Chapter 8The Health Process and Self-Care of the Nurse.ppt

Lifestyle Behavior Change (cont’d) Strategies for lifestyle behavior change Person assumes different activities in multiple aspects of his or her life There are no miracle drugs available for helping people change long-standing patterns of living Lifestyle Behavior Change (cont’d) Nurse can best assist in promoting, changing health behaviors by: Providing education Facilitating changes Sustaining positive health behaviors Lifestyle Behavior Change (cont’d) Strategies, techniques to help clients modify their behavior include: Consciousness raising Self-reevaluation Environmental reevaluation Self-liberation Social liberation Lifestyle Behavior Change (cont’d) Strategies, techniques to help clients modify their behavior include: Helping relationships Stimulus control Counter conditioning Reinforcement management Health Patterning Models for health patterning Concept of vital life energy, or chi, has been part of Eastern religion, culture Blockage in energy flow results in energy imbalances, areas of body with energy deficits, producing symptoms or disease Leddy’s practice theory of energy Martha Rogers introduced concept of person as an energy field Health Patterning (cont’d) Health patterning modalities Leddy’s model identifies integrative nursing interventions to promote health, healing Tai Chi, Reiki, relaxation, yoga… Nurse must be educated about how each complementary intervention may affect client’s physiologic well-being, potential adverse effects Implications of the Nurse’s View of Health for Role Performance Integrative world view supports belief that nurses work with people who display areas of strength, weakness in health pattern manifestations at specific time Nurse must learn, use self-care strategies to promote her or his own health Implications of the Nurse’s View of Health for Role Performance (cont’d) Self-care of the nurse Stressful work environment Pressure put on nurses by external organizational forces that determine work conditions Distres