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Health Care -- Philosophy of Graduate Nursing Education
In many senses, the nurse practitioner (NP) takes the profession of nursing to the next level. While the treatment of illness important, the NP also has broader focus of total well-being, including wellness, rights, education and preventative medicine for the patient, his/her family, and local, state, national and global communities. Consequently, in addition to treating the physical ailments of a patient, the modern NP must be clinically and intellectually excellent, an eternal student and teacher who fulfill numerous roles in nearly every health care situation.
A crucial aspect of nursing is the caregiver's relationship with the patient. Patient education is an important aspect of nursing and when carried over to the NP role, patient education greatly improves treatment because the patient has a...
A NP is a "partner with the patient" whenever possible, learning from and educating the patient about the benefits and risks of treatments and partnering with the patient to make the best decision for that patient. In order to ably fulfill this teaching/partner role, the NP must possess the best medical knowledge possible and be willing to constantly expand and refine that knowledge. Consequently, the NP's education must significantly build and hone the student's clinical and intellectual abilities, encouraging the student's dedication to constant learning and teaching.
A natural outgrowth of the NP's role as patient teacher/partner is the role as teacher/partner for total wellness of the patient's family and community. Consequently, NPs are concerned…
Health and Wellness Definitions of Health In 1997, the World Health Organization decided that the on hand definition of health needed to be modified to ensure elasticity and better implementation. The definition according to the WHO constitution of 1948 defines health as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." It has been proposed that the prologue should be customized to
According to Zoller, scholars and/or practitioners proponents of workplace health promotion (WHP) generally assume that employees universally welcome the programs. Perhaps, the primary delimitation that could be contributed to health and wellness programs would be that one of the other would not be wanted by employees. Consequently, health promotion literature that deems the programs to be "pro-social" endeavors designed in employees' best interests frequently fail to engage employees' participation. Additional delimitations
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Eating for Good Health - Safe Weight Loss vs. Fad Dieting This paper explores the need for safe weight loss and healthy eating, as opposed to the fad diets often featured on television, in newspapers and in magazines. For the purposes of this paper, healthy eating is defined according to the standards set out by the U.S. government in its 2000 guidelines on nutrition. The diet industry globally makes millions of dollars
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