Transtheoretical Model Of Health Education

Through education and clinical experience, I have gained the knowledge, skills, and proficiency that have prepared me an expert acute care nurse. This has developed the root of my personal philosophy of informatics. This philosophy holds the exceptionality of every individual and the certainty that everyone has the ability to improve his or her knowledge if directed in the right direction. Based on this, my ambition as an informatics nurse is to use

The beginning of a new graduate nurses career rarely begins easily, there seems to be a distinct disconnect between the fantasy of what it means to be a nurse and the reality of bedside nursing. Nursing school seems to feed into this disconnection, in that it does not prepare the new graduate registered nurse (NGRN) for their professional practice. What nursing school does is give the NGRN the basics, a peak into what is to come. The NGRN has to find out for themselves what the true meaning of being a nurse is and if it fits their preconceived ideas.

The role of the health educator includes providing a myriad of education programs to help individuals and communities make healthy lifestyle choices. Skills that health educators should be able to perform are (a) Assess individual and community needs. Besides this, the health educator also needs to perform a capacity assessment to find ways to empower the community and identify skills and resources they have to help solve problems. Another aspect of this is for educators to collect and analyze data from their specific populations and use this to determine priority areas where health education programs need to be placed. (b) Plan health education strategies, interventions, and programs. This part takes place after the needs of a population have been assessed. It involves recruiting

I think learning more about informatics will help me to become a better nurse while working in the hospital. I have several goals about learning informatics. First of all, I know that having more tools about it, will allow me to chart electronically my patient’s records and to protect them. It will help me to save more time while charting, and share my knowledge with other health care team. However, using informatics will allow me to plan appropriate decision for a better care. In addition, Informatics tools will alert about medication errors and the client’s current and ongoing health status. Using high quality electronic while documenting will give me more experience about assessing patients, and promote me to collect their

In this article, researchers explored the different ways nursing students learn in a clinical setting. Nursing students reflected on certain learning opportunities that were significant to them in their first year of clinical practice. Students indicated that participating in complex tasks, being emotionally invested in the work they were all doing and finding an experienced nurse to be their role model were among the most important learning opportunities they experienced in their first year. Researchers found that students felt their learning was more meaningful when they were actively engaging in their learning. The article was harder for me to relate to as it only drew from experiences of first-year nurses in a clinical setting; as a second

My definition of health literacy has greatly changed during this course. Looking back upon my first post, I realize that I knew little of health literacy. After this class, I have realized that most adults have low health literacy levels and require instructions in simple form to obtain a clear understanding of the health materials. Health literacy is more complex than I had originally thought and it is challenging to modify the educational materials for the specific target audience. Strategic planning is necessary to ensure adequate learning for the special needs of the audience. I have learned that one must assess the audience’s psychological, social, developmental, and cultural influences prior to developing the educational material.

Health education in Victoria is designed to aid young people in improving their own health, and the health of others (Wright, 2014). With such a broad goal, there is great emphasis placed on the teaching methods used to achieve this outcome. The approach for teaching health has changed substantially over time with new emerging ideas on what is the best way for students to view health. In fact, the latest modification to health education was introduced this year. Therefore, this paper’s intention is to illustrate the role of health education in society, how health education has been altered in the past, what the new curriculum involves and critique these changes by discussing the implications upon teaching and learning health.

The concept of health literacy was first originated in early years and it was recognised as an autonomous research field in 1990s (Andrew pleasant and Shyama Kuruvilla, 2008). The

In this case, the nurse professional or clinical instructor will teach and help nursing students in the clinical setting to know what is the benefit and purpose of case studies, patient conditions, different

The world of health care has been evolving on various levels while depending health information technology through a process of exchanging, sending and generating patient documentation to promote the safe and efficient system. Therefore, nursing profession faced impetus leading nursing students in obtaining adequate skills in informatics essential in their practice guided by QSEN Quality and Safety Nursing Education, AACN American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials and NLN National League for Nursing's competency framework (Skiba, 2013).

Health education is a profession of educating people about health. Areas within health education include environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health. It can be defined as the principles of which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a way to build up the promotion of health and healthy behaviors, keep up the maintenance of good clean health behaviors, or restore health that has been diminished by bad health behaviors. A health educator has seven responsibilities that help communities and individuals learn better health habits. The first four are the ones that were most drilled into our heads during 339. Responsibility one is assessing individual and community

Health Literacy resides beneath the umbrella of social determinants; aptitude in this form of literacy is a determinant of wellbeing, and influences vulnerabilities and capacities towards disease formation and prevention (Reading & Wien, 2009). Historically, health literacy had a subservient role in condition-focused care, and possessed an approach that lacked partnership, capacity building and thus empowerment. The significance of the relatively new and evolving concept was unveiled due to implications of suboptimal levels, and addressed through accessible education within the realms of nursing/medicine and primary/community healthcare (Egbert & Nanna, 2009). There are varying elements within ‘Health literacy’ with three platforms titled:

Health literacy has been identified as a fundamental area when it comes to the prevention of diseases and the promotion of health. The concept of health literacy is anchored on the strategies used to ensure that the population is able to not only access health services and programs but also apply the recommendations provided with the view to gaining an awareness or empowerment that will help people to make informed decisions (CDC, n.d.). Although much of the health literacy programs encompass the development of basic language as well as literacy skills, the concept of health literacy goes beyond the confines of reading and comprehending health information and messages to include "the educational, social, and cultural factors that influence

Health promotion and health education are both very good fields that provide awareness to individuals on health and wellness, subjects and issues. They both have very similar objectives and goals towards creating a healthier lifestyle and they strive to help improve the health and well being of individuals. Even though these fields of interest maybe similar in ways they are actually very different and should be classified as so. Health promotion is a field that is more about advocating for a better quality of life by promoting and campaigning awareness, while health education is a field of study that is more focused about teaching different methods and theories to help increase the knowledge in individuals.

Becoming a nurse requires extensive schooling and training that for most students causes considerable amounts of stress to be placed on their success for the future. Nursing school places students in an environment that is rigorous and competitive which in turn results in high-stress levels experienced by these students. The stress inflicted on these students causes them to experience health problems along with deterring them from completing their studies. Additionally, the pressure and struggles these students are facing are being ignored by those placing them under these conditions, ignoring the fact that the educators of these students are responsible for ensuring the well-being of these students. Proven that nursing students experience more stress than the average college undergraduate, the stress inflicted on nursing students by their educational process results in students that are less likely to succeed and that are overall less healthy both physically and mentally.