Health Promotion Model Paper

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Utilizing the theoretical framework of nursing help nurses to be effective patient educators. Health promotion model is one of the theories from which nurses use as tools to achieve the optimal patient outcomes. Nurses adapt each unique patient’s situation in their patient education. This case study will use Nola Pender’s Health Promoting Model to help Corey in improving his health promotion behavior by teaching him how to adhere to his medication and supporting the practice of health behavior. According to Pender, Murdaugh, and Parsons, health promotion model describes the multidimensional nature of persons as they interact with their interpersonal and physical environments to pursue health. It enables nurse to explore the complex biophysical …show more content…

Corey has a positive prior related behavior because he successfully tried to exercise regularly in the past, before he finally stopped exercising due to his hospitalizations. His personal factors that the nurses need to consider in his educational plan include biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Corey biological factors are his age, occupation as a elementary student, his normal body mass index, and his high activity level. His psychological factors include his high self esteem, high self-motivation, and perceive of health status as one that can be improved. Corey’s sociocultural factors are his Hispanic background, his parents’ low education, and low-income status. Corey seems to have good biological and physical factors that will benefit him in his attempt to engage in health promoting behaviors although his sociocultural factors do not seem to be supportive to Corey’s health promotion plan. These characteristics of Corey would influence the next stage of the health promotion model where he then contemplates the benefits and barriers of health promoting actions, perceived self-efficacy, and his or her affect related to the specific …show more content…

They are perceived benefits, perceived barriers, perceived self-efficacy, activity-related affect, interpersonal influences and situational influences. Corey intrinsic benefit in promoting health is to increase his energy level, improve his breathing, and prevent his asthma exacerbation. His extrinsic benefit is to be able to actively participate in his basketball team again. Moreover, Corey also has barriers that would discourage him to engage in the health promotion plan. His perceived barriers of action include the lack of understanding of chronic asthma, the use of medication, and the benefit of exercise. On the other hand, the nurse assessment shows that Corey has high self-efficacy. It is important to have high self-efficacy because it can lower his perception of barriers and motivate health-promoting behavior; “self-efficacy motivates health promoting behavior directly by efficacy expectations and indirectly by affecting perceived barriers and level of commitment or persistence in pursuing a plan of action” (Pender, Murdaugh, & Parsons, 2015, p. 37). Furthermore, Corey has a positive activity-related affect. He is a smart young boy who enjoys learning. He is motivated to improve his knowledge about chronic asthma, learn how to take his medication, and exercise to improve hit fitness level. He

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