Self-Risk Assessment Brenda Grimmer Chamberlain College of Nursing NR704: DNP Concepts in Population Health Outcomes September, 2015 Leddy’s Healthiness Scale Appendix A Leddy Healthiness Scale Directions: Highlight the number that best indicates your degree of agreement with each of the following statements. Please answer all of the questions the way you feel right now. 6 Completely Agree; 5 Mostly Agree; 4 Slightly Agree; 3 Slightly Disagree; 2 Mostly Disagree; 1 Completely Disagree 1. I think that I function pretty well. 6 5 4 3 2 1 2. I have goals that I look forward to accomplishing in the next year. 6 5 4 3 2 1 3. I am part of a close and supportive family. 6 5 4 3 2 1 4. I don’t feel there is much that is meaningful in my life. …show more content…
The summative score can range from 26 to 156, with higher scores indicating higher healthiness. Leddy’s Healthiness Scale (Leddy, 2006) was completed and scored. A summative score of 152 was calculated, which is a value that suggests an elevated level of health and well-being. Leddy (2006) describes healthiness as a quantifiable means of insight, discernments, connectedness with others and the environment, and goal attainment. Healthiness is a sense of well-being and interactions that allows individuals to be involved in their lifestyle choices, such as nutrition, exercise, and risky behaviors. As a DNP-prepared nurse, there is an obligation to promote health and encourage healthy lifestyles. Health promotion is comprised of education, judgements, accommodating with activities to include health screening, individual care, supporting environmental modification for optimistic well-being activities and options, and developing policies in employment and public locations (Rowland, Fragala-Pinkham, Miles, & O’Neil, 2015). It is important to assess one’s own health and live a healthy lifestyle to be a respectable healthcare provider, as well as be a role model for other …show more content…
Nursing theory affords the dialogue, models, and global aspect to take note of the nursing interest (Leddy, 2006). Nursing theories and models can be ascertained to direct nursing performance. Using Leddy’s theory (2006), the individual is seen as an open energy power that interacts with the atmosphere on a persistent basis. Individuals can take charge of their own health by making choices. The environment is ever changing and impacts change. Health is viewed as a part of the whole, is variable and teeters between synchronization and disagreement. Nurses depend on theories and models to promote healing, well-being, and mindfulness when providing care for individuals and interacting with
10. - I wanted to let Siller know that it was the victim not his father. Luis abused me verbally, he screamed and yield at me for not reason and screaming at me. Financially, demanding me to pay him back the flight tickets to Australia, visa’s fee, the total cost of food and half of the utilities.
1.When I think of Nursing, I see it as part of the health care institution providing a venue through which people of social and personal conscious may engage humanity to effect positive,concrete, growth and change. There are many aspects to nursing which define and guide it. For me, I
These viewpoints have importance for medicine as well as for nursing or other health professions. The complete practice of human caring theory is most fully realized in a nursing theory because nursing allows for the constant caring factor that medicine does not have;
Based on your readings from this section and the videos respond to the following questions and to 2 of your classmates. Describe a challenging, diversity-related situation that you have faced, and likely will continue to face in your nursing career. A challenging, diversity-related situation that I have faced, and likely will continue to face in my nursing career is caring post-operative patients with various pain and treatment beliefs. As a Med-Surg nurse, I often care for patients with countless diagnoses/surgeries and of various cultural beliefs and practices regarding pain and treatment beliefs.
However, she was able to link the person’s health with the environment through nursing so she was able to interrelate all four concepts into one circumstance (Potter & Perry, 2013). The primary focus of the first concept, nursing, is that the nurse is to give the patient the best possible conditions to thrive in by controlling the factors that affect the health and healing and taking “charge of somebody’s health” (Nightingale, 1860 p. 1). The person in the environmental model was never really defined by Nightingale, but is multidimensional and simply the patient receiving the care. The person is impacted by the environment which leads me into the third concept of environment.
