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Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice, Fifth Edition prepares nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners and students for their ever-increasing role in patient teaching, health education, and health promotion. One of the most outstanding and unique features of this text is that it focuses on multiple audiences therefore making it applicable to both undergraduate and graduate nursing courses....
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"This acclaimed text promotes healthy aging by demonstrating how health practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The eighth edition encompasses major new research that substantially updates previous recommendations. It provides important new content on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the ACA; clinical preventive...
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Instant Recess proposes regular ten-minute exercise breaks that utilize music and dance and are easily incorporated into school, work, and community life. Rather than encouraging unhealthful habits like cigarette breaks or high fat snacks, these "instant recesses" make the active choice the natural one. Here is a new paradigm for fitness and public health that promises vitality, well being, and a greater sense of community -- demonstrating, as Yancey...
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Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, Second Edition describes why nurses are positioned to model and promote healthy behaviors to the public, and how they can promote health to the community. The Second Edition emphasizes the nurse’ s role in health promotion and illustrates how healthy behaviors like weight management, positive dietary changes, smoking cessation, and exercise are more likely to be adopted by clients if nurses...
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"Dr. Anderson and Dr. McFarlane's Community As Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing, 8th Edition is the best choice for Community and Public Health instructors who want to offer their students a foundational overview of key community and public concepts and then build upon that theoretical foundation through the exploration of the Community As Partner Model, which was designed to show students how the community, environment, health, and nursing...
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Preventing illness and improving the general health of the population is a vital priority for the health service with nurses expected to play a central role. Written using clear language this book explains what health promotion is and how it interacts with public health. It shows how health promotion can be implemented while drawing on the main theories, models and evidence that inform practice. The book covers the essential topics like lifestyle...
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"The research on how best to help people promote their health is constantly changing. Nurses, especially those in advanced practice, need to understand the foundational studies and current evidence to support practice decisions. From the theory of health promotion to the realities of social determinants and special populations, Health Promotion: Translating Evidence Into Practice brings together expert insights and knowledge to give you the tools...
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"Health Promotion in Nursing Practice gives nurses and other health care professionals a practical, evidence-based guide to promoting health within diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and economic populations, across the lifespan. A complete guide to health promotion across diverse populations, at all stages of life, written for undergraduate and graduate courses in health promotion and disease prevention, as well as for practicing health professionals....