Health Promotion in Nursing: Conflicts, Ethics, and Decision-Making

This discussion board post addresses the complexities of health promotion in nursing, specifically focusing on conflicts between a nurse's values and a client's values, and ethical dilemmas encountered when teaching health promotion strategies. The author acknowledges the potential for conflict, such as differing views on preventive care and the sensitivity of certain health topics. The post describes a recent health promotion campaign on cancer screening, highlighting the ethical considerations when dealing with patients from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and with varying levels of health knowledge. The author emphasizes the importance of ethical decision-making, nursing interventions, and patient education, particularly in situations where patients' lack of knowledge may hinder preventive care. References are provided to support the discussion, underscoring the importance of communication, ethical conduct, and the nurse's role in promoting health and well-being within the healthcare system. The author's ethical decision was to be involved in the health care model and ensure every patient enjoys the benefit of health promotion.

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Health promotion in nursing
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Health promotion is a way of acknowledging the efficacy of health care and varies
between thoughts of different health professionals. There may be conflict in way of
promoting in clients too. For instance, a doctor may want to advertise the preventive ways of
disease like AIDS by holding campaigns but some nurses or even clients may not like the
idea as this may hurt privacy of the patients. In case of nursing also there may be conflict
with the clients (Wilson & Clark , 2015). The clients may have their reservations and nurses
should appreciate their values in many cases. However, there may be certain situations where
patients’ inadequate knowledge may hinder the process of preventive care. To tackle such
issues nursing principle suggests that there must be proper counselling of such patients to
make them understand the causes and effects so that they can relate with the treatment
procedure. In some case, the relatives of the patients’ also need to be educated as they also
play a pivotal role. Health promotion of preventive cares are mostly conflicted which are
related to intimate care like gynaecological conditions in women (Eldredge et al ., 2016).
These cases are challenging to deal with, therefore the nursing principles help to tackle with
proper communication skills.
Recently in health promoting campaign, promotional strategies were being discussed.
One such topic was cancer screening and various health insurances coverage as there were
many patients who were economically backward and ethical code of conduct suggest that
everyone is same irrespective of their economic condition. There were many in the campaign
who had lees knowledge about the disease and ways of treatment. The treatment for cancer is
costly and needs extensive palliative care so these insurances and the schemes are important
to be known. Diverse social and nursing interventions helped the patients to engage in health
promotion (Daly, Speedy & Jackson , 2017). The encounter with the patients helped me to
understand their prospective in health education as many were there who had no idea on how
to understand a particular disease. The symptoms of an illness often go undiagnosed due to

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lack of knowledge, so this may be solved by taking proper actions that best suit the ethical
conduct of health and living.
In this health campaign, ethical issues were addressed efficiently. In the campaign,
many patients were from economically backward conditions with less knowledge in health
issues. Therefore being a nurse the ethical decision that I chose was to get critically involved
in decision-making process of the health care model and to ensure that every patient enjoys
the benefit of the health promotion. The decision-making process must be initiated by every
health professional and not only physician as then all kind of principles can be used (Ellis,
2017). Nursing interventions are important in decision making for outcome-based health care.
The nursing interventions make sure that every patient gets basic health need with proper
counselling. Thus, it can be said that nursing is the backbone of health care and with proper
interventions and ethical code, value is added in health promotions.

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References
Daly, J., Speedy, S., & Jackson, D. (2017). Contexts of nursing: An introduction. Elsevier
Health Sciences.
Eldredge, L. K. B., Markham, C. M., Ruiter, R. A., Fernández, M. E., Kok, G., & Parcel, G.
S. (2016). Planning health promotion programs: an intervention mapping approach.
John Wiley & Sons.
Ellis, P. (2017). Understanding ethics for nursing students. Learning Matters.
Wilson-Barnett, J., & Clark, J. M. (Eds.). (2015). Research in health promotion and nursing.
Macmillan International Higher Education.