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ISBN10: 0071593802 | ISBN13: 9780071593809

Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 0071593802
ISBN13: 9780071593809
By Carol Miller

© 2008 Published December 21, 2007

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The tools and guidance you need to make wellness a part of your everyday nursing practice

While many books have covered the theoretical aspects of wellness, only one resource gives you a real sense of what wellness looks like at the bedside: the Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness. Compact and easy to use, this unique how-to guide is filled with wellness-oriented clinical tools and practical suggestions, from teaching nutritional wellness to promoting specific aspects of patients' wellness such as moving and breathing well.

Features

  • Wellness Assessment Tools that give specific instructions on how to identify areas for potential wellness interventions
  • Wellness Teaching Tools specifically designed to be used as handouts educate patients about how they can participate in their own care
  • Insightful stories from nurses and patients demonstrating the role of wellness in patient care
  • Clear three-part organization that begins with a helpful overview of wellness nursing, then covers how to promote patients' wellness in their daily lives and facilitate specific aspects of patients' wellness
  • Detailed, step-by-step guidelines that provide specific techniques to use at the bedside
  • Hands-on self-assessment tools that enable you to utilize wellness techniques in your own life

PART I OVERVIEW OF WELLNESS NURSING

1 Exploring the Wellness Territory

2Fitting Wellness into Practice

3Fine Tuning Our Wellness Skills

PART II:

PROMOTING PATIENTS’ WELLNESS IN THEIR DAILY LIVES

4Promoting Wellness-Enhancing Decisions

5Incorporating Body-Mind-Spirit Interventions into

Nursing Care

6Teaching about Self-Wellness Actions

7Teaching about Nutritional Wellness

8Promoting Responsible Decisions about Complementary and Alternative Practices

9Promoting Responsible Decisions about Herbs, Medications, and Other Bioactive Substances

10Protecting Health

PART III: PROMOTING SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF PATIENTS’ WELLNESS

11Gastrointestinal Wellness

12Moving Well

13Sensory Wellness

14Breathing Well

15Cardiovascular Wellness

16Urinary Wellness

17Sleeping Well

18Sexual Wellness

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