emotional
Spiritual (or spirit)

Chapter 15
Health Ministries: Health and Faith Communities

Development of Health Ministries
History of ministering: hospitals, hospitality, and religious communities
Nightingale’s legacy: relationship of nursing to early models
Philosophical underpinnings

Health Ministry in Action
The faith community
Models of health ministry
Congregational health partnership
Structure of health ministries
Assets mapping

Relationship Between Community Health Nursing and Faith Communities
Parish nursing
Activities of parish nursing
Missionary nursing
Roles and practice of missionary nurses

Missionary Nursing
Roles
Practices
Clinical examples

Spirituality and Religion
Differences and similarities
Population-focused spiritual care
Barriers to providing spiritual care
Morals, ethics, and spirituality in health care
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and spirituality
Praying and rituals with patient populations

Chapter 18
Community and Group Communication

Characteristics of Effective Groups
Collective identity
Shared purpose
Communication
Open communication
Group norms
Participation
Shared leadership
Cohesion
Shared decision making
Conflict management
Problem solving

Stages of Group Development
Group formation
Group initiation
Group expansion
Group membership
Group dissolution
Group stages and formation
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing

Group Functions
Group tasks
Internal maintenance tasks
Goal-attainment tasks
Roles of group members
Group maintenance roles
Gatekeeper
Encourager
Conflict manager
Standard setter/tester

Group Functions (cont.)
Goal-attainment roles
Initiator
Opinion and information seeker/giver
Clarification/elaboration builder
Summarizer
Decision-making facilitator
Consensus builder

Group Functions (cont.)
Groups as change agents
Empowerment
Concepts related to change
Lewin
Change occurs in stages

Types of Groups
Educational/learning groups
Support groups
Self-help groups
Therapy groups
Task groups
Focus groups
Coalitions

Working with Groups
Group leadership
Participatory leadership (democratic)
Authoritarian leadership (autocratic)
Evaluating groups
Process evaluation
Impact evaluation
Outcome evaluation