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How would you define health/wellness? What is the nurse’s role in promoting health/wellness? Please describe 3 specific actions that you as the nurse can do to promote health and wellness in your patients.

Answer 1

Ans) The World Health Organization defines health as "not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being".

- Wellness incorporates the power of choice, meaning an individual has the ability to take action towards optimal health.

- Through the practice of health promotion, nurses provide patients the information they need to manage and ultimately improve their health. A nurse's work environment makes it easy to take advantage of a routine interaction with a patient and use it as an opportunity to educate.
Nurses promote health and wellness:
- Similar to the nurse's participation in health screening and health promotion programs, nurses often assist, instruct and coach clients with disease prevention activities such as an exercise routine and other life style changes that can prevent disease and enhance the learners' level of health and wellness.

- Community nurses can be found running wellness clinics, coordinating emergency preparedness for disaster relief, or treating injuries and illnesses.

By helping whole communities, community nurses act as educators, disease and injury prevention specialists, research scientists, community advocates, emergency preparedness experts, public health liaison, and healthcare professionals.