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HEALTH NURSING
ROMULO D. LOPEZ JR, RN LPT
THEORIES/APPROACHES
HEALTH BELIEF MODEL (HBM)
Health Belief Model
PURPOSE:
PERCEIVED SEVERITY
PERCEIVED BENEFITS
● one‘s belief in the ability of an advised action to reduce the health risk
or seriousness of a given condition.
CONCEPT
PERCEIVED BARRIERS
CUES TO ACTION
SELF-EFFICACY
PRIMARY PREVENTION:
● an action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient stage and
prevents complications.
● domain of CLINICAL MEDICINE.
● an imperfect tool in th transmission of disease.
● more expensive than primary prevention
TERIARY PREVENTION:
● Personal perceptions and cognitions of any given situation or context that can
facilitate or impede behavior.
● Include perceptions of options available, demand characteristics and
aesthetic features of the environment in which given health promoting is
proposed to take place.
● Situational influences may have direct or indirect influences on health
behavior.
SUBCONCEPTS OF HPM
Commitment to Plan of Action
● Competing demands are those alternative behaviors over which individuals have low
control because there are environmental contingencies such as work or family care
responsibilities. Competing preferences are alternative behaviors over which
individuals exert relatively high control, such as choice of ice cream or apple for a
snack
SUBCONCEPTS OF HPM
Health-Promoting Behavior
● Behaviors, practices, lifestyle, environmental factors are determined affecting health problem
identified in phase 2.
● This assessment facilitate planner to prioritize behavior which will be targeted in intervention
program.
○ Behavioral diagnosis analyzes behaviors that influence the problem identified in phase 1 and
2.
○ Environmental diagnosis analyzes physical and social environment that would affect the
behavior of the individual.
● Non behavioral factors include factors such as climate, workplace, availability and adequacy of
health institutions.
Phases of PRECEDE/PROCEED Framework
Reinforcing factors
● Reinforcing factors are feedbacks from others which may be positive or negative; continued
reward, incentive can motivate repetition of certain behavior. It includes:
§ Reward/Punishment
§ Peer influence
§ Teacher
§ Family etc.
Enabling factors
★ They are social and environmental factors that enable motivation attain
specific behavior.
§ Availability
§ Access
§ Health related laws
§ Resources
§ Skills
Phases of PRECEDE/PROCEED Framework
General: To promote and maintain the health of the school and populace by providing
comprehensive quality nursing care.
Specific:
1. Health Advocacy
2. Health and nutrition assessment including other screening procedures such as
vision and hearing
3. Supervision of the health and safety of the school plant.
4. Treatment of common ailments and attending to emergency cases.
5. Referrals and follow-up of pupils and personnel
6. Home visits
7. Community outreach like attending community assemblies and organizing school
community health councils.
8. Recording and reporting accomplishments.
9. Monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects.
SCHOOL HEALTH NURSING
Functions:
4. Substance Abuse- The use of alcohol and other drugs is associated with problems in
schools, injuries and violence, and motor vehicle deaths.
5. HIV, AIDS- School-base HIV and AIDS Education and prevention program is an
information dissemination campaign to educate the general Population on the risks of HIV
and AIDS.
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES
★ Physical Education - Sedentary lifestyle is associated with obesity, hypertension,
heart disease and diabetes
- Regular Physical activity helps build and maintain healthy bones and
muscles.
➔ Health services
1. Health Screening- one of the objective of the school health nursing program in
the Philippines is to detect early signs and symptoms of illness, disabilities and
deviations from normal.
Standard 2. Diagnosis
Standard 8. Education
➔ School nurse attains knowledge and competency that reflects current school
nursing practice.
➔ MS. MAGDALENA VALENZUELA – she instituted the INDUSTRIAL NURSING UNIT of the
Philippine Nurses Association on November 11, 1950.
➔ MS. PERLA GORRES – from the Philippine Manufacturing Company (PMC) served as the
first chairperson of the said unit.
➔ MS. ANITA SANTOS – was elected as first president on August 19, 1964. She paved way to
the modification in the name of the organization to Occupational Health Nurses Association
of the Philippines, Inc. on November 12, 1966.