1. Health Promotion Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi
Najah National University
Faculty of Nursing
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

2. Unit 1. Foundations of Health Promotion
1.1     Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention
Define the term health
Examine the healthy people 2010 comitiment to a single, overarching purpose: to promote health and prevent illness, disabilities, and premature death
Explain the differences between health, illness, disease, disability and premature death
Compare the three levels of prevention (primary, secondary and tertiary) with the levels of service provision available across the lifespan
Describe the importance of research and the nurse´s role in the research process to the promotion of health for individuals and populations
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

3. Unit 1. Foundations of Health Promotion
1.2. Changing Populations and Health
Define the terms ethnicity, process of ethnicization, ethnic group, minority group, race and culture
Explain the functions of ethnicity, values, and value orientation
Identify prevalent health problems of Palestinian people compared to Americans
Describe selected health-related aspects of the culture of Palestinian people compared to Americans
Describe culturally competent approaches for HIV and AIDS prevention
Identify global, national, and nurses work meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

4. Unit 1. Foundations of Health Promotion
1.3.         Health Policy and the Delivery system
Discuss key developments in the history of health care that influenced the philosophical basis of American health care and separated preventive from curative measures. Compared to Palestinians
Differentiate between private and public sector functions and responsibilities in the delivery of health care
Describe the mechanisms by which health care in the United State is financed in both private and public sectors. Compare to Palestinians
Discuss the nurse’s role in influencing health policy
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

5. Unit 1. Foundations of Health Promotion
1.4. The Therapeutic Relationship
Describe the process of values clarification
Examine the elements and process of communication
Analyse differences between functional and dysfunctional communication
Apply knowledge of values clarification and communication to the development of the helping relationship
Develop strategies to promote the therapeutic relationships with a diverse population across clinical settings, contexts, and nursing roles
Understand the significance of the therapeutic relationship in all aspects of clinical practice   
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

6. 1.5. Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion
Discuss ethics as humanizing that is pertaining to the development of the whole person
Describe the relationship of norm to value
Describe three traditional theoretic approaches in philosophical ethics: egoism, Kantianism, and utilitarianism
Describe five traditional theoretic approaches in theological ethics: Jewish, Catholic, Protestant
Describe three contemporary theoretic approaches in philosophical ethics: Frankena´s theory of obligation, Firth’s ideal observer theology, Rawls´justice as fairness, care ethics, and feminist ethics
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

7. 1.5. Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion
Define the nature of the discipline of health care ethics today
Describe the role and limitations of professional codes of ethics in nursing today
Identify the principles of ethics stressed in professional codes of ethics for nursing today
Contrast the influences of ethics versus laws in the nursing profession and health promotion today
Discuss factors to consider in moral decision making
Describe the concept of integrity-preserving compromise and its relationship to moral agency of the nurse
Delineate a method for analysing ethical dilemmas in health promotion
Discuss paradigmatic cases of ethical dilemmas in health promotion
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

8. Unit 2. Assessment for Health Promotion
2.1 Health Promotion and the Individual
What is health promotion
Define the framework of functional health patterns as described by Gordon
Describe the use of the functional health pattern framework in assessing the individual throughout the lifespan
Give examples of the following categories of behaviours within the health patterns: functional, potentially dysfunctional, and actually dysfunctional
Describe aspects to consider while diagnosing the risk factors or the contributing etiological factors of actually or potentially dysfunctional health patterns
Discuss planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing interventions in health promotion with the individual
Develop a specific health promotion plan based on an assessment of an individual
Unit 2. Assessment for Health Promotion
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

9. 2.2. Health Promotion and the Family
Describe the use of the functional health-pattern framework in assessing families throughout the lifespan
Give examples of the clinical data to be collected in each health pattern during the different family developmental phases
Give examples of the following behavioural changes within the health pattern of families: functional, potentially dysfunctional, and actually dysfunctional
Describe developmental and cultural characteristics of the family to consider while identifying risk factors or etiological factors of potentially or actually dysfunctional health patterns
Discuss planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing interventions in health promotion with families
Develop a specific healthy-promotion plan based on a family assessment; nursing diagnosis, and contributing risks or etiological factors
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

