Health Promotion and Nursing: Collaboration, Challenges, and Solutions

This report delves into the critical role of nurses in health promotion, highlighting their expertise in areas such as healthy habits, stress management, and self-care. The report emphasizes the significance of collaboration within the health promotion family to ensure effective health promotion. It explores the importance of teamwork and partnerships in improving the quality of healthcare provided to patients, including the role of communication in avoiding medical errors. Furthermore, the report identifies various challenges nurses encounter, such as communication barriers, patient trust issues, cultural differences, and financial constraints, and proposes potential solutions like using interpreters, building patient trust, and adapting health promotion approaches. The report also examines different health promotion approaches based on patient needs and lifestyles, advocating for strong support for health promotion officers to ensure a healthier society.

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Health Promotion and Nursing
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Health Promotion and Nursing
Nurses play a significant role in promoting health in society. They are knowledgeable in
various health-promoting undertakings such as healthy eating habits, stress management,
maintaining healthy relationships, and self-care. To ensure valid health promotion, therefore, a
good relationship among the health promotion family is vital. This paper hence focuses on the
importance of collaboration among the health promotion family and describes the challenges that
nurses face in their workplaces and the possible solutions to those challenges.
Collaboration and its Importance in Nursing Practice
Collaboration is a process whereby two or more people or an institution form a
partnership and work together towards achieving a common goal. A successful collaboration
process requires people to work together as a team and join efforts to complete the desired task
or accomplish a set goal.
Collaboration in nursing practice boosts the quality of health that is provided to the
people. Communication among the medical staff helps avoid the unnecessary medical errors that
occur while health specialists are administering health care services to the patients (Sullivan,
Kiovsky, et al., 2015). Therefore, working in partnership with the community, the health
organization, and health caregivers is very vital to ensure that quality health is promoted.
In addition, the practice of collaboration in health promotion family promotes
competency. Roles and responsibilities are shared among the nursing team according to the
individual's area of specialization. Collaboration practice also involves involving the community
in the designing, implementing, and evaluating practices of the healthcare projects being carried
out in the community.

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Challenges that Nurses Face and How to Overcome Them
In their line of duty, nurses face several challenges that hinder them doing their job
effectively. They face communication challenges while interacting with the patients or the
patient's relatives (Griffiths, et al., (2014). In cases where there is a communication barrier, the
nurses should use an interpreter who will help translate what the patient is saying. In some other
instances, the patient may lose trust in the nurse. The nurse, therefore, should assure the patient
of privacy to gain the patient's confidence.
Potential Challenges Related to Communication, Development Stage, and Cultural Context
of a Family.
Health promotion processes are faced with various challenges. One of the challenges is
the language barrier. In some other instances, the patient might not be willing to talk to the nurse
openly about his or her health problems because he lacks trust in the nurse. Some patients are
also rude and treat the nurses with disrespect.
Moreover, some cultural norms and beliefs also affect the efficient provision of quality
health (Betancourt, et al., 2016). In cases where the patient comes from a family setting that
needs critical care and its development state is low, they may lack enough funds to take care of
the sick patient. The nurses will be forced to offer healthcare to the patient on credit or fail to
provide health care at all.
Health Promotion Approach
The health promotion approaches that nurses use change according to the family setting
and the sickness the patient is suffering from. The nurses can use a medical approach in a case
where the patient's illness not related to his or lifestyle. In a case where the patient's illness is

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related to the patient's lifestyle, the nurse can use a behavioral approach. Examples of lifestyle
diseases include cholera, typhoid, and sexually transmitted infections.
Conclusion
Promoting health in our societies is very vital as it helps us to adopt responsible and
quality lifestyles. Health promotion officers, therefore, should be supported by all means because
they play a significant role in ensuring the society is as healthy as possible. However, although
some barriers hinder valid health promotion, when people work together as a team, the
challenges are done away with.

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