Healthy People
The healthy person 2020/2030 is a national effort that focuses on setting objectives and goals to improve the well-being and health of people in US. The initiative aims in creating in new challenges while establishing lessons acquired from the past. It focuses on decreasing preventable injury and death with quantitative and ambitious objectives to disease prevention and health promotion nationally.
Health promotion and Disease Prevention
Healthy people enable users to acquire changes of data in US population health status while informing on objectives and goals set for each decade. The section of foundation in health measures are used to follow up on improvement of health in a broad manner among the population (People, 2020). These measures have been used as the cornerstone in Healthy people over the years as they reflect on impact of interventions and actions that are implemented to attain the goals and objectives of Healthy People.
This initiative aims at achieving high-quality and long lives that are free from preventable illnesses, injury, premature death and disability. Health promotion and disease prevention are measures that will help in achieving equity, improving individuals’ health while eliminating disparities. This will aid in creating a physical and social environment that overall promotes health. The initiative promotes the quality of life, healthy behaviors and health development in all stages of life.
Nurses Role in Health Promotion
The most essential role of nurses in health promotion and disease prevention is being an educator. Nurses spend much time with patients while providing guidance on dietary, medication, nutrition, safety and immunization. Consistently, nurses work to minimize diseases such as diabetes, stroke, pulmonary illnesses, and heart diseases. They achieve this by a variation of tactics which involve education, ensuring safety hazards at home, workplace or community and risk prevention factor.
Nurses are also considered as advocates of patients as they navigate through the health care system. They can work informally or formally as case managers. The nurses have formal roles is of being case managers as their only role is helping families and patients navigate in the health care system. Additionally, they work informally with families and patients to ensure they attain holistic care that is required for optimum outcomes. The nurses are consultants in organizations and communities which defines the needs of the population in health care while promoting community activities and development for the nationals. Generally, nurses are considered as primary caregivers who offer help in different venues. Mainly, they give hands-on health care.
Reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease involves various conditions that are related to atherosclerosis that is a condition which develops substances known as plaque which builds in the artery walls. The buildup makes the arteries narrow which make it hard for the flow of blood. This later causes a stroke or heart attack.
Interventions
Fortunately, there are various interventions that individuals apply to decrease the chances of heart diseases. First, individuals should learn to control blood pressure which a major risk to heart diseases. It is important that blood pressure is regularly checked at least every year for adults and often for individuals with high blood pressure. Adjusting the lifestyle is important in controlling and preventing blood pressure. Also maintain the triglyceride and cholesterol levels in control to avoid coronary diseases by lowering cholesterol. Ensure that you maintain a healthy weight by not having obesity or being overweight. Mostly this are linked to diabetes, high blood pressure, triglyceride, and blood cholesterol. Other interventions involves regular exercising, eating healthy, avoid smoking, limit alcohol consumption, managing diabetes, stress, and adequate sleep.
Nurse Interventions
There are major principles that nurses follow in case management approach. The nurse’s preventive care is implemented in relation to evidence according to cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines. This are adopted locally for individual clinical practitioners nationally, where they apply the treatment goals set to decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
The efforts of prevention are targeted on those who benefit most with vascular diseases those with a higher risk of developing diseases for patients and family members taking into account the risk factors and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases. The strategies of population have a potential of achieve high reduction risks entirely in populations with little modification of risk factors.
The families of patients are included in the preventive efforts and not only focusing on the patient (Wilczynski et al., 2007). Members close to the patients are likely to develop cardiovascular disease based on genetic factors, life style and assortative mating in spouses. The preventive programs have a flexible and appropriate setting that allows easier access of people in a community which targets in interventions mostly in deprived and vulnerable groups.
In summary, the Healthy People focuses on improving cardiovascular quality of health through detection, treatment and prevention of risk factors in strokes and heart attack. Also they focus on treatment and identification of stroke and heart attack prevention on repetitive cardiovascular events through death reduction from cardiovascular diseases. In future, they should focus on emerging issues that affect cardiovascular disease and how this can be controlled.
References
Berra.K, Houston.MN, Catriona.J, (2011). Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. Volume:26. Retrieved from: https://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?Article_ID=1211772&Journal_ID=54006&Issue_ID=1211735
People, H. (2020). Maternal, infant, and child health. Healthy People 2020.
Wilczynski, N. L., Marks, S., & Haynes, R. B. (2007). Search strategies for identifying qualitative studies in CINAHL. Qualitative health research, 17(5), 705-710.