cover image - Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323096638
Copyright: 2014
Publication Date: 10-14-2013
Page Count: 704
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $98.99

Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition

by Carole Lium Edelman, MSN, GCNS-BC, CMC, Elizabeth Connelly Kudzma, DNSc, MPH, WHNP-BC, CNL and Carol Lynn Mandle, PhD, AP, RN, CNS, FNP

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cover image - Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323096638
Copyright: 2014
Publication Date: 10-14-2013
Page Count: 704
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $98.99
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With the advent of health care reform and an emphasis on reducing health care costs, health promotion and disease prevention is a priority in nursing care. Prepare your students with Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 8th Edition, a comprehensive guide to major health promotion concepts. Featuring practical guidance – including boxes on diversity awareness, evidence-based practice, innovative practice, hot topics, and quality and safety, as well as case studies and care plans – our experienced authors give your students all the tools they need to stay current on the latest research and trends in health promotion.

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    • NEW! Healthy People 2020 boxes include related goals and objectives for each chapter to address emerging health issues and health priorities over the next decade.
    • NEW! Quality and Safety scenarios include examples and suggestions to encourage quality and safety in nursing.
    • NEW! Redesigned Nutrition chapter highlights the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the MyPlate food guide.
    • NEW! Standard headings in the growth and development chapters reinforce the concepts of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns.
    • Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the lifespan emphasizes the unique problems and health promotion needs of each age and stage of development.
    • Separate chapters on each population – group, individual, family, and community stress the unique issues faced when providing care to each group.
    • Evidence-Based Practice boxes address current research efforts and opportunities in health promotion.
    • Hot Topics boxes introduce significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion.
    • Diversity Awareness boxes address various cultural perspectives and provide important information that needs to be considered in planning care.
    • Case studies present realistic situations and challenge students to reflect upon important considerations.
    • Think About It Boxes dig deeper into the chapter topic and encourage critical thinking.
    • Numerous pedagogical features such as objectives, key terms, and textual summaries highlight the most important concepts and terms in each chapter.
    • Updated nutrition coverage includes MyPyramid from the FDA, as well as the latest information on food safety and fad diets.
    • Expanded health policy coverage focuses on global health, historical perspectives, financing healthcare, concierge medical practices, and the hospitalist movement.
    • Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century explores current and future health promotion challenges and research initiatives.
    • Updated Healthy People 2010 data includes midcourse review objectives and an introduction to Healthy People 2020.
    • Case Studies and Care Plans summarize key concepts and show how they apply to real-life practice.
  • Module 1: Foundations for Health Promotion

    1. Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention
    2. Emerging Populations and Health
    3. Health Policy and the Delivery System
    4. The Therapeutic Relationship
    5. Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion
    6. Module 2: Assessment for Health Promotion

    7. Health Promotion and the Individual
    8. Health Promotion and the Family
    9. Health Promotion and the Community
    10. Module 3: Interventions for Health Promotion

    11. Screening
    12. Health Education
    13. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion
    14. Exercise
    15. Stress Management
    16. Holistic Health Strategies
    17. Module 4: Application of Health Promotion

    18. Overview of Growth and Development Framework
    19. The Prenatal Period
    20. Infant
    21. Toddler
    22. Preschool Child
    23. School-Age Child
    24. Adolescent
    25. Young Adult
    26. Middle-Age Adult
    27. Older Adult
    28. Module 5: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

    29. Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century: Throughout the Life Span and Throughout the World
  • Carole Lium Edelman, MSN, GCNS-BC, CMC, Private Practice, Professional Geriatric Care Management, Westchester County, New York. USA, Elizabeth Connelly Kudzma, DNSc, MPH, WHNP-BC, CNL, Professor,Emeritus School of Nursing Curry College and Carol Lynn Mandle, PhD, AP, RN, CNS, FNP, Associate Professor, Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Family Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Scientist, Mind-Body Medical Institute, Boston, MA; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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