Health promotion is critical in the nursing profession. In nursing promoting health is discovering the internal motivation of the patient for them to achieve optimal health. Nurses teach patients the importance of daily exercise, proper nutrition, lifestyle modification, and adhering to their daily-prescribed medications. However, health promotion is a complex notion that is open to multiple interpretations by individual patients.
Several factors need to be considered by nurses when imparting health promotion strategies to patients.
1.Acknowledge that individual’s health is not only a personal responsibility because it is largely influenced by physical, social, cultural, and economic environments in which we live and work.
2.Consider that health education is an essential component of health promotion.
3.Know that health promotion are planned activities for the patients and patients needs to be motivated to follow through these plans
4.Consider individual behavior and lifestyle, social and individual determinants, health services, and genetic predispositions as an important factors in planning for health promotion
Nurses who constantly encourages patients to take responsibility of their own health without considering the social and environmental circumstances that contributed for them to become ill is essentially defective. According to the World Health Organization, health promotion is an integral concept for those individuals who acknowledge changing their lifestyle and conditions of living in order to promote health. It is imperative therefore, that nurses approach health promotion using a holistic view of the patient.
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