Discussion question 1Global Health PromotionStep 1 Research
a health promotion program or initiative that you can operating in
another country, or by an international organization, such as the World
Health Organization. Find a similar initiative operating somewhere in
the United States. Step 2 Answer the following prompts:· In your opinion, what topic has seen the most important progress in health worldwide over the last 50 years?·
Is the information presented in both initiatives the same or are there
differences (beyond language). If differences are seen, what are they?
Would you expect the initiative to be more or less effective if the
format and information was similar or different?·
Many people around the word believe that illness is caused by factors
other than disease as defined by the biomedical model. How could a
health promotion initiative be adapted to address this belief?Step 3 Read other students’ posts and respond to at least two of them ·
Your initial post should be 2-3 paragraphs long and follow the
requirements outlined in the discussion rubric. Please add to the
discussion in your peer responses with informative responses, instead of
posts similar to “great idea! I really agree with you.” The initial
post and the peer responses have different deadlines. Make sure that
your discussion adheres to these deadlines.·
APA guidelines and plagiarism prevention matter in discussion posts
just like with other scholarly assignments. Cite all references
appropriately using APA format.Discussion response 1 PhilethaHealth promotion programsHealth promotion programs aim to empower and engage individuals and
communities in choosing healthy lifestyle behaviors and make appropriate
changes that help in reducing the risk of developing diseases (Rural
Health Information Hub, 2018). Over the last 50 years, obesity and
chronic diseases have been a significant problem for many people
worldwide, making it one of the most important topics that have seen
significant progress. As a result, many international health promotion
initiatives such as the United Nations Children’s Fund and US-based
initiatives such as the Center for Disease Control Program and
prevention (CDC) have been established. These initiatives aim to improve
policies and environmental factors influencing health (UNIVERSITY AT
ALBANY, 2020). Further, both initiatives offer similar information
regarding the measures that people need to take to reduce the burden of
obesity and other chronic diseases.However, if the initiatives’ information were different, it would be
less effective, and many people would probably be confused about what
advice to follow (UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, 2020). This is because health
issues are similar worldwide, and measures used to prevent chronic
diseases and obesity are the same. Such measures include exercising,
eating healthy, and avoiding tobacco. Typically, human behaviors and
beliefs play a significant role in maintaining their health. Still,
health promotion initiatives can address such beliefs by adopting a
holistic approach that involves empowering individuals and communities
to take the right actions for their health. Also, they can foster
leadership for public health, create sustainable health systems, and
promote intersectoral actions to build healthy public policies in all
sectors. Also, it should include a set-based approach to promote health
in certain settings, such as residential areas, schools, hospitals, and
workplaces (Kumar & Preetha, 2012). Health promotion is important to
all individuals and, if efficiently utilized, will lead to positive
outcomes.ReferencesKumar, S., & Preetha, G. (2012). Health promotion: An effective tool for global health. Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 37(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.94009 (Links to an external site.)Rural Health Information Hub. (2018, April 30). Defining health promotion and disease prevention – RHIhub toolkit. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/health-promotion/1/definition (Links to an external site.)UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY. (2020). Organizations working in global health. University at Albany – State University of New York. https://www.albany.edu/globalhealth/organizations-working-global-healthDiscussion response 2 Elizabeth Health promotion is the idea or movement to promote individuals to live a healthy lifestyle and make healthy choices. “It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. As a core function of public health, health promotion supports governments, communities and individuals to cope with and address health challenges. This is accomplished by building healthy public policies, creating supportive environments, and strengthening community action and personal skills” (Health Promotion). Smoking cessation is an example of a health promotion that
is relatively standard throughout different countries in the world.
“The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the first
international treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO. It has since
become one of the most rapidly and widely embraced treaties in United
Nations history” (2019). Similarly to the United States, smoking is
banned in almost all indoor places as well as some outdoor areas such as
playgrounds, outside hospitals, and schools. Many countries have
instated similar laws when it comes to smoking. Australia has banned
smoking in vehicles with children and as of January 2018, the U.S has
done the same thus protecting children from second hand smoke. These
bans ultimately protect the citizens of the residing countries and make
it more inconvenient for smokers in the hopes to deter their decisions.ReferencesHealth promotion. (n.d.). Retrieved November 24, 2020, from https://www.who.int/westernpacific/health-topics/health-promotion (Links to an external site.)(2019, March 07). Retrieved November 24, 2020, from https://www.who.int/fctc/cop/about/en/Discussion question 2Telehealth and Nursing Respond to the following question based on this weeks lesson and, if it’s relevant, include your own personal experience Describe at least two ways that telehealth could be used with a particular patient population.
