Week 2 Collaboration cafe: Holistic Health Promotion

Health promotion models offer meaningful frameworks for application in advanced nursing practice. Consideration of the variables that influence health is essential for effective health promotion. Through a holistic lens, the MSN-prepared nurse can employ health promotion models to engage with others and improve health and well-being.

• Create a short case scenario involving a MSN-prepared nurse providing health promotion and preventive education for a client regarding health concerns involving one of the body systems discussed during this week’s lesson.
• Describe the health promotion model or concepts that you would apply in this situation and why.
• Identify two variables that would influence the health promotional efforts and explain the impact of each.
• Explain how competency in advanced physical assessment, pathophysiology, and pharmacology will facilitate the health promotion process.

Solution: Week 2 Collaboration cafe: Holistic Health Promotion

C.J, an 8-year-patient is brought to the clinic by his mother for follow-up after treatment of strep throat infection. The infection has cleared following 2 weeks of medications but the patient is afraid it may recur. Thus, the NP provides her mother with preventive and health promotion education of self-care practices to prevent future infections. These include maintaining oral hygiene, gargling with salt water, sucking lozenges, frequently taking warm water with honey and lemon, enjoying a steam shower, and staying hydrated.

The health promotion model I would use in this is the health belief model (HBM). This is because this model focuses on the patient practice, compliance, and adaptation of health promotional behavior. Compliance with the self-care practices for the prevention of strep throat from occurring or from worsening can help in health promotion and disease prevention. Using the HBM, we would assess the perceived susceptibility to strep throat, perceived severity, perceived benefits of self-care and preventive practices, and the perceived barriers (Green et al., 2020).

The two factors that would influence health promotion efforts are demographic factors and cues to action (Aqtam & Darawwad, 2018). The specific demographic factor is the patient’s age. Being….Please click the purchase button below to get full answer at $5