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2 definitions of health
1. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO 1947)

2. A state of being that people define in relation to their own values, personality, and lifestyle
Assessments in the Health Belief Model
1. Perceived severity of illness
2. Perceived susceptibility to illness
3. Likelihood of action
Definition of illness
A state in which a person’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired
Two types of illness
Acute Illness

Chronic Illness
Prevention level that includes includes health promotion, wellness education programs, immunizations, hearing protection in occupational settings, training to develop good body mechanics, health screening for prostate, breast, colon cancer. Before illness occurs
Primary prevention
Prevention level found in the home, health care facility, or SNF.  Includes diagnosing illness and restoring health.
Secondary prevention
Prevention level where clients achieve as high a level of functioning as possible. rehab and maintenance after disability or during chronic illness.
Tertiary prevention
The following are leading health indicators from what government initiative?
Physical Activity, Overweight and Obesity, Tobacco Use, Substance Abuse, Responsible Sexual Behavior, Mental Health, Injury and Violence, Environmental Quality, Immunization, Access to Health Care 
Healthy People 2010
Helps maintain or enhance present level of health. Ex. Exercise program, good nutrition
Health Promotion
Teaches people to care for themselves in a healthy way
Ex. Stress mgmt program
Wellness
Protects clients from potential or actual threats to health
Ex. Immunization
Illness prevention
5 internal variables that influence health beliefs
Developmental
Intellectual
Perception of function
Emotional
Spiritual
Who developed the health belief model?
Becker and Miriam.
External variables in the Health Belief model
Family practices
Socioeconomic Factors
Cultural background
Transtheoretical model 5 stages of change
Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation for Action, Action, Maintenance
Model that includes the 5 stages of change
Prochaska's Transtheoretical Change Model
Expressions of pain vary socially, traditional _____________ may be very verbal and expressive, while ____________ are more stoic.
Puerto Ricans; Filipinos
Two cultures, that believe a child is one year at birth
Vietnamese and Korean Cultures
A right of passage valued by all cultures. Promotes continuity of family and community.
Pregnancy
Significant social markers of changes in a persons life
Rights of passage
Non westerners see this as period of vulnerability for the mother, with specific dietary and physical needs
Postpartum period
A systematic and comprehensive examination of the cultural care values, beliefs, and practices of individuals, families, and communities. Nurse Gathers information to provide culturally competent care
Cultural Assessment
Care that fits the person’s valued life patterns and set of meanings.
Requires specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Culturally Congruent Care
Self-examination and in-depth exploration of one's own cultural background. Involves the recognition of one's biases, prejudices, and assumptions about individuals who are different.
Cultural awareness
The ability of the nurse to bridge cultural gaps in caring, work with cultural differences and enable families to achieve meaningful and supportive caring.
Cultural competency
Leinenger's theory
Theory of Transcultural caring
Theory that states that caring is an essential human need that helps an individual or group improve a human condition and helps to protect, develop, nurture, and sustain people
Lienengers Theory of Transcultural Caring
Model of caring that:
•Promotes healing and wholeness
•Rejects the disease orientation to health care
•Places care before cure
•Emphasizes the nurse-client relationship
Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring
Defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to a valued other, toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility
Swanson’s Theory of Caring
Swanson's 5 caring processes
Knowing
being with
doing for
enabling
maintaining belief
Concerned with the relationship between the client and nurse, places the nurse as the client’s advocate, sees client as a unique being
Ethic of Care
An example of contact touch
Physical touch such as hand holding
An example of noncontact touch
Eye contact
An example of protective touch
Catching a falling client
Example of task oriented touch
Touch during proceedures. Ex. Transfers
Caring process of striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other
Knowing
Subdimensions:
Avoiding assumptions
Centering care on the one cared for
Assessing thoroughly
Engaging the self or both
Caring process that involves being emotionally present for the other
Being with
Subdimensions:
Being there
Conveying ability
Sharing feelings
Not burdening
The caring process of doing for the other what he or she would do for the self if it were at all possible
Doing for
Subdimensions:
Comfortin
Anticipating
Performing skillfully
Protecting
Preserving dignity
Caring process defined as sustaining faith in the other's capacity to get through an event or transition and face the future with meaning