How would telehealth improve the quality of patient care, patient outcomes, and/ or patient satisfaction?
How would telehealth impact nursing practice?
Read other students’ posts and respond to at least two of them. . Discussion response 1 KellyTelehealth can be used in so many ways, and with so many different populations. One population that can benefit from telehealth especially this time of the year is immunocompromised patients. Telehealth can allow them to talk or see their health care provider over the telephone instead of them going to their office to risk catching an illness such as Covid-19. They can also have easy access to their lab results, schedule their appointments, refill requests, and get reminders on when immunizations, and appointments are needed. Using telehealth care improve patients’ outcomes by allowing them easier access to care from the comfort of their own homes. It helps to relieve stress of how they are going to get to the appointments, anxiety about spreading or catching illnesses from the waiting rooms etc. When there are better patient outcomes in health care this in turn leads to increased patient satisfaction. Telehealth can impact nursing practice several different ways, one way is we can continue to educate our patients on their care, medications, dressings, injections etc in the comfort of their own homes without the distractions of call lights, phone calls etc. Also, while the patient is in their own homes it may help them to talk more about their care, or their feelings on their care. They won’t feel as rushed. Discussion response 2 RebeccaTo start with I would like to share my first experience recently with
telehealth from the mom point of view. My older daughter, Sarah, was
diagnosed with Crohn’s disease about a year and a half ago. She has been
receiving infusions of Remicade every eight weeks and it has been like a
miracle. The problem was we had to drive an hour and fifteen minutes to
go to the doctor the morning of the infusion and then drive to the
hospital where the infusion was done. This made the process a whole day
affair and the out of pocket expense was quite a lot! Last month when I
was setting up the appointments, I was informed that the hospital was no
longer going to do Remicade infusions and we would have to set up for
home infusion (which I had been told in the past was not possible).
Sarah’s last infusion was done in the privacy of our home, and instead
of driving to the doctor’s office, we did a telehealth appointment. The
ways in which this improved our quality of care was that all the orders
were not on the paperwork so the infusion nurse was able to get verbal
orders for all the bloodwork needed during the telehealth appointment,
she had him right there. In the hospital we would have had to wait for
the nurse to get ahold of the doctor and wait for the orders so she
would have the correct blood draw. The patient outcome for my daughter
was that of having the comfort of home, food she was familiar with,
staying in her pajamas, much less time consuming, and I was able to do
my homework on my PC in a quiet space. So direct from the source, Sarah,
patient satisfaction was 10/10 and we are so happy that this change has
come about.Ways in which telehealth can impact nursing include, “Greater
healthcare flexibility; not only does telehealth provide flexibility in
term of location, but it also more effectively uses patients’ and
nurses’ time, extended options for patients and nurses; some healthcare
providers are now extending coverage for telehealth … [and] … there has
been an effort to ‘normalize’ telehealth, and more common healthcare
practice; more common and accessible for healthcare providers and their
patients” (Telehealth; Changing, 2020). Other ways in which telehealth
will impact nursing practice are outlined in our lesson this week as,
“home health nurses may use this technology to submit data, images, and
assessments to other members of the health care team to best meet the
patient’s needs. Patient teaching in clinical and nonclinical settings
is dependent on the technology and equipment used for telehealth”
(Telehealth Week 8 lesson, n.d., Topic 2).ReferenceTelehealth: Changing the Future of Nursing Practice. (2020, August 18). https://www.herzing.edu/blog/telehealth-changing-future-nursing-practice.Telehealth. Week 8 Lesson: Telehealth: 20201005-C11 –
HIT420OL.1 – Healthcare Informatics.
https://dcn.instructure.com/courses/32725/pages/week-8-lesson-telehealth?module_item_id=773312.Discussion question 3Evidence-Based Practice in Health Care Delivery Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ posts Step 1 Post a response to the discussion board.Respond to the following prompts and, if it’s relevant, include your own personal experience:Discuss one example of when and how EBP impacted the quality of care delivered in nursing.
How has EBP influenced overall health care delivery?
