Role of Nurses: Achieving Wellness and Prevention-Oriented Healthcare

Health-care reform –
The role of the Nurse in achieving a Wellness and Prevention oriented Health-care
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According to Benedictine University (n.d.), approximately 1.7 million “approximately 1.7 million Americans die each year from chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obstructive pulmonary disease”. This is due because of the fact that most of the health care provided today are still “disease oriented” rather than “preventive” in nature. However, it is also apparent that most health-care providers are now recognizing the need for a more preventive and wellness approach, not only due to the health-care reforms that are happening within hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities, but even in the comforts of the homes of everyone. Some of the most common example of these health-care reforms are what they call as “Digital health coaching”. According to Wildenhaus (n.d.), Digital health coaching “utilizes the current innovation in science in order to...