Introduction to Family Centred Nursing
Discuss about the Family Centred Nursing In Health Care.
Family centred nursing is defined by the appeasement health care service that is experienced by the families. It is a partnership approach to the service providers or collaboration of the health care and families (Shields 2015). Both the families and the health care service provider effort together in order to provide efficient care to the families with need and make plan and program to improve the service in an effective manner. The main purpose of family centred nursing is to provide optimal health care service delivery. The health care professionals provide important information to the families regarding the process of improving health condition of individual and well-being. In order to provide effective service, the service providers need to understand the strength and weakness of the families and the individuals, so that they can understand the central need of the families (Trajkovski et al. 2015). In this way they provide service that fulfil the requirements of the families. Another purpose of the family centred nursing is to encourage and facilitate the families to provide support to the families with need and build a family-to family network. Many effective programs are arranged by the service providers in order to provide information and better service to the families. The government also implements feasible policies in order to provide efficient family centred nursing. Such services are provided for prevention and cure of illness and create awareness regarding serious health issues as well (Coyne et al. 2013). In the essay, the chosen issue for providing family centred care is increasing childhood obesity in the modern society. The following paper will provide information about the seriousness of increasing childhood obesity, effective government strategy in order to reduce the incident and role of the nurses in making such strategy successful.
The term obesity is refers to the excessive conservation of fat and lack of balance between the consumption and expenditure of calorie (Ogden et al. 2015). Overeating and less physical activities lead to the chronic situation and premature death across the globe (Jensen et al. 2014). Thus, the problem of obesity has become world epidemic. The age group ranging from 4 to 17 years is more prone to harmful effect of obesity (McDonagh et al. 2014). Once a person gains excessive body weight, it is difficult to liberate the fat from the body. According to the statistics, 1 in 4 children is suffering from overweight or obesity in Australia (Sanders et al. 2015). The cause of childhood obesity may be individual choice, genetics problem or the influence of socio-environmental condition. Due to lack of information regarding the importance of nutrients, people fail to intake balanced diet, which means having proper amount of essential nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins and minerals. Improper diet leads to the consequence of obesity within the children. In the modern days, children are comparatively inactive due to the availability of technology. They prefer indoor games or online games rather than outdoor games. Due to intake of excess unhealthy food and lack of physical activity, they become prone to the consequence of obesity (Katzmarzyk et al. 2015). Marketing of food that contains poor nutrition profile is another reason of gaining weight. Most of the cases of obesity occur due to the genetic problem. According to study, in Australia 90% of the case of obesity is due to the improper nutrition condition of the mother during pregnancy (Black et al. 2013). Such factors of obesity affect both the physical and the mental health of the children. Due to short-term obesity, most of the children suffer from the Body Mass Index or BMI (Tchernof and Després 2013). Sleeping disorder such as apnoea and breathlessness are the consequence of obesity. They may suffer from gastrointestinal disease such as non-alcoholic fatty liver. In the long-term obesity, children may suffer from serious health issues such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and high blood pressure (Skinner et al.2015). Cancer could occur in the particular place, for example, cancer in colon, kidney and breast cancer as well. Such consequences of obesity affect the social and economical condition of a nation as it increases the rate of premature mortality and the expenditure of the government related to health care service. Rank of Australia in the overweight spectrum is 18th (Meral et al. 2015). Children are the future of every nation and the issue of obesity in the children becomes a threat for the development of the nation. If the current scenario is continued, the Australian children will continue to become obese. The life expectancy will decrease by two years and burden of diseases will increase to an extent. There will be 73% of obesity in the Australia by the year 2025 including one third of children (Grantham et al. 2013). Thus, it is important to address the issue of increasing childhood obesity in an effective manner in order to provide healthy life and well-being, decrease the rate of premature death and ensure the future of the nation.
Childhood Obesity: Definition and Causes
The increasing severity of the illness is the headache for the society and the government. The Australian government has played an important role in addressing the issue of increasing obesity in the children. The government identifies the serious condition and recognizes the consequence of increasing obesity in the nation. In order to address the issue the government has introduced many schemes. For example, Measuring Up is such a strategy in order to reduce the consequence of obesity. The mass media campaign was launched in the year 2008 in Australia (Elliott et al. 2014). The main purpose of the campaign was to reduce the chronic disease related to lifestyle. The communication channel for promoting the idea includes television, press, radio, advertisement and activities in the local communities. The Campaign has achieved success through 38% unprompted awareness and 89% prompted awareness. The Council of Australian Government signed agreement with National Partnership on Preventive Health in order to enhance the child health intervention and programs related to healthy living. The Australian government has provided $872 for six years for the purpose and extension of Measuring Up campaign. Another successful scheme of the government was the inquiry of House of Representatives regarding the severity of obesity in May, 2009 (Ebeling et al. 2013). According to the report, the government has recommended many strategies in order to counter the issue of increasing obesity in children. The Australian government has provided fund for many other scheme, for example, Healthy Spaces and Places Project. The most effective strategy is the establishment of National Prevention Agency in order to extend and enhance the Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey. The target audience of the strategy is the citizen of Australia. The motive behind the implementation of the strategy is counter the issue of increasing childhood obesity in the nation. The strategy aims to increase the number of children having good health and body weight within 10 years by 3%. It also target to increase the number of children and adult that meets the national guidelines for healthy eating habit and physical activity in within 6 years by 15% (Xu et al. 2018). The main purpose of implementing the strategy is to provide help to the children to start healthy life and promoting the importance of supporting community providing family centred care. The plan includes the idea of changing environment in order to provide adequate place for physical activity and reduce the sedentary behaviour in the society. Such improved environmental factors could influence walking, cycling and other physical activities that will help individual to remain healthy. Another strategy is to encourage individual for improving their eating habits by providing information regarding the importance of the nutritional food and balanced diet. It is recommended that exposure of the children to the advertisement and marketing regarding the poor nutritional food is needed to be reduced so that children show their interest in eating healthy food. The government aims to access the healthy food products and reduce the availability of unhealthy food products in the market through the strategy. The government aims to provide special care and healthy food habit to the pregnant mothers in order to reduce the genetically occurred obesity. It is expected by the government that by providing effective environment, the physical activity level of the individual will increase by 35% thus, reduce the rate of childhood obesity to an extent (Schranz et al. 2014). However, There are some hurdles in the way of success of the plan. For example, industry of food contributes a huge portion of the GDP of the nation. It is not that easy to reduce the marketing of poor nutritional food in the society. The demand of the people for junk foods cannot be decreased through any strategy, as it is the choice of individual. Another barrier is increasing urbanization. Due to increasing urbanization in the nation, it is difficult to provide enough places for physical activities to be carried out. In order to make the strategy successful and achieve the target of the plan, it is important to focus on the factors that could create barrier in the implementation of the strategy.
