Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.
Contents:
Health promotion, wellness, and nursing -- Promotion of wellness in patient care activities -- Strategies for teaching patients to promote wellness -- Health protection -- Stress management -- Spiritual wellness -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Nutritional wellness -- Physical activity and musculoskeletal wellness -- Weight management and digestive wellness -- Cardiovascular wellness -- Respiratory wellness -- Urinary wellness -- Visual wellness -- Hearing wellness -- Sexual wellness -- Sleep wellness.
Summary:
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 emphasizing 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 recognize its importance. In addition, nurses increasingly recognize 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 fills the need for an easy-to-use clinical reference that delivers a quick-access reference on ways to incorporate wellness into their work and throughout their daily lives.
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