Examine the concepts of health, disease, health promotion and disease prevention.
Work Site Teaching Exemplar Critique
The purpose of the work site teaching exemplar is to create an education program aimed at primary, secondary or tertiary prevention for your selected population in your work setting. This project can be directed towards Nursing staff, a particular client, or an aggregate group of patients.
Meets Course Objectives:
Examine the concepts of health, disease, health promotion and disease prevention.
Explore professional organizations and web sites which partner and provide resources for health promotion and disease prevention.
Compare and contrast major theoretical foundations to promote health, wellness and prevent disease.
Examine health promotion strategies targeting the prevention of chronic disease.
Synthesize broad ecological, global and social determinants of health; principles of genetics and genomics; and epidemiologic data to design and deliver evidence-based, culturally relevant clinical prevention interventions and strategies.
Design patient-centered and culturally responsive strategies in the delivery of clinical prevention and health promotion interventions and/or services to individuals, families, communities, and aggregates/clinical populations and individual work settings.
Advance equitable and efficient prevention services, and promote effective population-based health policy through the application of nursing science and other scientific concepts.
