Health Promotion Nursing Diagnosis Care Plan

 

Health promotion is an integral part of nursing care wherein the nurse guides the patient and family towards improving their well-being and actualizing their health potential. According to NANDA, a health promotion nursing diagnosis requires evidence of a readiness to enhance health behaviors and the expression of desire and motivation to perform actions to improve health.

Health promotion also aims to prevent disease from occurring or becoming worse. The following nursing care plans contain health promotion nursing diagnoses that can be useful to enhance a person, family, or community’s health status.

Health Seeking Behaviors. This nursing diagnosis can be applied to clients who are actively seeking various ways to change their personal health habits, which may also include altering their environment to achieve a better level of health. 

Clients who can benefit from a nursing care plan that focuses on motivating health seeking behaviors may have the perception that achieving optimum health is one of life’s primary purposes.

Health seeking behaviors may include stress management, smoking cessation, weight loss or weight gain, proper diet, adequate exercise, safe sex practices, and actions to reduce the risk for stroke, diabetes, and other grave illnesses.

Nursing Diagnosis: Health Seeking Behaviors related to the prevention of status asthmaticus or asthma attack as evidenced by the patient’s verbalization of wanting to prevent asthma attacks in the future and asking questions about asthma triggers and how to avoid them

Desired Outcome: The patient will verbalize that he/she has understood asthma triggers and preventive measures for asthma attacks.

Nursing References

Ackley, B. J., Ladwig, G. B., Makic, M. B., Martinez-Kratz, M. R., & Zanotti, M. (2020). Nursing diagnoses handbook: An evidence-based guide to planning care. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.