Health Promotion in Nursing

Showing nursing students how to promote patient health, Maville and Huerta (nursing, U. of Texas-Pan American) present promotion throughout the lifespan and through biological, psychological, social, environmental, sexual, spiritual, and technological dimensions. They address conceptual and theoretical foundations; the nurse's role; factors such as communication, cultural issues, and the mind-body-spirit connection; strategies and interventions for nutrition, physical fitness, weight control, holistic care, and avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and substance abuse; self-care; economic and quality concerns; and ethical, legal, and political issues. This edition integrates new issues related to health care technology and has a new chapter on wellness strategies to enable healthy lifestyles in the face of grief or terminal illnesses. Along with revised data, it includes more on health care reform and its effects on health promotion and two new features: wellness issues encountered by nurses in other parts of the world and connections between chapter content and related theory. Other changes include updated competencies, Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, and immunization schedules; more on the wellness concept, adult immunization, birth control, differentiation of ethnicity and race, biomonitoring, and the effects of the Haiti and Japan earthquakes and the Gulf oil spill; information on analysis of data for critical thinking, the social determinants of health, surgical options for obesity, cognitive restructuring, electronic health records, and factors driving health care costs; new and expanded sections on stress and victims of natural disaster, nutrition, violence in adolescence, poverty and health care costs for the elderly, managed care, promoting awareness of genetic/genomic issues, the elderly and disaster preparedness, and dietary reference intakes; the new USDA MyPlate guidelines; emphasis on childhood obesity and the obesity epidemic; and strategies to prevent obesity and eating disorders. Online access to answers to chapter questions, a glossary, and chapter objectives is provided. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)