For this reason, and many others, this book comes highly commended as a valuable resource for promoting and guiding 'real' health promotion for nurses and nursing.' - Dean Whitehead, Massey University, New Zealand This book goes a long way to fill the current dearth of nursing-related books and other literature that report and support health promotion in the context of 'traditional' health education. The strength of this text is in systematically addressing these fundamental issues and bringing to life tangible solutions to them. 'In nursing, there is a notable lack of theoretical clarity on the current nature and scope of health promotion and its lack of frameworks to guide practice and policy. Each chapter includes an introduction, learning outcomes and exercises, making this an essential book for all nursing students studying health promotion.

The book describes the aims, processes, impact and outcomes of health promotion interventions in nursing for each of these models and identifies criteria for evaluating the associated nursing interventions – enabling clinical judgements about effective practice.Įvidence-based examples demonstrate the relationship between health promotion theory and pragmatic applications for nursing throughout. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the nurse’s role and promoting evidence-based practice.ĭrawing on empirical research and discussing existing theories of health promotion and of nursing, Stewart Piper identifies three principal approaches: Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model.

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