NURS 4250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Promotion, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Injury Prevention

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NURS 4250
• Professor: Adele Vukic

Document Summary

Health promotion and prevention - continuum of care and care planning. Early identification and intervention trauma informed treatment. We need to look at this regarding a mental health perspective. Learn about the interventions that we need in terms of mental health. Make sure that interventions are culturally safe and culturally respective, because western views are rather opposing so we need to learn new relevant ways. Be (cid:373)i(cid:374)dful of (cid:449)hat"s i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d rele(cid:448)a(cid:374)t to that perso(cid:374). The perso(cid:374) (cid:449)ho (cid:455)ou"re (cid:272)ari(cid:374)g for deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)es (cid:449)hat is safe or (cid:374)ot. Put thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374)to (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t superi(cid:373)pose (cid:449)ester(cid:374) healthcare. People go ho(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t get the right (cid:272)are the(cid:455) (cid:374)eed. The right ha(cid:374)d does(cid:374)"t talk to the left ha(cid:374)d. We (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot just treat o(cid:374)e part a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot (cid:373)ake sure the(cid:455)"re getti(cid:374)g the right for(cid:373)s of support at home after the treatment. Mental health is a provincial responsibility, not just federal.