Promoting health and preventing ill health form a central part of nursing study and a daily part of your future role as a nurse. In straightforward language, this book introduces the theory and concepts of health promotion and how to incorporate them into your clinical practice. Focused on the practical skills you need, it develops your confidence in promoting health and wellbeing effectively among individuals, families and diverse communities, as well as in yourself. Key features: Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards Fully updated including a new chapter on public mental health Case studies and activities illustrate how to build health promotion into your daily practice
Paul Linsley is a senior lecturer for the University of East Anglia (UEA). He teaches on a number of courses, both single and joint honours undergraduate programmes, research master's programmes, and pre- and post-registration specialist programmes. He supervises doctoral students and sits on a number of interest panels and committees. Paul has worked on a number of research projects both as part of a team and as principal investigator. Paul has presented at international conferences and holds a number of awards. He is the author of several textbooks on nursing and health-related matters, one of which has been translated into Arabic and another into Japanese. Paul has an interest in values-based practice, and this is reflected in his work both as a clinician and as an academic. Coralie Roll is an Associate Professor of nursing sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Professional Lead for Pre-Registration Nursing. She had a varied clinical career as a registered adult nurse and a registered midwife before qualifying and working for several years as a specialist community public health nurse (school nursing). In 2014, Coralie gained an MSc in clinical research and began working as a lecturer in the UEA School of Health Sciences, where she teaches students from all fields of nursing and works with colleagues from education, health and research. Her specialist area is health promotion and public health.
Chapter 1: Health promotion theory Chapter 2: Core skills for health promotion Chapter 3: Making every contact count Chapter 4: Health promotion with individuals Chapter 5: Health promotion and the family Chapter 6: Health promotion at a community level Chapter 7: Health promotion at a population level Chapter 8: Promoting health in diverse and vulnerable populations Chapter 9: Health promotion and emergent technologies Chapter 10: Evaluating health promotion Chapter 11: Promoting one's own health Chapter 12: Future trends - challenges and opportunities in health promotion