1. I know how to use a computer (I love technology and use it every day and I got to know it) 2. I know how to calm myself down quickly when I am angry (Go do something that I like or listen to my favorite songs) 3. I know how to drive well (I was taught by my Dad on a lawn mower) 4. I know how to use technology well (Been in love with technology since middle school) 5.
Caring for The Individual: An Examination of Personal Nursing Philosophy Arianna Mailloux 400164224 NURSING 2AA3 Ashley Collins Harris February 19, 2018 As a novice nurse, developing and understanding of ones’ own personal feelings about nursing is important to help shape your clinical practice. Within this paper I will examine my personal assumptions, beliefs and values of the four nursing paradigms to develop a personal philosophy of nursing. This philosophy will be aligned with a known nursing theory and the comparisons will be discussed. Section I: Personal Philosophy of Nursing Person
It is the person and their physical, emotional, and psychological needs that are the basic focus of nursing’s attention. In order to care for a patient, the nurse must incorporate all these needs. For example, providing reassurance with an anxious patient who just finished hip surgery. Care also plays a major part when taking care of a unique patient. Caring influences my personal philosophy because it is the most important aspect of nursing.
Activity 15.1 Write five simple sentences on the lines below. 1.I love to eat candy all day. 2.I like to stay in my room.
These factors provide guidelines for nurse-patient relationship, and the goal of nursing to help persons attain a higher level of harmony within the mind-body-spirit, healing and health. The 10 caritas processes include the practice of loving kindness, equanimity, and belief system for oneself and other. She promotes cultivation one’s world spiritual practices, self-awareness, authentic relationship with the patient, and support patient’s expression of feelings. In addition, she encourage to creatively use the nursing knowledge as part of the caring process, engage in genuine teaching-learning experience, and create a healing environment at all levels. Watson believes that the nurse’s assistance with patient’s basic needs potentiate alignment of the mind-body-spirit.
The MPS is based on the following assumptions, which reflect the perspectives of nursing and behavioral science: 1. People seek to create living conditions through which they can express their unique potential for human health. 2. People have the capacity to reflect on their own conscience, including the evaluation of their own competencies. 3.
Nursing Theorists and their Theory 1.Florence Nightingale- Nightingale’s theory of the Environment is mainly focused on the environment, she believed that, the environment has a great importance that can be used to improve and encourage healing. With proper ventilation, clean air, lack of noise , proper lighting, and adequate elimination of waste. Are a few factors she believed and can be observed and maintained. 2.Sister Calista Roy- Roy’s Theory is based on, in which the individual views biopsychosocial being, in which a person adapt with the constant change of the environment.
My perspective on holistic nursing and self-care Introduction In context of World Health Organization, self-care is often defined as activities individuals, families and communities undergoes with the motive of increasing health, overcoming disease, limiting illness and restoring health ("What is", n.d.). The knowledge and skills are gained from both professional and lay experiences for such activities. According to Klebanoff & Hess (2013), holistic nursing is defined as all nursing practice that has only motive of healing the whole person as its prime goal. A holistic nurse is like a licensed nurse who often incorporates a “mind-body-spirit-emotion-environment” approach to the practice of traditional nursing.
1. God is cruel for giving things a chance to happen the way they are. 2. Things are going on totally by irregular possibility and that there is no reasonable purpose behind them. 3.
The final concept is nursing. To define it, it’s a serving service, and a technology (Dorothea Orem 's Self-Care Theory, 2014). Engagements intentionally designated and executed by the nurses to support individuals below their precaution to sustain or altered disorders (Dorothea Orem 's Self-Care Theory, 2014). This also includes the patient’s viewpoint of health state, the Doctor’s standpoint, and the nursing perspective (Dorothea Orem 's Self-Care Theory, 2014). Nursing’s goal is to concentrate on the patient and how to sustain his or her well-being, life and health (Dorothea Orem 's Self-Care Theory, 2014).