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Health Promotion
in Nursing Practice
Edition 4
Nola J. Pender, Carolyn L. Murdaugh,
Mary Ann Parsons
0-13-031950-3
Paperback
340 pages
2002
Brief Description
For undergraduate/graduate-level nursing courses in Health Promotion.
This theoretical and practical text focuses on national health promotion priorities identified in Healthy People 2010—with special emphasis on culturally and racially diverse populations. Its unique coverage features an overview of major health behavior change models as a context for active participation in assessing, planning, and intervening to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities, and to prevent disease.
Features
- An orientation to theoretical models and research.
Supplies students with the latest theoretical frameworks currently used in planning health promotion services.
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Adaptable tools—Teaches health promotion skills.
Enables students to assess health related lifestyles and develop nursing plans for a variety of care settings.
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Focus on diverse populations.
Helps students address cultural differences in health-related beliefs and practices.
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An ecological approach to health promotion—Addresses individuals, family, and community levels.
Familiarizes students with the multiple levels of intervention that are critical to informed professional functioning.
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Health knowledge checklists and goal identification forms.
Allows students to organize important material for study and their own learning objectives.
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Examples of nurse-client contracts and self contracts.
Provides application examples for students.
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Directions for research and innovative practice.
Promotes creative thinking among students about the conduct of research in health promotion and the delivery of quality health promotion services.
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Chapter-end summaries.
Encourages students to reflect on the implications of what they have read for nursing practice and research.
New to this Edition
Up-to-date research findings—Regarding testing the Health Promotion Model.
Provides students with an overview of recent research in behavior change.
Discussion of measuring health promotion outcomes.
Assists students in understanding the importance of evaluating outcomes.
Strategies for evaluating individual and community interventions.
Addresses a very important topic and serves students with critical analyses.
An entire chapter devoted to health promotion in vulnerable populations.
Gives students the necessary tools to provide this evidence-based health care in diverse practice settings.
Revised discussion of building health promotion partnerships.
Shows students with greater clarity the interrelationship of key partnership and community ideas and concepts.
Web-based references.
Provides students and instructors with helpful and dynamic sites for accessing information related to the topics of most chapters.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: THE CHALLENGES OF A NEW MILLENNIUM.
I. THE HUMAN QUEST FOR HEALTH.
1. Toward a Definition of Health.
2. Motivation for Health Behavior.
3. The Health Promotion Model.
II. HEALTH PROMOTION IN DIVERSE POPULATIONS.
4. Empowering for Self-Care across the Life Span.
5. Health Promotion in Vulnerable Populations.
III. PLANNING FOR PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION.
6. Assessing Health, Health Beliefs and Health Behaviors.
7. Developing a Health-Protection-Promotion Plan.
IV. INTERVENTIONS FOR PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION.
8. Physical Activity and Health.
9. Nutrition and Health.
10. Stress Management and Health.
11. Social Support and Health.
V.EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH PROMOTION.
12. Measuring Outcomes of Health Promotion and Prevention Interventions.
13. Evaluating Individual and Community Interventions.
VI. APPROACHES FOR PROMOTING A HEALTHIER SOCIETY.
14. Health Promotion in Community Settings.
15. Protecting and Promoting Health Through Social and Environmental Change.
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