Collaboration Café: Holistic Health Promotion
Health promotion models offer meaningful frameworks for application in advanced nursing practice. Consideration of the variables that influence health is essential for effective health promotion. Through a holistic lens, the MSN-prepared nurse can employ health promotion models to engage with others and improve health and well-being.
 
Create a short case scenario involving a MSN-prepared nurse providing health promotion and preventive education for a client regarding health concerns involving one of the body systems discussed during this week’s lesson.
 
Describe the health promotion model or concepts that you would apply in this situation and why.
 
Identify two variables that would influence the health promotional efforts and explain the impact of each.
 
Explain how competency in advanced physical assessment, pathophysiology, and pharmacology will facilitate the health promotion process.