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An 8 page paper discussing this model of nursing and model of health care, particularly as it relates to education. The Pender model holds that people are willing and able to take the steps necessary to improve their health standing, to seek increasing levels of wellness rather than only existing without the presence of illness. Delivering health-enhancing information within the confines of the Pender model as well as deference to learning theory can be of tremendous benefit to individuals. It is reasonable to assume that greater progress in a shorter period of time provides additional incentive to retain new behaviors and to continue practicing them until they become ingrained. Achieving healthier behaviors over the long term is the goal of those in health promotion. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSnursHlthProPen.rtf
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old country-Western song is titled, "I was country when country wasnt cool." Much the same can be said about Nola Pender, completing a nursing degree in the early 1960s
when there were virtually no doctoral programs devoted exclusively to nursing. At the time that Pender became interested in research, the health care pattern was that and individual became
ill, sought the advice and care of a doctor and then set about healing again, regaining health. Prior to the Surgeon Generals warning on cigarettes in the mid-1960s, there
was very little attention trained on preventive health care. It was Penders goal to change that perspective, hoping to alter the prevailing pattern to focus on prevention rather than
on cures. Achieving this goal required astute observation of what existed at the time, followed by the application of activities that Pender believed would assist in changing attitudes about
health care. The purpose here is to apply those same principles to education. The Pender Health Promotion Model Pender (n.d.) states that
in her day of degree study there were no desirable nursing-oriented degree programs and she was forced to design her own. Her solution was to complete "a dual major
doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodologically sound, and it "seemed that this preparation was most applicable
to nursing as scientific knowledge in psychology could be used to help people restructure their cognitive world and their health behaviors" (Pender, n.d.a). Pender (n.d.a) states that in the
ensuing years, she has indeed found this to be true. As stated, Penders primary motivation in her choice of study arose from the
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