Lec 2 - Caring In Nursing Practice And Health Education Flashcards
is both an art and a science
Taylor, Lillis, Le Mone & Lynn (2011)
Nursing
It is a profession that uses specialized
knowledge and skills to promote
wellness and to provide care for
people in both health and illness in a
variety of practice settings.
Taylor, Lillis, Le Mone & Lynn (2011)
Nursing
4 aims of nursing
- to promote health
- to prevent illness
- to restore health
- to facilitate coping with disability
a state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-
being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity.
- World Health Organization (1948)
Health
The range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors which determine the health status of individuals or populations
Determinants of health
is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.
health promotion
covers measures not only to prevent the occurrence of
disease, such as risk factor reduction, but also to arrest its
progress and reduce its consequences once established.
disease prevention
comprises of consciously constructed opportunities
for learning involving some form of communication
designed to improve health literacy, including
improving knowledge, and developing life skills which
are conducive to individual and community health.
health education
represents the cognitive and social skills which
determine the motivation and ability of individuals to
gain access to, understand and use information in
ways which promote and maintain good health
health literacy
Any activity undertaken by an individual, regardless of
actual or perceived health status, for the purpose of
promoting, protecting or maintaining health, whether or
not such behaviour is objectively effective towards that end
health behavior
behaviours associated with increased
susceptibility to a specific cause of ill-health.
risk behaviors
Social, economic or biological status, behaviours or
environments which are associated with or cause increased
susceptibility to a specific disease, ill health, or injury
risk factors
A description and/or measurement of the health of an
individual or population at a particular point in time against
identifiable standards, usually by reference to health
indicators
health status
A change in the health status of an individual, group or
population which is attributable to a planned intervention
or series of interventions, regardless of whether such an
intervention was intended to change health status
health outcome
means fairness
equity
