Objective:Demonstrate the ability to incorporate the dimensions of person, nursing and environment to promote health in a variety of nursing situations. Health Promotion Teaching Project In our Health Promotion class this semester, we were assigned a teaching project that addressed one of Healthy People 2010’s objectives. We were instructed to create a teaching plan for a target group, implement that teaching plan and have the audience evaluate how we did. My partner and I chose to address substance abuse. Because we both remember this being a prominent issue in our high schools, we decided that we wanted to implement our teaching plan in a high school class. We presented our information in a variety of ways to encompass more than one learning strategy. Our main visual aid was a PowerPoint, and we started off with a quiz to assess the students’ current knowledge of drugs. We then talked about addiction and how it is manifested physiologically as well as psychologically, and then gave short descriptions and risks associated with the five most commonly abused drugs at their high school. The health teacher we were working with had informed us prior to the presentation that alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, prescription drugs and oxycotton were the most popular drugs right now. After talking about these drugs, we did an interactive group activity about how to say “no” when offered drugs. To sum up the presentation, we talked about resources available to addicts and concerned friends, and concluded with the revealing of the answers from the opening quiz. We adapted our nursing education and planning to an appropriate implementation for a teenage audience in a health course setting. This project taught us to be aware of our audience and setting before planning a health promotion project because the way in which the information is received will dictate its effectiveness. |
 Health Promotion with Heart Failure Client In working closely with Multicare and our Health
Promotion and Assessment professors, I have also been able to begin
implementing a health promotion plan with my heart failure client. My home
visit was extremely helpful because it allowed me to incorporate my client as a
person, her living environment and my nursing education to teach her about why her doctor has her on a diet, fluid-restriction and has been encouraging her to
exercise. We came up with some less overwhelming short-term goals that she
can begin making progress toward. |