Week 6 Responses- Agavni Asatryan
NURS 601A FNP BRIDGE COURSE
Response to Evan Pacleb
Hello Evan, I support you in your discussion. You have made a great point that as advanced practice nurses, we play a powerful advocate in our patients and can appropriately assess where the needs of the client are. Another key point in your discussion is the example of someone experiencing death in the family, whereby you have clearly stated that as a nurse, you would focus on behavioral or mental health interventions that can alleviate the stress that the family is going through, and this was great. Seaward (2017), states that stress management is one of the crucial life skills that everyone should possess for a better and healthy living. When dealing with someone experiencing death, advanced practice nurses should allow the family member to freely talk about the deceased person, whereby they can talk about the best memories they shared. Some family members may express guilt for not having enough time during the last days of the deceased or not have helped the deceased sufficiently, so the advanced practice nurse should help the family member by encouraging them to let go of the guilt and focus on living a life that will please the diseased person (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele & Robinson, 2018).
References
Kaakinen, J. R., Coehlo, D. P., Steele, R., & Robinson, M. (2018). Family health care nursing: Theory, practice, and research. FA Davis.
Seaward, B. L. (2017). Managing stress. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Response to Csilla Bede
Hello Csilla, I concur with you in your discussion. You have clearly stated that APRN focus on the relationships between family life health and illness, and they assist families and family members in achieving and maintaining well-being. Also, family nurses work with families that need help dealing with changes, family development, and family transitions. Your discussion is very informative and educational. To enhance family development, families need to ensure healthy living, and some of the interventions that advanced practice nurses can advocate to achieve this include eating healthy diets like increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and minimizing the consumption of fatty foods (Newman & Newman, 2017). Another intervention would be encouraging the individual family members to engage in physical activities to curb the onset of infections like obesity. While coping with family transitions, individual family members may develop stress, and the advanced practice nurses should intervene to help them deal with the stress. The nurses should spend time with the individual family members to prevent cases of isolation that may increase stress levels. Additionally, the advanced practice nurse may encourage the individual to take a nature walk, and this may help in minimizing endorphins, which are known to cause stress (Revell, 2019).
References
Revell, S. (2019). Walk and talk therapy: a pluralistic inquiry into practice, perceptions, and client experiences in the UK (Doctoral dissertation, Canterbury Christ Church University).
Newman, B. M., & Newman, P. R. (2017). Development through life: A psychosocial approach. Cengage Learning.