Step 2 Read and respond to two other students’ posts Read other students’ posts and respond to at least two of them. Use
your personal experience, if it’s relevant, to help support or debate
other students’ posts. If differences of opinion occur, debate the
issues professionally and provide examples to support your opinions.In addition to your original post, be sure to provide a meaningful
response to at least two of your peer’s posts by Friday night at 11:59pm
Mountain Time. Cite any sources in APA format.Discussion response 1For years the gold standard for monitoring patients during moderate sedation was oxygen saturation monitoring (SaO2). The pulse oximetry probe beams light into your capillaries, reads the oxygen molecules attached to the receptors on the hemoglobin protein and sends you a readout in percent saturation. The trouble with this is it may not give you an accurate picture of what is happening this second with your sedated patient. Monitoring the partial pressure of exhaled carbon dioxide (end-tidal CO2 [EtCO2])
gives a more accurate picture of respiratory efficiency during
sedation. If a patient is experiencing hypoventilation you will notice
an increase in EtCO2 before you see a decrease in oxygen
saturation (Ciocirlan, 2016). Therefore, it is surmised that acting on
early capnographic indications of inadequate ventilation would decrease
the incidence of O2 desaturation, near misses, and other adverse events (Holton & Flattery, 2016). Evidence-based practice is key to advancing quality and safety
in health care. To significantly improve the quality of healthcare, we
need to apply evidence-based practice (EBP). Without EBP, healthcare
providers and nurses are at risk for inconsistencies in care that could
seriously affect patient outcomes (Troseth, 2016).References:Ciocirlan, M. (2016, March). Is capnography mandatory during sedation for endoscopy? Endoscopy international open, 4(3), 352-353. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-103681 (Links to an external site.)Holton, J. & Flattery, B. (2016, December). Capnography compared
to pulse oximetry for early detection of respiratory compromise in
non-intubated patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures:
a systematic review protocol. JBI evidence synthesis, 14(12), 38-47. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003220 (Links to an external site.)Troseth, M. (2016, June). Evidence-based practice: The key to advancing quality and safety in health care. Becker’s Hospital Review. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/evidence-based-practice-the-key-to-advancing-quality-and-safety-in-healthcare.htmDiscussion response 2 DonnaEBP impacted the quality of care delivered in nursingEvidence-based practice in nursing is a patient-centered, holistic
approach to patient care. The reason for applying evidence-based
research is to supplement the knowledge and expertise of nurses and
improve patient safety, reduce healthcare costs, support decision-making
for individualized patient care, and generate additional data
(Evidence-Based Practice in Modern Healthcare, 2017). Thus, nurses
utilize research to close the gap between theory and clinical practice.
This method can decrease errors, injuries, and negative patient outcomes
(Evidence-Based Practice in Modern Healthcare, 2017).Infection ControlThe last thing a patient wants when going to a hospital for treatment
is a hospital-acquired infection. Nurses play a key role in preventing
illness before it happens by adhering to evidence-based
infection-control policies. This includes keeping the healthcare
environment clean, wearing personal protective clothing, using barrier
precautions, and practicing correct handwashing. Although nurses are
busy with many responsibilities, the time it takes to control infection
is well worth the effort (4 Examples of Evidence-Based Practice in
Nursing, 2016). How has EBP influenced overall health care deliveryTo significantly impact quality improvement, one needs to apply
evidence-based practice (EBP). Without EBP, healthcare providers are at
risk for variances in care that could seriously affect patient outcomes
(Troseth, 2016). Evidence-based practice can provide an exceptional
opportunity to optimize patient care and outcomes by creating and
leveraging the right tools, culture, education, and patient engagement
skills in the overall care process (Troseth, 2016).Reference4 examples of evidence-based practice in nursing. (2016, December 20). A-State. https://degree.astate.edu/articles/nursing/examples-of-evidence-based-practice-in-nursing.aspx (Links to an external site.).Evidence-based practice in modern healthcare. Northeastern State University Online. (2017, December 5). https://nursingonline.nsuok.edu/articles/rnbsn/evidence-based-practice-in-modern-healthcare.aspx.Troseth, M. R. (2016, June 28). Evidence-based practice: The key to advancing quality and safety in healthcare. .
Becker’s Hospital Review.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/evidence-based-practice-the-key-to-advancing-quality-and-safety-in-healthcare.html.
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