Health Promotion

Collaboration Café MSN-prepared Nurse as an Educator
During the Week Three learning activities, the role of the MSN-prepared nurse as an educator is evident. Whether providing education to individuals, families, or groups, improving the knowledge surrounding health and illness is an integral component of advanced nursing practice, with health promotion often being the goal.

With learning from Week Three regarding the respiratory system in mind, as well as concepts surrounding health promotion from the previous weekly lesson, respond to the following:

Describe a scenario involving either a chronic or acute illness involving the respiratory system that is different from the Shadow Health patient scenario.
What health promotion model or concepts would you keep in mind as you initiate education, and why?
Share 2 questions an MSN-prepared nurse could ask which would aid in assessing the patient’s educational preparation and readiness to learn.
Provide feedback to your peers for considerations related to age appropriate and culturally inclusive questions which would demonstrate an open mind and respect for differences. Advanced Health Assessment: Respiratory System
The respiratory assessment is a significant gauge of the overall health of a client. Gaining an understanding of normal lung sounds is important, because when adventitious sounds are produced, further assessment of cause will need to be explored. Including a detailed medical, lifestyle, and occupational history is extremely important for possible risk factors. Education of risk factors and how to decrease or eliminate them are a part of the nursing role.

Physical assessment of the chest uses the four basic examination techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.

The last step of the physical assessment of the chest includes auscultation for both normal and abnormal breath sounds, which are categorized as bronchial, Broncho vesicular, vesicular, and adventitious (crackles or rales and wheezes or rhonchi). It is important to note that the location of the sound also determines if it is a normal or abnormal finding. For example, the presence of bronchial sounds in the area that you would normally hear vesicular sounds is an abnormal finding. Therefore, it is necessary to not only be able to identify each sound but also to know where each sound should, or should not, be heard.