This addition to the Essentials series provides a succinct guide
for nurses in adult-health clinical settings and fills the need for
an easy-to-use clinical reference that delivers a quick-access
reference on ways to incorporate wellness into their work, helping
to improve patient outcomes, and throughout their daily lives,
helping to reduce personal and professional stress and improve
their overall wellness. There currently is no clinical reference
book that nurses can use for health promotion in general and health
promotion for wellness in particular. Having such a reference is
especially pertinent to nurses who learned about health promotion
in academic nursing programs, but did not learn about health
promotion in the broader context of promoting wellness. Since
Florence Nightingale, nurses have considered health promotion
interventions - particularly patient education - as an essential
component of nursing care. Historically, these interventions
traditionally focused on physical health concerns, such as
nutrition, exercise, and fresh air, and more recently, on
immunisations, and screening for disease (e.g., cancer, diabetes,
hypertension, and cardiovascular disease). Because health promotion
has expanded to include ""wellness,"" nurses now address issues
related to broader aspects, such as stress reduction, body-mind
connectedness, and self-responsibility. At the same time that
wellness has become an important focus of care, health care
providers increasingly are emphasising cost effectiveness and use
of advanced technology. As a result of these concurrent trends,
nurses experience high levels of job-related stress and have less
time to promote patient wellness as an integral part of their care,
even though they recognise its importance. In addition, nurses
increasingly recognise that job-related pressures negatively affect
them personally and they are looking for ways to incorporate
wellness in their work and personal experiences. This book was
originally published under the Fast Facts series by Springer
Publishing Company.
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