Health Promotion and Wellness Assessment

Health Promotion and Wellness Assessment

Name: Date:

Overview: Health promotion and the wellness connection

This information will be included in your Assignment Module 5-1 Family Health Assessment. Please use your interview family for this assignment

Health Promotion and maintaining family wellness is beyond preventing illness. Love (2010) states wellness is a state of optimal health to which each of us can aim regardless of age, physical limitation, & income level.

Instructions:

1. Identify areas needing intervention by using the using the modified Love to Live Well Assessment below to highlight suggestions you may make for your interview family.

2. Use your interview family and identify areas for making health and wellness promotion.

3. Describe these recommendations for health promotion in detail.

Interventions

Using the using the modified Love to Live Well Assessment below, identify and elaborate on areas your interview family may need health promotion or wellness interventions. Write a minimum of 200 words in two or three paragraphs for this assignment. APA is not required. If you cite sources please add references per APA 6th edition. You may use this document or a separate paper to complete this assignment.

1. Describe your overall recommendations for health promotion or wellness interventions for your interview family. Please list two or more interventions in comprehensive detail.

2. Create a concise patient teaching plan for communicating and educating the Health Promotion/Wellness recommendations/interventions to your interview family? What will you say? How will you provide the information? For example, will you use handouts or a video? Will you speak to the whole family or just certain members.

3. Briefly reflect on this experience and the lesson you have learned.

Health Promotion and Wellness Assessment

Modified from the Love to Live Well Assessment

Place a mark for each item to indicate that it is an area your interview family may need an intervention for Health Promotion and Wellness

Physical
proper use of medical self care & the medical system personal responsibility to safely build physical strength, flexibility generally feel good most of the time ability to care for oneself without assistance

ability to move naturally throughout the day without prolonged pain body is in good overall condition

Emotional
ability to cope with stress ability to live & work independently but realize the value of seeking others’ support & assistance generally enthusiastic about self & life awareness & acceptance of one’s feelings able to form interdependent relationships (mutual trust, commitment, & respect) ability to realistically assess one’s limitations ability to identify obstacles to emotional stability ability to understand monitor one’s own reactions ability to express & positively manage feelings effectively
Intellectual
ability to identify problems, solve problems, & direct behavior knowledge increased through reading books, newspapers, & magazines as a critical consumer of information plenty of creative, mental stimulation by challenging the mind