NR 443 - Week 7 DQ 1: How Do You Define Health. A Graded - Chamberlain College Of Nursing.

NR 443 - Week 7 DQ 1: How Do You Define Health. A Graded - Chamberlain College Of Nursing. WEEK 7 How Do You Define Health? (graded) Think about how you define health. Do you think your definition is universal, or is it specific to your culture and/or beliefs? How might another culture's definition differ? Respond This section lists options that can be used to view responses. Collapse All Print View Show Options Responses Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted. Sort by Read/Unread Sort by Response Sorted Ascending, click to sort descending Sort by Author Sort by Date/Time* (an instructor response) Collapse Mark as Unread How Do You Define Health Instructor Hamilton Email this Author 2/18/2015 8:56:38 PM Hello Class, This TD is a current topic in health care, cultures have certain beliefs, rituals, and ways of life specific to meeting their needs for health promotion and disease prevention…Can you think of a time in your practice when you needed to address an issue pertaining to what the patient needs and what the patient will allow based on cultural preference. Community Health Nurses provide care for individuals, groups, and aggregates from different cultures and subcultures throughout the United States every day. What strategies can you think of or have implemented to address the health care concerns of emerging populations? Real work examples are appreciated if you have any, see you in the threads.~Dr Hamilton Class: You may begin posting in this TD on Sunday, April 12, 2015 for credit. Respond Collapse Mark as Read RE: How Do You Define Health Jessica Parker Email this Author 4/14/2015 4:36:00 PM Instructor Hamilton & Class: I would define health as a person's physical, emotional, and spiritual state. Many times all three of these can be related. Emotional problems can lead to physical problems, spiritual beliefs can lead to reasons to do something, and physical problems can lead to depression or mental unrest. Health is not always the same but "is fluid and changing" (Nies & McEwen, p. 3). Different cultures will have different beliefs/ideas of health. Muslims practice Ramadan in which they fast during daylight. This practice could be detrimental to a diabetic person's health (Nies & McEwen, p. 225). We have many Amish in our area. Amish people have different beliefs about health. They attempt to provide healthcare with natural remedies. They do not generally vaccinate for diseases. There was a measles outbreak in a local Amish community and they were educated of the risks of the disease and many reluctantly agreed to be vaccinated to help prevent the spread of the disease. They do not have health insurance and usually do not regularly visit a physician. It can be difficult to follow-up with care because many do not have phones to reach out to them. Jessica Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2015). NR-443 Week 7: Empowering a Global Community [Online lesson]. Downers Grove, IL: DeVry Education Group. Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2011). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier. Respond Collapse Mark as Read RE: How Do You Define Health Rachel Foreman Email this Author 4/15/2015 2:12:51 PM Jessica, class , and Professor Hamilton, Thank you for your post, I enjoyed reading it. I would have to say that my definition of health is fairly similar to yours. I love the quote about the Muslim culture. We have something similar to this in the Jewish culture. But we interpret the old testament as saying that you have to be in good health in order to fast. You have to be an adult (13 years of age in the Jewish culture), not pregnant, and not an elderly person whom would have trouble if they did not eat. If you are sick and need to eat and/or drink in order to get healthy, you are not encouraged to fast. Rachel Respond Collapse Mark as Unread RE: How Do You Define Health Arthel Tamakloe Email this Author 4/14/2015 8:07:51 PM I will define health as when an individual is structurally and functionally whole and sound includes that which makes a person human