Health Models
This health model focuses on an individual's motivation to take action and how they are influenced by certain beliefs or experiences.
What is the Health Belief Model
The patient with multiple of these has an increased developing the disease within the next 10 years.
What are Risk Factors
This type of prevention involves promoting healthy lifestyle choices and immunizations.
What is primary prevention
Sarah, a homeless patient, is dealing with a chronic wound to the left lower extremity and reports difficulty in managing care regarding her wound. She also reports struggling to find a safe place to sleep and enough food to eat. In Sarah's scenario, the priority focus in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is this.
What are physiological needs?
The process of enabling patients to increase control over and improve their health.
What is health promotion?
A nurse is educating a group of high school students on the dangers of smoking to prevent future respiratory diseases. This type of prevention is
What is primary prevention
This scenario involves primary prevention because it aims to prevent the onset of disease (respiratory diseases in this case) by educating individuals (high school students) about the risks of smoking. By discouraging smoking initiation, the nurse promotes health and prevents potential health problems.
This model views health as a synergistic relationship that exists between the body and the environment.
What is the Holist Health Model?
Nurses participate in holistic care through natural healing remedies and complementary interventions. The patient is included as an active participant in the healing process rather than a passive receiver of therapeutic interventions.
The priority health promotion topics for this group are falls, depression and suicide, oral health, and smoking cessation.
Who are Older Adults?
After a patient has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the nurse focuses on managing blood glucose levels through diet and exercise. This type of prevention is
What is tertiary prevention??
The goal is to help patients attain the highest level of physical and mental health achievable within the parameters of impairment caused by disease or disability, in this case, the patient's diagnosis of diabetes.
Mike, a 55-year-old man, has been diagnosed with high blood pressure. Despite his diagnosis, he believes that high blood pressure is a common condition and not particularly serious. Mike's scenario highlights this concept of the Health Belief Model.
What is the seriousness of the illness?
Mike's belief that high blood pressure is not a serious condition reflects his perception of the low seriousness of the illness according to the Health Belief Model. This perception may hinder his motivation to take proactive steps to manage and treat his high blood pressure effectively.
This principle is a systematic step-by-step improvement of individual health factors. These combined improvements lower the likelihood of developing a disease.
What is Risk Factor Reduction?
Following a stroke, a nurse works with the patient to prevent further complications and improve quality of life. This level of prevention is
What is tertiary prevention?
Tertiary prevention aims to reduce the impact of an already established disease or injury. In a stroke survivor's case, the nurse focuses on rehabilitation, preventing secondary complications, and promoting optimal recovery and quality of life.
Jane, a 45-year-old woman, recently learned that her father was diagnosed with heart disease. Despite having a family history of the condition, Jane believes she leads a healthy lifestyle and is unlikely to develop heart disease herself. This is an example of what aspect of the Health Belief Model?
What is the perception of susceptibility to illness?
Explanation: Jane's perception that she is unlikely to develop heart disease despite her family history reflects her perceived low susceptibility to the illness. According to the Health Belief Model, individuals are more likely to take preventive actions if they perceive themselves to be susceptible to the health threat.
This process of self-care uses knowledge to empower a person to become more aware of bodily needs and how to meet those needs by making healthy choices, which can lead to an improved healthy lifestyle.
What is Wellness?
A nurse conducts routine screenings for hypertension in a population known to have high rates of heart disease. The nurse is conducting this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
Secondary prevention involves early detection and prompt intervention to manage a disease or condition before it progresses further. In this case, the nurse is conducting routine screenings for hypertension in a population at risk for heart disease, aiming to detect hypertension early and intervene to prevent complications such as heart attacks or strokes.