Health Promotion for Nurses : Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415462624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str.

Stewart Piper

Opis

Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the nurse’s role and promoting evidence-based practice.

Drawing on empirical research and discussing existing theories of health promotion and of nursing, Stewart Piper identifies three principal approaches:

• The nurse as an agent of behaviour change
• The nurse as an empowerment facilitator, both at an individual and a community level
• The nurse as a health promotion strategist

The book describes the aims, processes, impact and outcomes of health promotion interventions in nursing for each of these models and identifies criteria for evaluating the associated nursing interventions – enabling clinical judgements about effective practice.

Evidence-based examples demonstrate the relationship between health promotion theory and pragmatic applications for nursing throughout and each chapter includes an introduction, learning outcomes and exercises, making this an essential book for all nursing students studying health promotion.

Spis treści

Part 1: Theory  1. Concept Analysis and the Language of Theory and Practice  2. Operational Definitions and Theory Testing Criteria  3. General Health Education and Health Promotion Framework Review  4. Health Education and Health Promotion Frameworks and Nursing  5. Health Promotion Framework for Nursing Practice  Part 2: Practice  6. The Nurse as Behaviour Change Agent  7. The Nurse as Empowerment Facilitator: Individual Action Perspective  8. The Nurse as Empowerment Facilitator: Community Action Perspective  9. The Nurse as Strategic Practitioner  Conclusion

O autorze

Stewart Piper is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. His academic and research interests include the relationship between health promotion theory and nursing practice and empowerment.