Health Promition

1. How can nurses impact the adult obesity epidemic now facing the United States? What key motivators might you mention to encourage a healthy lifestyle?

Address such issues as healthy food choices, daily activity, encouraging parents as role models, discouraging eating and watching TV, sedentary lifestyles, and limiting fast foods. What therapeutic communication skills are required when teaching an obese adult? 2. Accidents are one of the major causes of death in children between infancy and school-age. What environmental and social influences can cause injury, illness, or death in school-aged children? Discuss some environmental safety techniques parents should consider (e.g., safe sleep environment; burn, poison, and aspiration prevention; water and bicycle safety; lead concerns; and environmental contaminant hazards). How does the nurse speak with the parents and teach using therapeutic communication, and what type of relationship is established?