Maintaining belief
Subdimensions
Believing in/holding in esteem
Maintaining a hope-filled attitude
Offering realistic optimism
"Going the distance"
Caring process that facilitates the other's passage through life transitions (birth, death, etc.) and unfamiliar events
Enabling
Subdimensions:
Informing/explaining
Supporting/allowing
Focusing
Develops over time and is the core process of clinical decision making
Knowing the client
3 aspects of knowing the client
–Responses to therapy, routines, and habits
–Coping resources
–Physical capacities and endurance
3 contemporary challenges to providing care
•Trend toward task-oriented care
•Technology
•Nurse-to-client ratios
Creates trust, opens lines of communication, creates a mutual relationship
Listening
A model of care that occurs outside of traditional health care facilities, with unique challenges
Community-Based Health Care
Goals of this initiative are to increase life expectancy and quality of healthcare through improved access
Healthy People Innitiative
Vulnerable populations in community healthcare
–Immigrants
–Poor and homeless
–Abused
–Substance abusers
–Mentally ill
–Older adults
3 areas of community assessment
1. Structure
2. Population
3. Social systems
Type of greif that peaks by 6 months after the loss, then gradually subsides
Normal grief
Chronic grief that is, delayed, excessive, exaggerated, concomitant. More frequent in cases of violent or unexpected death, or when relationsip with deceased was unresolved
Complicated grief
Grief that is felt before a loss, common with degenerative disease
Anticipatory grief
Grief over a non-sanctioned loss, such as the loss of a pet or gay partner
Disenfranchised grief
Kübler-Ross’s Stages of Dying
–Denial
–Anger
–Bargaining
–Depression
–Acceptance
Who is eligible for hospice care?
People with a diagnosed life expectancy of 6 months or less
Requirement for home hospice care
Must have a 24/7 caregiver in the home.
Model for the care of the terminally ill that is family centered. Acceptance into a program based on need, rather than ability to pay.
Hospice model of care
Common hospice settings
Home, hospital, LTC facility
Hospice resources include
Social workers, Physicians, Nurses, Therapists, Pastoral, Respite, Pain management, Durable medical equipment, Access to available hospital and nursing home beds
This list, published in the "American Journal of Nursing," can be used as a guideline for those who are dying and who care for a loved one who is dying.
The Dying Patient's Bill of Rights
4 categories of health risk factors
1. Genetic and physiological
2. Age
3. Environment
4. Lifestyle
Risk Factor Modification and Changing Health Behaviors include what two steps?
1. Identify risk factors in health promotion, wellness education, and illness prevention.

2. Implement risk modification, health promotion, or illness prevention activities.
3 guidelines for assessing members of vulnerable populations and groups
1. Setting the stage
2. Nursing history of an individual or family
3. Physical examination or home assessment
The overall goal of this association is to address the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems in which they work.
QSEN
What does KSA stand for?
Knowledge, Skills, Attitude
6 QSEN KSAs
Patient-centered Care
Teamwork and Collaboration
Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
Quality Improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
The nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Evaluates and accredits more than 18,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States
The Joint Commission
Association with the 21 competencies that focuses on public service, caring for health communities and ethical behaviors
Pew Health Professions Comission
Area of community assessment that might include the following: geographical boundies, name of neighborhood,housing, transportation, sanitation
Structure
Area of community assessment that might include the following: growth trends, age distribution, sex distribution, predominant cultural and religous groups, education levels
Population
Area of community assessment that might include the following: schools, clinics, hospitals, government, welfare, health
Social systems
A woman says to her doctor, "If you could just keep me healthy past Christmas, I'll accept whatever else comes." What stage of grief is she experiencing.
Bargaining
A man who is in end stage renal failure appears sad and is voicing regrets about never taking his relationship with his daughter. What stage of grief is he experiencing?
Depression
When the hospice worker contacts Karen about end-care for her daughter, who has a recently diagnosed life-expectancy of 4 months, she tells the worker that her daughter is not dying, and that they will not be needing hospice care. What stage of grief is Karen experiencing?
Denial
Mr Green, who has end-stage COPD, has become very short tempered with his home care nurse and yelled at her when she was helping him dress yesterday. What sage of grief might Mr. Green be experiencing?
Anger
Your client seems to be enjoying visits from her family and sharing life stories with you. She is selecting songs for her memorial service and asks for your opinion. What stage of grief is your client experiencing?
