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CHILDREN
• Nutrition
• Dental check-ups
• Rest and exercise
• Immunizations
• Safety promotion and injury control
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9. ADOLESCENTS
• Communicating with the teen.
• Hormonal changes
• Nutrition
• Exercise and rest
• Peer group influences
• Self concept and body image
• Sexuality
• Safety promotion and accident prevention
10. ELDERS
• Adequate sleep - Drug Management
• Exercise - Appropriate use of alcohol
• -Dental/ oral health - Foot health
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2. PREVENTING ILLNESS
(DISEASE PREVENTION)
> The GOAL of illness prevention programs
is to maintain optimal health by preventing
disease.
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Levels of Prevention:
1. Primary Prevention
2. Secondary Prevention
3. Tertiary Prevention
1. Primary- is true prevention
- it precedes disease or dysfunction and its applied to clients
considered to be physically & emotionally healthy.
- includes all health promotion efforts as well as wellness activities
that focus on maintaining & improving the general health of
individuals, families & communities.
2. Secondary
- Focuses on individuals who are experiencing
health problems or illness & who are @
risk for developing complications or
worsening condition.
- Activities are directed at diagnosis and
prompt intervention thereby reducing the
severity & enabling the client to return to
a normal level of health as early as
possible.
- Includes screening techniques & treating
early stages of disease to limit disability.
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3. Tertiary
- occurs when the defect or disability is
permanent & irreversible. It involves
minimizing the effects of long term disease or
disability by interventions directed at
preventing complications & deterioration.
- activities are directed at rehabilitation rather
than diagnosis and treatment.
- care @ this level aims to help clients achieve
as high a level of functioning as possible,
despite the limitations caused by illness or
impairment. It I Involves preventing further
disability or reduced functioning.
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3. Restoring Health
(Curative/ Rehabilitative Care)
> Focuses on the ill client and extends from early
detection of disease through helping the client
during the recovery period.
Nursing activities include the following:
1. providing direct care to the ill person, such as
administering medications, baths, and specific procedures
and treatments.
2. performing diagnostic and assessment procedures such
as measuring BP and examining feces for occult blood.
3. consulting with other health care professionals about client
problems.
4. teaching clients about recovery activities such as
exercise that will accelerate recovery after a stroke.
5.rehabilitating clients to their optimal functional level
following physical or mental illness, injury or chemical
addiction.
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On Facilitating coping
– Nurses facilitate client & family coping with altered
functions, life, crisis, & death.
– Nurses provide care to both clients & SO during the
terminal illness
– Nurses are becoming, more active in hospice
programs which are developed to assist individuals &
their families in preparing for death & living as
comfortably as possible until death occurs.
Institutions:
Hospice
Long term nursing facilities
Nursing Homes