Health Promotion and Nursing roles on management of Diabetes Mellitus

Health Promotion and Nursing roles on management of Diabetes Mellitus
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Introduction
As defined by the World Health Organization, health promotion refers to the process of
enabling people to increase control over and to improve their overall health. It goes beyond
individual behavior focus to beyond various broad range of determinants and overall social
and environmental arena. The focus of health promotion has not only been the focus of health
promotion staff in the health continuum but rather also the role of nurses. Nurses play a
critical role in promoting health. The traditional overview of the nurses’ role has always been
focussed disease prevention and behavior change. However, promotion of health has been
adopted; the topical agenda of health is often a complex process involving various
stakeholders in implementing various facets of health care. Nurses play a dynamic and
relevant role in the promotion of health care (Pearson, Tossavainen & Turunen, 2013).
Nurses are essential in the integral aspect of the overall improvement of care and promoting
health. Their role in diabetes management among patient is a crucial aspect as it entails
lifestyle and dietary changes. This essay focuses on the strategies linked health promotion as
identified by the Ottawa Charter of health promotion.
Perspectives of Ottawa Charter Strategies
Public health advocacy approaches in health care provision are essential in forming
active support and engagement to initiate policy action. Advocacy is observed to improve
patient lives having diabetes. This regards to the role and impact of the on obesity, inactive
state and smoking effects on the overall health of the patients. Thus nursing efforts are crucial
in addressing and assessing the social determinants which target at the root causes of the
problems. In the clinical and nursing domain, application of evidence level and entrenching
practical and research-based recommendations are crucial in promoting health (Grant &
Kirkman, 2015).
Further, advocating for public health reforms in the policy action is fundamental
towards targeted policies which aid the nurse to positively contribute to the patient overall
status. Advocacy on health promotion reforms is essential in revamping the health systems.
Moreover, the influence on organizational and funding structures targeting those diagnosed
with diabetes mellitus is crucial in the general health of these people. The influence of nurses
will entail organizational influence on the funding structures targeted towards the
management of diabetes care be prevention and health promotion activities. Policy revolving
around funding models for health promotion in the Australian health care system is vital for
the general health promotion of health among these patients. Increasing advocacy on
prevention and care services offered by the nurse's play a vital role across the spectrum, in the

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prevention of health promotion (Halcomb et al., 2016).
Often nurses think of health promotion as part of nursing task s while health promotion
is viewed as a health education aspect. Health promotion refer to the process of empowering
the diabetic patients in having control of their lives and entail avenues to promoting and meet
the social and environmental needs affecting patient health status. There are various
environmental factors which influence health such as shortage of food, lack of physical
exercises leading to increased occurrence and worsening of diabetic mellitus health status. the
supportive environment focuses on the concepts of the physical, social, economic and
political context in the health care environment as described by world health organization.
Nurses have a role in increasing health promotion avenues through integrated nursing
profession aspects. In Ireland, the nursing profession is progressively being entrenched in the
delivery of health promotion as they have close contact with the patients in most of the cases
(Shoqirat & Cameroon, 2013). Health promotion avenues need to be aligned to on established
theory and relevant models for effective intervention planning during the nursing practices.
The International Council of Nurses –ICN code of ethics outlines that nurses have key
fundamental roles which entail promotion and restoration of health, illness prevention and
suffering alleviation amongst patients. This is a crucial aspect in the management of diabetes
mellitus among patients. Implementing these nursing responsibilities is essential for
promoting the overall recovery process of patients and creating a supportive environment
where interventions could be implemented with the disease is vital in the nursing arena
(Murray & O’Neil, 2016).
Most of the health care system for the nurses often entails the majority of the work
being undertaken in structured homes and health care facilities. In the outside environment,
community nurses perform an essential aspect in the promotion of health care services across
the population. In the Australian health care system, the two tiers layers of nursing profession
play a fundamental role (Baun and Sanders, 2011). Territorial level of health care is essential
in managing public level hospitals and community health care services which entail health
promotion aspects (Kokeny, 2011). The community nurses are essential in discharging
complex health care situation of the patients and are considered as key players in the
community. They can play a crucial role in managing follow up for diabetes mellitus patients
in terms of monitoring their progress and regular lifestyle management at their homes and
nearby health and wellness care facilities.
Community nurses often play an active role in health promotion practices due to their
reason for working with patients in the community setups. They ensure they build around