Government Strategies to Address Childhood Obesity
In order to address the health related issue the role of nurses is important. They are the main health care professionals that provide proper health care services in order to help people to maintain healthy lifestyle and well-being. Thus, their role is remarkable in providing appropriate health care service in order to reduce the rate of childhood obesity and provide them healthy start to life. The Australian nursing federation provides adequate number of nurses in the health care organization in order to provide health care service to the people with need and meet the requirements of the patients to achieve positive outcomes. The team includes general practice nurses, school nurses, maternal and child-care nurses and community health nurses. They all together provide effective health care service in order to reduce the rate of obesity in the children (Cass, Ball and Leveritt 2014). The increasing rate of childhood obesity affects the physical and mental health of the children. It leads to minor to severe health related issues such as gastrointestinal illness, cardiovascular problems, respiratory disorder and cancer as well. Thus, addressing the issue of obesity and provide better health status to the children has become a big challenge for the health care service providers. The care service includes both the prevention and the treatment of the illness. The nurses provide proper treatment service for the patients who are suffering from the severe issue of obesity. They try to introduce efficient interventions that could counter the issue related to gaining weight in an effective manner. The most effective and useful intervention is having proper diet and maintain healthy eating in regular routine (Ho et al. 2013). According to some researchers, a proper food habit for children must include 2 fruits and 5 vegetables per day to maintain healthy living and well-being. Nurses provide proper information about the importance of having healthy diet in order to remain healthy in the campaign. Such intervention helps people to understand the function of each nutrient and inspire them to eat proper amount of healthy food. The nurses inspire the patient for walking, cycling, exercising and other physical activities. Such effort plays important role in decreasing childhood obesity effectively. For the patient with long-term obesity, bariatric surgery is provided from the health care service providers. The surgery reduces the absorption of excessive food and nutrients by stomach and intestine thus restricts the patient from over eating (Angrisani et al. 2013). Rehabilitation is another service that is provided by the nurses in order to cure obesity. In order to provide family centred nursing service, the nurses recognize the strength and weakness of the families to deliver effective service to individual. Prevention of illness is always better than treatment and the nurses play important role in order to prevent the illness. The prevention process includes providing proper knowledge about obesity so that they can create awareness in the individual level. Their effort regarding the prevention of obesity includes providing inspiration to the parents so that they motivate their children to eat healthy food and limit the unhealthy food consumption. The health care service providers also provide service regarding community development. The target of the service providers is to improve the process of treatment and the Australian government provides adequate amount of fund for the research purpose. As mentioned before, the target of the strategy is to reduce the childhood obesity in order to decrease the rate of premature deaths and the plan aims to increase the number of children having good health and weight by 3% and increase the rate of physical activities by 35%. Such targets could not be achieved without the contribution of the nurses. The government could make strategies in order to reduce the rate of childhood obesity, but the effort of the nurses is the main source behind the success of such strategies.
Role of Nurses in Providing Healthcare Services
Conclusion
From the above study regarding the increasing childhood obesity in Australia, it can be concluded that, obesity is the condition of over consumption of fat and lack of balance between calorie consumption and expenditure. All generations such as children, adults and old aged people are susceptible to the consequence of obesity. The cause of obesity in the children may be individual choice of food, influence of socio-environmental condition or the genetic condition. However, improper eating habit and lack of physical activity in the daily life is the main cause of increasing obesity in the society. According to the study, 90% of the case of childhood obesity is due to improper nutrition condition of the mother during pregnancy. The health issue affects both the physical and mental health of the children. It can cause serious health issue such as gastrointestinal problem, cardiovascular problem, respiratory disorder and cancer as well. The increasing rate of childhood society leads to the high rate of premature deaths. Thus, the issue has become one of the most target areas for the health care professionals that need to be addressed in an effective manner. Government has played an important role in order to reduce the rate of childhood obesity through the introduction of effective strategies. The Australian government has provided adequate amount of fund to make the strategies successful and achieve positive outcomes. However, there are some barriers in implementation of the strategies, for example, urbanization is one of the big problem in providing appropriate place for physical activity. Limiting the food consumption of the children is difficult as it is the choice of individual. The role of nurses is important in addressing the issue of obesity in the children. Both the treatment and the prevention related service is provided by the health care service providers in order to resolve the issue of childhood obesity. Their care service includes treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, providing support to the families and community development. Such support is important in order to reduce the rate of childhood obesity and promoting the health and well-being in the population, as it could help the generation to start a healthy life.
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