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In Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, Bonnie Raingruber describes why nurses are positioned to model healthy behavior to the general public, and how they can promote health to their clients and community. This text 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 adopt these same behaviors.
This is the most up-to-date health promotion text available, and includes detailed sections on:
Innovations, regulations, and policies developed in recent years that changed health promotion practice
Health disparities
Health literacy
Alternative and complementary healing
Effective methods of promoting health and increasing client adherence to healthy behaviors
Standardized ways of evaluating health promotion interventions
Entrepreneurship
Information technology and nursing informatics
How to use the arts and literature to promote health
