NS4103 Promoting Health and Preventing
Task:
During your design, identify and discuss skills you need to communicate empower and promote behavioural change among the client group and make these clear within your poster.
During your design discuss health promotion/public health approaches and theory(s) used to inform the design of your poster and why. (eg educative, skill based or structural).
During your design, examine some of the challenges/benefits in relation to chosen health promotion approaches, and how the nurse could overcome these.
During your design, discuss how you intend to evaluate the impact of your intervention and indicators of positive impact (eg questionnaires, skill based, focus group etc).
You are required to produce present health promotion poster targeted at specific current public health issue and client group.
Your summative Must be based on topic you presented during your formative assessment and agreed by the module tutor (1500 word equivalent).
Your poster Must be aimed at a population in your own field of practice and must cover a current public health issue. Your poster Must meet Los 1-5.
1). Demonstrate knowledge of healthy lifestyles across life course.
2). Discuss the relevance and application of epidemiological data related to the health and illness of populations and minority groups.
3). Recognise indicators of healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and the link between cultural norms and values
4). Identify the factors influencing behaviour change and empowerment.
5). Develop a range of effective interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills to assist in the health promotion of adults, children and young people with a variety of health promotion needs.