Herzing NU580 All Units Discussions Latest 2019 MAY Question # 00601000 Course Code : NU580 Subject: Health Care Due on: 05/07/2019 Posted On: 05/07/2019 08:15 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.7/5

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 1 Discussion

Personal
Health Promotion

In starting
this course, please start by sharing one or two health promotion activities you
have found most helpful personally.

Provide
your opinion why the activity works.

You may
also discuss this in relation to a patient, or family member if you do not want
to share about your own health promotion activities.

As we go
through the course, you will explore many different health promotion
guidelines, research and evidence based practice protcols.

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 2 Discussion

Key Health
Indicators

State
health report cards identify key health indicators related to health outcomes,
health behaviors, and quality of health systems. By examining these health
indicators and how they might influence the health status of your specific
patient population, you will be able to better address health risk behaviors
and burdens of illness within your clinical setting.

In this
Discussion, review your state’s health report card (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site. and consider direct and indirect burdens of
key health indicators.

Post an
explanation of your state’s key health indicators and how these indicators
influence health status.

Explain how
this relates to what is and what is not covered under Medicare and Medicaid.

Then,
explain the direct and indirect burdens of health risk behaviors and disease
(i.e., cost, morbidity, premature mortality, etc.).

Finally,
explain how policy impacts key health indicators and the burdens of health risk
behaviors and disease.

Locate and
review your state’s health report card.

Reflect on
your state’s statistics and key health indicators, including how they influence
health status.

Consider
how this relates to what is and is not covered under Medicare and Medicaid.

Think about
the direct and indirect burdens of health risk behaviors and disease (i.e.,
costs, morbidity, premature mortality, etc.).

Consider
how policy impacts key health indicators and burdens of health risk behaviors
and disease.

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 3 Discussion

Health
Promotion Themes

Per the
Pender reading, the National Institute of Nursing Research identifies four
themes to establish a scientific base of care and health promotion.

Select one
theme.

Explain how
research in this area can affect health promotion across the lifespan for a
specific group (f.ex. children, the elderly, migrant farm-workers etc. )

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 4 Discussion

Functional
Health

From the
Pender reading (p.94), what are Gordon’s focus areas of functional health?

How do
nurses utilize those functional health patterns across the lifespan?

How do they
impact the nursing diagnosis?

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 5 Discussion

Social
Factors Affecting Wellness

Select an
age group (infant, toddler, child, adolescent, young adult, middle age adult or
older adult).

What
physical changes is this group experiencing?

What are
some pathological risks?

Are there
social factors affecting their ability to achieve wellness?

What can
advanced practice nurses do to promote health in this group?

Access the
site, Healthy People Environmental Health.
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

(Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.What agencies are supporting the National Health Promotion Agenda
for environmental health?

Present one
agency and its role.

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 6 Discussion

Stress

Review page
193 in the Pender text.

Complete
the “Breathe Away Stress in 8 Steps” activity.

Describe
your experience.

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 7 Discussion

Health
Related Cultural Elements

After
reading this unit’s assigned chapters, identify a minority population in your
community.

Describe
health related cultural elements that affect health promotion and planning for
this group.

What are
some considerations to ensure cultural communication is effective and interventions
will be successful?

NU580 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Unit 8 Discussion

Reflection

Please
respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:

Synthesize
broad ecological, global and social determinants of health; principles of
genetics and genomics; and epidemiologic data to design and deliver evidence
based, culturally relevant clinical prevention interventions and strategies.
AACN VIII.1

Evaluate
the effectiveness of clinical prevention interventions that affect individual
and population-based health outcomes using health information technology and
data sources. AACN VIII.2.

Design
patient-centered and culturally responsive strategies in the delivery of
clinical prevention and health promotion interventions and/or services to
individuals, families, communities, and aggregates/clinical populations. AACN
VIII.3.

Advance
equitable and efficient prevention services, and promote effective Population -based
health policy through the application of nursing science and other scientific
concepts. AACN VIII.4.

Integrate
clinical prevention and population health concepts in the development of
culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate health education,
communication strategies, and interventions. AACN VIII.5.

Please
answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.

For each of
the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each
objective.

Explain how
the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be
applicable to professional application.

Provide
evidence (citations and references) to support your statements and opinions.
All references and citations should in APA format.