Acceptance
Name three collectivist cultures, where traditional adults may rely upon family and kin to make decision and provide care.
Hispanics, Africans, Asians
Practice folk remedies such as coining, cupping, pinching and burning for pain relief and removal of bad wind
Southeast Asian Cultures
Use cupping for respiratory ailments
Easter European Cultures
This culture views pregnancy as a hot state and encourage cold foods such as milk, yougurt and sour fruits and vegatables
Hindus
A woman's infertility could be grounds for divorce in this culture.
Arab
A couple from this culture may refuse prenatal testing, believing the outcome of the pregnancy is God's will.
Filipino
Women for these cultures may refuse to be examined by a male healthcare provider out of modesty.
Arab cultures
Religions that prohibit the presence of males in the delivery room
Muslims, Hindus, Orthodox Jews
Traditional Arabs can be _______ physically and verbally expressive when experiencing pain.
more
Parents from this culture keep the newborn inside the home until baptism to ensure the baby's health and protection
Catholic Filipino
In non-Western cultures, the postpartum period is much ________ than in Western cultures.
Longer
Mother's from non-Western cultures may refuse a ___________ after birth and ask for a ___________ to restore balance.
shower, sponge bath
To restore balance after giving birth, _____________ mothers prefer soups, rice, wine and eggs while __________ mothers opt for pistachios and eggs.
Chinese, Iranian
These cultures use an abdominal binder to prevent air from entering the woman's uterus and to promote healing
Filipino, Mexican, Pacific Islanders
Bleeding is associated with polution in these cultures. A woman goes into a ritual bath after bleeding stops before resuming relations with her husband.
Orthodox Jewish, Islamic, Hindu
In these cultures, the woman will not resume sexual relations with the husband until the baby is weaned
African cultures, such as Ghana and Sierra Leone
In these cultures, dying is a step toward rebirth. Care of the dying focuses on providing a good death.
Hindu and Buddhist
A dying male from this culture may refuse medication and nourishment to focus his energy on the spiritual aspects of moving to the next cycle
Hindu
Devout members of this culture may refuse autopsy or organ donation for fear of desecrating the dead.
Muslims
White is the symbolic color of grief in this culture.
Hindu
In this culture, a person may be paid to lead open grieving. Loud crying and screaming is common.
Korean
Cultural healers from these groups include herbalists, acupuncturists, fortune tellers and shaman
Chinese and Southeast Asians
The culture uses Ayurvedic practitioners
Asian Indians
Old Lady, granny midwife, spiritualist and Voodoo practitioners (Hougan, Mambo) are types of healers in which culture?
African American
Healers from this culture include Pareteras (Lay midwives), Yerbro (Herbalist), Sabador (bonesetter), Espiritista (spiritualist)
Rituals include Curandero and Santero
Hispanic
In this stage of health behavior change, the client will not be interested in information about the behavior and may be abusive whe confronted with information.
Precontemplation
In this stage of health behavior change, the client may be ambivalent but he is more likely to accept information. He is developing belief in the value of change.
Contemplation
During this stage of health behavior change, the client believes the advanttagesnof change outweigh the disadvantages. May neednassistance planning change.
Preparation for Action
In this stage of health behavior change, your client is engaged in strategies to change behavior. Can last up to 6 months. You should help client identify barriers and facilitators of change.
Action
This stage of health behavior change begins 6 months after action has started and lasts indefinitely.
Maintenance
5 types of loss
–Necessary
–Maturational
–Situational
–Actual
–Perceived
5 Life transitions common to all cultures
•Rights of passage
•Pregnancy
•Childbirth
•Newborn
•Postpartum period
•Grief and loss
3 guidelines for cultural assessment
1. Ask open ended questions
2. ask for details
3. be sensitive
Caring Beliefs and Practices
•Respect
•Concern
•Attention to details
•Active listening
•Comfort measures
•Presence
• Understanding
Roles of the community based nurse
–Caregiver
–Case manager
–Change agent
–Client advocate
–Collaborator
–Counselor
–Educator
3 examples of nurse sensitive outcomes
Pressure ulcers, UTIs and falls
Nursing discipline that requires an understanding ot the needs of a population who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common. (high risk infants, older adults, cultural group)
Public health nursing
Nursing practice in the community with primary focus on the health of individuals, families and groups in a community
Community health nursing