NURSING MS FNP 590 Health promotion week 1 DB
Health promotion
Week 1
Week 1: Discussion Question 1 - Foundations of Health Promotion
Discussion Topic
Points: 20 | Due Date: Week 1, Day 3 & 7 | CLO: 1 | Grade Category:
Discussions
Discussion Prompt
Exploring the concepts of health: Why is the way an individual defines health
and health problems important? What are the implications for advance practice
nurses? Which theoretical model of health is of particularly interest to you?
Why?
A person is considered healthy from the definition of health by the World Health
Organization (WHO) if he or she has complete wellbeing. Determining a person as healthy or not
based on wellbeing needs to take a person’s perspective of his or her own quality of life rather
than disease status. This allows us to address unique health issues in a patient. When patients and
their healthcare workers listen and communicate openly with each other, a shared understanding
and therapeutic working relationship develop which improve decision-making and the quality-of-
care patients receive (Walters, 2016). NPs’ understanding of their patients’ definition of health
based on their healthcare beliefs, values, and preferences is an essential feature of patient-
centered care. The implications to practice are reflected in the succeeding concepts. A key
principle in health behavior systems is that patient’s perceptions about health predicts health
behaviors, e.g., compliance to plan of care, use of healthcare services, and lifestyle modification.
Developing awareness about patient’s health beliefs can help identify gaps between the nurses’
and patients’ understanding of the health situation (Kennedy et al., 2017). This facilitates coming
, up with treatment choices that are more acceptable to patients and are aligned to their needs and
expectations. NPs’ skill in perceiving and understanding patient’s definition of health and their
related beliefs reflects compassion which equates to effective communication and higher quality
of care. Research findings support that shared understanding of health definition, issues, and
expectations between patients and their healthcare team leads to better patient satisfaction,
commitment to plan of care, active participation in decision-making, and better care outcomes.
These concepts pique my interest on the Health Belief Model which posits that
interaction with patients will achieve optimal behavior change by targeting the patients’ health
concepts where health expectations, perceived barriers, benefits, threats, and self-efficacy are
covered. Understanding patients’ perception of health in this model explores the six constructs
that predict health behavior: risk susceptibility, risk severity, benefits to action, barriers to
action, self-efficacy, and cues to action (Jones et al., 2015). These are integrated in the adoption
of health behaviors for health promotion and disease prevention.
References
Jones, C. L., Jensen, J. D., Scherr, C. L., Brown, N. R., Christy, K., & Weaver, J. (2015). The
Health Belief Model as an explanatory framework in communication research: exploring
parallel, serial, and moderated mediation. Health communication, 30(6), pp. 566–576.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2013.873363
Kennedy, B. M., Rehman, M., Johnson, W. D., Magee, M. B., Leonard, R., & Katzmarzyk, P. T.
(2017). Healthcare providers versus patients' understanding of health beliefs and
values. Patient experience journal, 4(3), pp. 29–37.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751953/
Health promotion
Week 1
Week 1: Discussion Question 1 - Foundations of Health Promotion
Discussion Topic
Points: 20 | Due Date: Week 1, Day 3 & 7 | CLO: 1 | Grade Category:
Discussions
Discussion Prompt
Exploring the concepts of health: Why is the way an individual defines health
and health problems important? What are the implications for advance practice
nurses? Which theoretical model of health is of particularly interest to you?
Why?
A person is considered healthy from the definition of health by the World Health
Organization (WHO) if he or she has complete wellbeing. Determining a person as healthy or not
based on wellbeing needs to take a person’s perspective of his or her own quality of life rather
than disease status. This allows us to address unique health issues in a patient. When patients and
their healthcare workers listen and communicate openly with each other, a shared understanding
and therapeutic working relationship develop which improve decision-making and the quality-of-
care patients receive (Walters, 2016). NPs’ understanding of their patients’ definition of health
based on their healthcare beliefs, values, and preferences is an essential feature of patient-
centered care. The implications to practice are reflected in the succeeding concepts. A key
principle in health behavior systems is that patient’s perceptions about health predicts health
behaviors, e.g., compliance to plan of care, use of healthcare services, and lifestyle modification.
Developing awareness about patient’s health beliefs can help identify gaps between the nurses’
and patients’ understanding of the health situation (Kennedy et al., 2017). This facilitates coming
, up with treatment choices that are more acceptable to patients and are aligned to their needs and
expectations. NPs’ skill in perceiving and understanding patient’s definition of health and their
related beliefs reflects compassion which equates to effective communication and higher quality
of care. Research findings support that shared understanding of health definition, issues, and
expectations between patients and their healthcare team leads to better patient satisfaction,
commitment to plan of care, active participation in decision-making, and better care outcomes.
These concepts pique my interest on the Health Belief Model which posits that
interaction with patients will achieve optimal behavior change by targeting the patients’ health
concepts where health expectations, perceived barriers, benefits, threats, and self-efficacy are
covered. Understanding patients’ perception of health in this model explores the six constructs
that predict health behavior: risk susceptibility, risk severity, benefits to action, barriers to
action, self-efficacy, and cues to action (Jones et al., 2015). These are integrated in the adoption
of health behaviors for health promotion and disease prevention.
References
Jones, C. L., Jensen, J. D., Scherr, C. L., Brown, N. R., Christy, K., & Weaver, J. (2015). The
Health Belief Model as an explanatory framework in communication research: exploring
parallel, serial, and moderated mediation. Health communication, 30(6), pp. 566–576.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2013.873363
Kennedy, B. M., Rehman, M., Johnson, W. D., Magee, M. B., Leonard, R., & Katzmarzyk, P. T.
(2017). Healthcare providers versus patients' understanding of health beliefs and
values. Patient experience journal, 4(3), pp. 29–37.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751953/
