Health promotion models include various physical, psychological, social, environmental and economic factors. Review the health promotion models discussed in the lecture and reading. See what other models are available online. 

Over the next few weeks you will be working on a summative community health promotion evaluation. For this project you will assess the needs of a particular community and design a community program for health promotion. You will also develop implementation strategies and intervention methods to address these community needs. Finally you will evaluate the program planning process and revise your project as needed.

This week you will design your project with your chosen theory or model in mind. Although your project presentation will not be due until week 7 you will be building up to that final presentation over the next weeks.

I would like for you to focus on the needs of your community. Write a summary of health needs to identify a population or group in need of health promotion and education. What is the need? Where is there a need? What epidemiologic data have you found on this population? What is the socioeconomically culture of your particular population that you have selected?

Write a 1-2 page summary of your community and population following APA guidelines.

Be creative! You can design a flow chart with 1-2 paragraphs explaining your model.

“The sample for a rigorous qualitative study is not as large as the sample for a rigorous quantitative study. The researcher stops collecting data when enough rich, meaningful data have been obtained to achieve the study aims” (Grove, Burns, & Gray, 2013). “A substantial sample may be required to generate power sufficient to demonstrate significance” (Grove, Burns, & Gray, 2013) for a quantitative study. “Small scale quantitative studies may be less reliable because of the low quantity of data” (Mcleod, 2018)

Qualitative question: How do eating disorder patients with bulimia nervosa perceive cognitive behavioral therapy during their inpatient stay? Moving forward with this research question I would need patients who are in an inpatient setting, ones with bulimia nervosa, and I would perform interviews with those patients. The questions I would ask would include open ended questions allowing the patients to answer anyway they felt and me not persuading them to answer a certain way causing bias in the study.

Quantitative question: In patients with an eating disorder, specifically bulimia nervosa, how does the side effects of the mental illness affect the patients overall health? If I were to move forward with this question I would need to have patients who are diagnosed with an eating disorder, specifically bulimia nervosa. I would look at the research out there currently showing the different side effects on the body that comes from the disease. I could compare those stats with statistics from an inpatient unit on those eating disorder patients. This way I could show what is the current research on the disease and then have real examples to show for the research.

References:

Grove, S. K., Burns, N., & Gray, J. (2013). The practice of nursing research: Appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier/Saunders.

Mcleod, S. (2018, December 05). Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research. Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/qualitative-quantitative.html

 Environment, health, nursing, and person interconnect to comprise the metaparadigm of the nursing discipline (Francis, 2017). As nursing is a profession based upon caring for people, I believe the phenomena of person is most relevant to my clinical practice as an OR nurse. Patients undergoing surgery are unable to observe what occurs during their procedure as they are sedated or receive general anesthesia. Consequently, they rely on their OR nurses to advocate for dignity and safety while in an altered level of consciousness. Patient-centered care is a foundational aspect of my nursing career. I also believe that keeping the person as the focal point when providing nursing care enables nurses to be cognizant of treating patients holistically versus only focusing on diagnoses, symptom management, or pharmacological intervention. Occasionally, I encounter anesthesia providers that do not want to allow a few minutes for the nursing staff to properly clean patients after surgery and I remind them that a clean surgical dressing and gown is essential to patient’s hygiene and well-being.  

      Virginia Henderson was an established author, educator of nursing, and co-creator of a patient-centered curriculum utilized by the National League of Nursing (McEwen & Ellis, 2014). Henderson developed the nursing need theory, which is divided into 14 components that emphasized improving patient independence to promote recovery after hospitalization (Ahtisham & Jacoline, 2015). The elements of the nursing need theory provide a holistic nursing approach that encompasses the mental, physical, social, and spiritual aspects of patients. 

      Faye Abdellah was a nursing theorist that presented a patient-focused approach that also integrated using nursing diagnoses into the nursing discipline. Abdellah along with colleagues, created a listing of 21 nursing problems that are equally divided into patient problems and nursing skills during a period were nursing diagnoses were not considered appropriate for nurses (McEwen & Ellis, 2014). Abdellah’s 21 nursing problems are subcategorized into emotional, physiological, social needs of patients along with nurse-patient relationships and patient care.  

Carmetrice Brock 

References 

Ahtisham, Y., & Jacoline, S. (2015). Integrating nursing theory and process into practice;

Virginia’s Henderson need theory. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 8(2), 443

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Francis, I. (2017). Nursing informatics and the metaparadigms of nursing. Online Journal of

Nursing Informatics, 21(1). Retrieved from https://www.himss.org/library/nursing

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McEwen, M., & Wills, E. (2014). Grand nursing theories based on human needs. In Theoretical

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Review the following case study and answer the questions that are provided. Provide complete and detailed responses to each question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. 

Sarah Vaughan is a 34-year-old accountant, who is married with no children. She was recently diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) following a history of recurrent fevers, easily bruised skin, and a general feeling of lethargy and weakness. Diagnosis was confirmed by blood tests and a bone marrow biopsy, which Mrs. Vaughan found rather unpleasant. Mrs. Vaughan has been advised that she will undergo treatment in three stages. One stage includes total body irradiation, after which she will have to avoid going out in the sun for several months. 

1. Mrs. Vaughan is slightly unusual in presenting with ALL. Which adult patient groups are most likely to develop ALL? 
2. What are the three stages of treatment for ALL? 
3. What is total body irradiation, why is it carried out, and why will Mrs. Vaughan need to avoid direct sunlight afterwards? 
4. Mrs. Vaughan is of child-bearing age. What should she be told about her fertility now and in the future? 

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