Conceptual Framework for Health Promotion

Running head: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF HEALTH PROMOTION
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
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1CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
Introduction
The role of an advanced practicing nurse, demands various responsibilities, without
limiting merely to the disease treatment of the concerned patient. The advanced practicing nurse,
is involved in a variety of essential roles like diagnosis of disease, formulation of prescriptions,
communicating with the patient’s families as well as engaging in recent medical research (Swan
et al., 2015). Hence, the need for the hour is to develop a conceptual framework for nurses
involved in advanced practicing roles, due to their dynamic multidisciplinary functions. The
following paragraphs highlight the conceptual framework of a health promotion model, in
relation to the role of an advanced practicing nurse.
Importance and identification of a conceptual nursing framework
The usage of a conceptual theoretical framework is imperative to the field of nursing.
With the help of a framework, nurses aiming to engage in advanced practicing roles, obtain a
clear idea of the key concepts and theories that they are required to apply practically, from their
curriculum to real life medical settings (Bryant-Lukosius et al., 2016). As opined by the World
Health Organization, the principles of ‘Health Promotion’ is based upon enhancing an
individual’s participation in the control, regulation and improvement of their health, with
associated mediating functioning at societal as well as environmental platforms (Lindström,
2018). Hence, it is of utmost importance to establish a conceptual framework of health
promotion, keeping in the mind the dynamic multidisciplinary role of the advanced practicing
nurse.

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Value of conceptual framework for advanced nursing
The advanced practicing nurse is increasingly undertaking interdisciplinary roles, beyond
merely alleviation of somatic symptoms of the patients. Advanced practicing nurses are now
entrusted with a variety of multiple functions such as providing consultation to patients as well
families, assessing the patient’s health status on various functional and developmental levels as
well as collaborating with clinicians in the diagnosis and prescription of medications to patients
(Heale & Buckley, 2015). Hence, concerning the dynamic roles of today’s advanced practicing
nurse, the value of development of a conceptual framework is immense in order to clearly define
the roles of advanced practicing nurses, in not just disease prevention, but also in the
multidisciplinary roles of counseling, diagnosis, researching, evaluating and follow up of the
patient, both at individual, as well as at the community levels.
Health Promotion: The Metaparadigm Concept
Patient/Client
With respect to the conceptual framework of the health promotion model, the advance
nurse should aim to conduct health promotion activities, not only through obtaining extensive
patient case histories for treatment of the same at the psychosocial, developmental and functional
platforms, maintenance of records of patients, evaluation of the patients reception to the
treatment plan, along with provision of patient consulting services and counseling of the
concerned families. (Swan et al., 2015). There is also a need for the advanced practice nurse to
conduct extensibe research in order to conduct adequate diagnosis (Lucchini et al., 2017).