Essentials for Health Promotion in Nursing: Promoting Wellness

The Essentials of Adult Health Nursing provides a concise guide for nurses in adult-health clinical settings, helping to improve patient outcomes and reduce personal and professional stress. It covers health promotion interventions, including patient education, and emphasizes the importance of wellness, stress reduction, and body-mind connectedness.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 30 August 2018
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc

This addition to the Essentials series provides a concise guide for nurses in adult-health clinical settings and fills the need for an easy-to-use clinical reference that delivers a quick-access reference on ways to incorporate wellness into their work, helping to improve patient outcomes, and throughout their daily lives, helping to reduce personal and professional stress and improve their overall wellness. There currently is no clinical reference book that nurses can use for health promotion in general and health promotion for wellness in particular. Having such a reference is especially pertinent to nurses who learned about health promotion in academic nursing programs, but did not learn about health promotion in the broader context of promoting wellness. Since Florence Nightingale, nurses have considered health promotion interventions, particularly patient education, as an essential component of nursing care. Historically, these interventions traditionally focused on physical health concerns, such as nutrition, exercise, and fresh air, and more recently, on immunizations, and screening for disease (e.g., cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease). Because health promotion has expanded to include wellness, nurses now address issues related to broader aspects, such as stress reduction, body-mind connectedness, and self-responsibility. At the same time that wellness has become an important focus of care, health care providers increasingly are emphasizing cost effectiveness and use of advanced technology. As a result of these concurrent trends, nurses experience high levels of job-related stress and have less time to promote patient wellness as an integral part of their care, even though they recognise its importance. In addition, nurses increasingly recognize the need to incorporate wellness into their work to improve their own health and well-being. This addition to the Essentials series provides a comprehensive guide to health promotion for nurses in adult-health clinical settings. It covers a wide range of topics, including the definition of wellness, the benefits of health promotion, the principles of health promotion, and the strategies and tools that nurses can use to incorporate wellness into their work. The book is organized into four chapters, each of which provides a detailed overview of a specific aspect of health promotion. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to wellness and explains the importance of promoting health and well-being in nursing care. Chapter 2 discusses the benefits of health promotion for patients, including improved outcomes, reduced healthcare costs, and increased patient satisfaction. Chapter 3 explores the principles of health promotion, including the promotion of physical, mental, and social well-being. Chapter 4 provides a practical guide to incorporating wellness into nursing care, including strategies for promoting patient education, stress reduction, and body-mind connectedness. In addition to the comprehensive guide, the book includes a variety of resources and references that nurses can use to further their knowledge and practice of health promotion. These resources include case studies, examples of best practices, and links to relevant websites and organizations. Overall, this addition to the Essentials series is an invaluable resource for nurses who are interested in promoting health and well-being in their patients and themselves. It provides a comprehensive and practical guide to health promotion that is easy to read and understand, and that can be used as a reference for years to come.

Since Florence Nightingale, nurses have considered health promotion interventions, particularly patient education, as an essential component of nursing care. Historically, these interventions traditionally focused on physical health concerns, such as nutrition, exercise, and fresh air, and more recently, on immunizations, and screening for disease (e.g., cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease). Because health promotion has expanded to include wellness, nurses now address issues related to broader aspects, such as stress reduction, body-mind connectedness, and self-responsibility. At the same time that wellness has become an important focus of care, health care providers increasingly are emphasizing cost effectiveness and use of advanced technology. As a result of these concurrent trends, nurses experience high levels of job-related stress and have less time to promote patient wellness as an integral part of their care, even though they recognise its importance. In addition, nurses increasingly recognize the need to incorporate wellness into their work to improve their own health and well-being. This addition to the Essentials series provides a comprehensive guide to health promotion for nurses in adult-health clinical settings. It covers a wide range of topics, including the definition

Since Florence Nightingale, nurses have considered health promotion interventions, particularly patient education, as an essential component of nursing care. Historically, these interventions traditionally focused on physical health concerns, such as nutrition, exercise, and fresh air, and more recently, on immunizations, and screening for disease (e.g., cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease). Because health promotion has expanded to include wellness, nurses now address issues related to broader aspects, such as stress reduction, body-mind connectedness, and self-responsibility. At the same time that wellness has become an important focus of care, health care providers increasingly are emphasizing cost effectiveness, effectiveness, and use of advanced technology. As a result of these concurrent trends, nurses experience high levels of job-related stress and have less time to promote patient wellness as an integral part of their care, even though they recognise its importance. In addition, nurses increasingly recognise the need to incorporate wellness into their work to improve their own health and well-being. This addition to the Essentials series provides a comprehensive guide to health promotion for nurses in adult-health clinical settings. It covers a wide range of topics, including the definition health promotion, the benefits of health promotion, the principles of health promotion, and the strategies and tools that nurses can use to incorporate wellness into their work. The book is organized into four chapters, each of which provides a detailed overview of a specific aspect of health promotion. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to wellness and explains the importance of promoting health and well-being in nursing care. Chapter 2 discusses the benefits of health promotion for patients, including improved outcomes, reduced healthcare costs, and increased patient satisfaction. Chapter 3 explores the principles of health promotion, including the promotion of physical, mental, and social well-being. Chapter 4 provides a practical guide to incorporating wellness into nursing care, including strategies for promoting patient education, stress reduction, and body-mind connectedness. In addition to the comprehensive guide, the book includes a variety of resources and references that nurses can use to further their knowledge and practice of health promotion. These resources include case studies, examples of best practices, and links to relevant websites and organizations. Overall, this addition to the Essentials series is an invaluable resource for nurses who are interested in promoting health and well-being in their patients and themselves. It provides a comprehensive and practical guide to health promotion that is easy to read and understand, and that can be used as a reference for years to come.

Weight: 298g
Dimension: 203 x 126 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780826136695