Compare_Three_Levels_of_Health_Promotion_in_Nursing_Practice

Compare Three Levels of Health Promotion In Nursing Practice Introduction The provision of health care is an important requirement for all people across the globe. The profession of health care is divided into a number of stages depending on the nature and type of health care that gets accorded at these stages. There are three major types of health care; the primary, secondary, and tertiary systems of health care. This paper shall analyze articles that highlight on these three types of health care in order to identify the similarities and differences in their adoption of health care promotion strategies. Health Promotion Health promotion is generally defined as a process that enables people to increase the ability of their control over their health and other factors and determinants that affect their health. This way, they are able to improve their health status. According to the primary care stage of disease management, health promotion is conceptualized as the provision of generalized care by health practitioners in efforts to curb the symptoms and spreading of a disease before it takes toil on the population. Health promotion, in this context, therefore, depends on the ability of the health care givers to identify a disease, which could be new or existing, in order to identify the symptoms to this disease and interventions that they can take to treat the condition in the affected population and among those that stand to be affected. The second article, which includes the secondary methods of health care promotion, defines health care promotion as the interventions to health care that are taken by specialists in the field of health. Secondary health care comes after primary health care, after one is referred for more specialized care that is more specific than the primary attention given earlier. Health promotion on secondary terms means that the specialist focuses on specific body parts or systems, and identifies underlying problems so that he can find appropriate treatments to these parts and stop the possible spread of the disease to other parts of the body. While primary health care promotion, therefore, focuses on stopping the spread of disease to other people, secondary health care promotion focuses on stopping the spread of diseases to other parts of the body in a single individual (Simonen & Blom, 2011). Health care promotion, in tertiary terms, refers to the promotion of health within a hospital environment using specialized care. Primary and secondary promotion can take place in the home of the patient through specialized home care or community health facilities. Tertiary health care, on the other hand, requires that the patient receives the treatment in a hospital facility after being hospitalized for the condition. The promotion of health in this situation involves the use of highly specialized tools and equipment as well as technology in order to meet the highly specialized needs of the patient as well. Like in the article selected above, the research on causes of death using pathological autopsies is an example tertiary health promotion (Panchabhai et al…,2009). The three articles all offer a differentiated view on the purpose of health promotion in the practice of nursing. In the first article, which presents primary health care promotion, the purpose of health promotion in nursing is to improve the general wellbeing and health of the people. The article looks at the ways of promoting health care among children with diarrhea in Nepal. From the article, it is evident that the aim of nursing in this context is to promote effective health care among people in a generalized manner and promote the general wellbeing of the people. The purpose of health care in the context of secondary health care promotion is to curb the progression of disease in the patients’ body through specialized treatment. Health promotion in this context serves to ensure the wellbeing of single individuals through effective care. The purpose of nursing promotion in the context of tertiary care is to achieve total wellbeing of the individual through highly specialized care. Tertiary health care goes beyond the availing of specialized care to include the knowledge and specialized skills that can be acquired through research studies. In such cases, tertiary health care aims at providing the required knowledge that will deepen the understanding of the health care professionals in the areas of nursing so as to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the nursing process. The roles of nursing are evolving in the practice of health care promotion. The primary role of a nurse in the promotion of health care is to provide a holistic approach to health care to ensure that patients’ needs are met in the most comprehensive manner possible. The nurse in primary health care is required to assess the situation of patients in their medical needs, place this assessment within the community setting, and as such, devise strategies that will enable her to promote health care among the people. The role of nursing in secondary health care promotion is also changing to include more specialized health care that bears in mind the specific needs of the patient. The nurse is required to understand the specific needs of the patient with regard to her demographics so that she may accord the best intervention possible for health care. In tertiary nursing, the roles and responsibilities of nursing require that the nurse engages in the knowledge seeking mission, through which she will be able to identify new knowledge that will facilitate better and improved practices in nursing. The implementation methods for health promotion need to encompass all areas of nursing in order to provide a comprehensive approach to the practice. Such promotion needs to take time to identify the areas that need to be included in the implementation process and devise a strategy that will include all of the required components. As such, an appropriate method would be one that identifies the areas of knowledge and skills, the best practices in the practice, the emerging issues in the area and practice of nursing, emerging technology that is applicable in the profession, and changing attitudes of people in the profession (Khanal et al…, 2013). The primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of health promotion prevention are all effective tools and methods of health promotion at the different levels of health promotion. The primary level is relatively straightforward and less complicated as an intervention for health care. The secondary level is more detailed and pays close attention to the needs of individual patients. It requires specialized care on the part of the nurse, and close follows ups to ensure that the patient’s progress is in the required direction. The tertiary level of health care, on the other hand, is more detailed and involves the critical application of knowledge and skills relevant to the area of nursing. In an integrated model of the same, this system gives the patients the best possible form of health care that meets the needs and requirements of the patients in their needs wholly. References Khanal, S., Ibrahim, M., Shankar, P.,& Palaian, S. (2013). Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 31.2: 231-42. Panchabhai, T., Patil, P., Shah, D., & Joshi, A.(2009). An autopsy study of maternal mortality: A tertiary healthcare perspective. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, 55.1: 8-11. Simonen, O., & Blom, M. (2011). Knowledge of effectiveness and its application in secondary healthcare management. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 60.8: 797-812.