10. 2.3. Health Promotion and the Community
Describe the 11 functional health patterns and explain how they are used as a basis of data collection in assessment of the community
Identify characteristics of the community to consider for risk factors and developmental aggregates of potential or actual dysfunction health patterns
Identify methods of community data collection and sources of information
Describe a method of planned change for the community
Describe planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing interventions in health promotion with communities
Develop a specific health-promotion plan based on community assessment, nursing diagnosis, and contributing factors
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

11. Unit 3 Intervention for health promotion
 3.1 Screening
Define screening and its relationship to preventive health care intervention
  Identify the advantages and disadvantages of the screening process
Define the specific criteria that determine a screen able disease
Discuss the health care and economic issues related to the screening process that result in ethical implications
Explain sensitivity and specificity as they relate to the efficacy of screening
Identify the broad range of community resources included in and affected by the screening process
Describe the nursing role in the screening process
Identify critical questions pertaining to culture and ethics within the health care system
Discuss how a collaborative partnership may assist a community in the attainment of healthy people 2010 goals
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

12. 3.2. Health education Define health education
Describe the aims of health education
Discuss learning principles that affect health education
Apply teaching and learning concepts to teaching the family
Describe the health belief model and behaviour-change process
Describe the use of social marketing in planning health education programs
Describe a system for planning health education programs
Identify the steps in a administering health education programs
Identify the steps in preparing a health-teaching plan
Select content and learning strategies appropriate to the health learning needs of a target audience
List ways to evaluate a person’s progress
State personal plans for developing teaching skills
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

13. 3.3 Nutrition counselling
Recognize healthy people 2010 nutrition objectives
List the leading nutrition-related causes of death in the united state and identify the dietary factors associated with each cause- Compare to Palestinians
Summarize the nutrition recommendations contained in the dietary guidelines for American- Compare to Palestinians
List the number of servings and serving sizes recommended in the Food Guide Pyramid
Discuss U.S. food aid programs for the poor and older adults- compare to Palestinians
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

14. 3.4 Exercise
Explain the physical activity and fitness goals of Healthy People 2000 and the progress made toward these goals
Describe how physical activity positively influences physical and psychological health
Identify the benefits of physical activity throughout the aging process
Describe the prescriptions for and benefits of daily physical activity, aerobic exercise, and resistance training
Discuss how exercise can be combined with mindfulness to facilitate body awareness and self-inquiry
Explain the interventions to promote exercise adherence and compliance
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

15. 3.5. Stress management Differenciate stress and stressor
Differentiate eustress and distress
Evaluate potential physical, psychological, social, and behavioral stressors
Identify pathophysiology of the stress response and effects on health and illness
Analyze primary and secondary appraisals of stress
Discuss the nurses´s role in stress management
Propose stress-management interventions that can be used in clinical practice
Develop a nursing care plan for stress management
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

16. 3.6. Holistic Health Strategies
·  Define holistic health
Explain how holistic health care differs from conventional health care
Describe the philosophical base of energy medicine
Describe the origin and practice of selected holistic health strategies
Explain the importance of self-exploration for individuals and healthy care professionals
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

17. Unit 4 planning health promotion at local level
To understand the need for planning
To know what information is needed to plan activities
To be able to set aims and objectives for health promotion activities
To identify target groups
To identify and select options for health promotion activities
To plan evaluation
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

18. Unit 5. Evaluation of health promotion
To understan how evaluation is used to improve health promotion
To appreciate the managerial context of evaluation
To understand the difference between outcome and process evaluation
To choose appropriate outcomes for evaluation
To understand the difference between monitoring and evaluation
To recognise costs involved in evaluation
To be willing to act on results of evaluation
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden

19. 6. challenges as we enter the new millennium 4. 1
6.challenges as we enter the new millennium 4.1. Health promotion in the twenty-first century: throughout the lifespan and throughout the world
·        Identify global trends and directions for health promotions and disease prevention
Discuss the values, goals, and targets of Health for All in the twenty-first century
Describe major health-promotion priorities 2000 through 2010 that influence nursing practice, research, and health care policy
Summarize activities across public and private sectors that reflect the Healthy People 2010 objectives
Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi Devision of Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology University of Linkoping Sweden