NSG2PHN Health Promotion and Education Research Paper 2022

Nursing Role in Primary Health Care, Health Promotion and Education
Name- Parmjeet Kaur Gill
Student ID- 19500834
Subject - NSG2PHN

Public Health Nursing Role in “Healthy Ageing”
Introduction
This paper discusses public health nursing role in healthy ageing as a PHC nurse role amongst
the seniors in Australia. This paper will talk about five strategies which can be proposed for the
Ottawa Charter health promotion which enables the people to increase the control over their
health. These factors also helps in improving the public health which articulates the central
values of participation, empowerment and equity. This paper will talk about five strategies
required for the promotion of public health community of Australia. The Australian population is
comprised of aged population at a major percentage. The first strategy is “Creation of healthy
public policy in every governmental sector” followed by “Creation of supportive environments
for the improvement of working and living conditions”. The third strategy is “Strengthening the
community action in strategy and priority settings”, fourth being “Development of personal skills
via education for life skills and health sections” and finally ending with “Restoration of health
services towards the promotion of health (WHO, 2009a)”. These strategies will enable te peole to
reach their full health potential.
The PHC healthy ageing nurse will seek to organize a meeting for all stakeholders in the
community to bring government reps, NGOs and community members to discuss how best they
can tackle determinants of healthy ageing (Phillips & Miltner, 2015).
A: Public Health Nursing Role in Healthy Ageing
The aged people of Australia have to be supported to live in a setting of their own
choosing and properly receive service which promotes autonomy, meet their preferences as well

as enhance social connection (Devi & Singh, 2018). Public health nurses must identify potential
opportunities for supporting healthy ageing programs which encompass re-enablement initiatives
in every setting. The primary role of public health nurse is to prevent the condition of injury,
illness or disability among the selected group of people taken for the study. The secondary role
of public health care nurses is to provide health promotion and maintain a healthy condition
among the Australian population.Public health nurses have to remain competent to acknowledge
and react to deterioration, cognitive alongside a functional drop in elderly Australians as well as
be skilled and educated to give proper care (Flicker, 2018). Public health nursing curriculums
must be age-inclusive as well as clinical support placement in all aged-care contexts. Public
health nurse-led care models must be developed, implemented as well as appraised to support
healthy ageing besides informing policy for senior Australians. Public health nurses need to get
sufficient education and professional preparedness to correctly identify as well as challenge
stereotypes which promote attitudes of ageist (Zaidi et al., 2017). Public health nurses are
essential in identifying and compulsory reporting abuse of the elderly. Senior Australians with
multiple features and life-experiences must have equitable access to info and services to
accomplish their needs (Brown, Care & Australia, 2020).
B: Ottawa Charter Strategies
PHC public health nurses have a critical role in implementing the Ottawa Charter
strategies in health promotion to ensure proper healthy ageing through advocating for healthy
ageing.This condition will enable a condition ofhealthy ageing and mediating for healthy ageing
by discouraging the ageist attitude (Bakhshi, Sun, Murrells & While, 2015).
Assessment 1 Health Promotion Template

Ottawa Charter
Health Promotion Strategy
Health Promotion Activity
of your selected PHC Public
Nursing Role
Creation of healthy public
policy in every governmental
sector.
The main role of this health promotion
activity is to create public health
policy which will work for the
prevention of chronic diseases and
reduction of mortality rate among the
community people.
Creation of supportive
environments for the
improvement of working and
living conditions.
Supportive environments such as care
sectors for older people will help in
the improvement of the health.
Strengthening the community
action in strategy and priority
settings.
The community action strategies such
as taking proper actions to tackle
hazardous situations such as a fire
outbreak in a community.
Development of personal skills
via education for life skills and
health sections.
These activities will help in the
improvement of public health by
making them aware at health sectors.