Question

a) 58-year-old male of Caribbean descent. He is an executive in a high-tech company and works approximately 60-70 hours a week. He is married and looks after his elderly parents at home. He comes into the clinic for a checkup and reports that he has felt dizzy, began to have episodes of severe headaches and finds it hard to sleep at night. He states that he usually just ends up working “to make good use of the times he can’t sleep till 2AM”. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 158 lbs. His vital signs are BP: 142/88, P: 90, T: 36.9 C, R: 15, O2 sat: 98%

identify 2 actual or potential health concerns and make a teaching plane.

Teaching Plan

• Provide two (2) health promotion and/or illness prevention strategies for each actual or potential health concern you have identified (4 total).
• Rationale must be provided as to why each of the health promotion and/or illness prevention strategies were chosen.

Answer 1

Here the patient is having two main potential health problems. They are over weight and increased stress of work and lack of adequate sleep. Hence the patient is having headache, probably tension headache.

The health promotion strategies are healthy eating pattern, so that it helps to maintain proper weight. Physical activity at least 30 minutes in a day so that it also helps to maintain weight as well as to reduce stress. Since the patient is working an average of 8-10 hours in a week, adequate sleep of 6-8hours should be ensured. Adequate sleep will rejuvenate the mind and body. He can also practice yoga and meditation to calm down the body and mind and reduce the stress.