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April 27-28, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
19th Global Nursing Education Conference
Volume 6, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Global Nursing Education 2017
April 27-28, 2017
Nursing implications of facilitators and barriers to health promoting behavior of rural Canadians
Brenda Query
Red Deer College, Canada
Engagement in health promoting behaviors has shown to improve the health of individuals. However, there is a difference in both
the health status and the health-promoting behaviors of urban and rural Canadians. These differences and possible reasons as to
why these differences exist will be briefly discussed. While individuals are responsible for the decisions that they make regarding their
health promoting behaviors, other factors have the potential to influence these behaviors; this viewpoint is supported by proponents
of social ecology models. The authors of these models contend that other factors, such as family, social, organizational, environmental,
and policy factors can also act as facilitators and barriers to health promoting behaviors. The purpose of this presentation is to
discuss the unique and multi-faceted facilitators and barriers to health promoting behaviors experienced by individuals living in
rural communities in Canada. Nursing implications regarding the assessment of these rural Canadians will be explored. Subsequent
focuses for the health teaching of patients/clients who live in and/or who are being discharged to rural communities in Canada will
then be presented.
Biography
Brenda Query has been a Registered Nurse for 20 years and Nursing Faculty for 14 years. She did her PhD in Nursing from the University of Alberta in Canada.
Her main areas of interest are pediatrics, critical care, research, pharmacology, and hemodialysis. Focused areas of her research are health and health promoting
behaviors of urban and rural caregivers of children with disabilities.
Brenda Query, J Nurs Care 2017, 6:2 (Suppl)