Community health Nurse discussion 2

The community health nurse is gathering information about the growing number of heart disease patients among the lower socioeconomic groups in the community. The community health nurse wants to gather information from the target population to assist in determining the problem and possible solutions.

What is the role of the advisory group as well as representatives from the target and service communities in determining the extent of the growing number of heart disease patients among the lower socioeconomic groups?
The community health nurse knows that social marketing is one tool that can enhance health promotion efforts in the community. What is the goal of social marketing?

The community health nurse has to write a grant for money to assist with dietary education for individuals who have had heart attacks. What would you, as the CHN, include in this grant regarding what the money would be used for, what type of dietary education would be provided, to whom, where and how would this be implemented?

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What is the role of the advisory group as well as representatives from the target and service communities in determining the extent of the growing number of heart disease patients among the lower socioeconomic groups?

According to Rector (2018), the advisory group is the key factor for the success of any intervention in the target and service communities. Also, the advisory group’s goals are interpreting findings and community feedback, performing data analysis and literature reviews, and developing possible solutions for health problems (p.433). Therefore, the advisory group’s roles are collecting data and feedback from the lower socioeconomic community and performing data analysis to identify the tendency of the progress of heart disease. Also, the representatives

from the lower socioeconomic groups should identify the cause of the problem and come up with solutions to help with reducing the number of heart disease patients.

The community health nurse knows that social marketing is one tool that can enhance health promotion efforts in the community. What is the goal of social marketing?

“The goal of social marketing is to explore an additional tool for community health care professions to influence health behaviors and lifestyle choices” (Rector, 2018, p.448). By using social marketing, the health care professions want to use it as a tool to promote healthy lifestyles and provide health education to the public. The overall goal is to improve the community’s health by implanting policies that impact people’s health behaviors and increase the effectiveness of public health practice (Rector, 2018). By using social marketing, the community health nurses intend to improve community health by increasing the population’s awareness of the health issues and promoting changes in healthy lifestyles.

The community health nurse has to write a grant for money to assist with dietary education for individuals who have had heart attacks. What would you, as the CHN, include in this grant regarding what the money would be used for, what type of dietary education would be provided, to whom, where, and how would this be implemented?

“Grants are a reality in public health efforts, which are vital to providing a wide range of programs and services in the community” (Rector, 2018, p.450). Therefore, the grants should be used for community health promotion and education. As a community health nurse, I would suggest that the money should be used to provide education on healthy dietary choices for people who have had or at risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular issues. It is significant to educate people who have had heart attacks about healthy diets to prevent further attacks, but also it is essential to educate people who have the risk to prevent the occurrence of heart attacks. The type of dietary education could include education sessions on healthy food choices for people who had heart attacks, dietary consultation for people who have cardiovascular diseases or at risk of heart diseases, and advertisement of the healthy diet and prevention of heart attacks. The education courses could be provided in the community centers weekly, and dietary consultations could be provided in the community through health fairs for everyone. The effectiveness of teaching could be impacted by the client’s readiness to learn, the client’s perceptions, and the educational environment (Rector, 2018). Therefore, in the education sessions, inviting guest speakers who are modifying their lifestyle to managing their health after a heart attack could increase people’s interest in learning about the choices of a healthy diet. Also, having dietitians comes to the education sessions to provide professional advice could enhance the reliability. Moreover, it is essential to provide dietary education to the family members of the individuals who have had heart attacks because family support could strengthen their abilities to manage their disease. Moreover, distributing flyers about heart-healthy diet choices could help people learn about the management of heart attack. To getting more people to know and attend the education sessions or dietary

P consultations, hanging posters in the community to advertise the available resources is significant.

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What is the role of the advisory group as well as representatives from the target and service communities in determining the extent of the growing number of heart disease patients among the lower socioeconomic groups?

To determine the extent of the impact of heart disease among those of the lower socioeconomic groups would require extensive research about the community. This is where the advisory group and representatives from the target community become an effective tool. Because they know their community well, they would be able to provide information to the community health nurse where most of the heart attack cases would be located. Rector (2018) states “An advisory group can help identify the problem, assist in selecting appropriate intervention to address the problem, and evaluate the intervention chose.” (p. 452). This would save a lot of time, energy, and resources that the community health nurse would be expending in determining the extent of the growing number of heart disease patients (Rector, 2018).

The community health nurse knows that social marketing is one tool that can enhance health promotion efforts in the community. What is the goal of social marketing?

Social marketing takes advantage of commercial marketing practices to influence a target population into changing their behaviors for the better. Their goal is to promote healthy lifestyle choices of the people and improve the social and environmental conditions in which they live in. One example of social marketing is the American Heart Association Go Red for Women campaign, which seeks to bring attention to heart disease risk among women (Rector, 2018).

The community health nurse has to write a grant for money to assist with dietary education for individuals who have had heart attacks. What would you, as the CHN, include in this grant regarding what the money would be used for, what type of dietary education would be provided, to whom, where, and how would this be implemented?

As a community health nurse, I believe there should be a major focus on preventive care. We can prevent and detect serious heart disease before it becomes life-threatening. Preventive care not only can save many lives, but it can also save a lot of money on treatments (Rector, 2018). I would allocate 40% of the grant money to be used in the public school system to educate children and young adults. The education objectives include the benefits of exercising, what type of food is heart-healthy (vegetables, fruits, fiber-rich whole grain, fish, nuts, legumes, and seeds), the effects of heart disease, how to recognize stroke/heart attack, and what to do in case of such an event (How to Help Prevent Heart Disease At Any Age, 2015). Another 30% of the grant money I would allocate to programs for food assistance to individuals or families who may not have access to affordable healthy foods. The last 30% of the grant money would go into cardiac rehabilitation centers for individuals who have suffered from a stroke or heart attack. The goal is to assist them in returning to ADL, educate them on healthy food choices as mentioned above, managing their medications, and exercise counseling base on individual needs (What is Cardiac Rehabilitation, 2016).

References

Rector, C. L. (2018). Community and Public Health Nursing : Promoting the Public’s Health (9th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

What is Cardiac Rehabilitation? (2016). www.heart.org. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/cardiac-rehab/what-is-cardiac-rehabilitation

‌ How to Help Prevent Heart Disease At Any Age. (2015). www.heart.org. https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-lifestyle/how-to-help-prevent-heart-disease-at-any-age