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The phrase 'prevention is better than cure' is often attributed to the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus in around 1500. It is now a fundamental principle of modern health care and inherent within health and social care strategies across the UK (See: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales).
Nov 19, 2018 · Using several practical activities, this article aims to encourage nurses to identify their own approach to promoting health in their professional role, consider how they can implement ‘Making Every Contact Count’ with the patients they care for, and enhance the overall effectiveness of their practice.
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Authors' Contributions
- Funding
- Acknowledgements
The role of nurses has included clinical nursing practices, consultation, follow-up treatment, patient education and illness prevention. This has improved the availability of health-care services, reduced symptoms of chronic diseases, increased cost-effectiveness and enhanced customers' experiences of health-care services (Strömberg et al., 2003; G...
An integrative review was chosen because it allowed the inclusion of studies with diverse methodologies (for example, qualitative and quantitative research) in the same review (Cooper, 1989; Whittemore, 2005; Whittemore and Knafl, 2005). Integrative reviews have the potential to generate a comprehensive understanding, based on separate research fin...
In the end 40 research papers, were included in our integrative review. The research papers were methodologically very diverse: 16 of them included qualitative approaches; 14 were different types of reviews; 8 were quantitative; 1 used concept analysis and 1 was a mixed-method study. Twelve empirical studies were conducted in hospitals and fourteen...
Several authors have identified a need to clarify the concept of health promotion in nursing (Goodman et al., 2011; Whitehead, 2011). We found the concept map method useful to enhance conceptual understanding of this complex nursing phenomenon. This integrative review was intended to identify the findings of nursing-specific studies of health promo...
According to much of the health promotion research, it appears that nurses have not yet demonstrated a clear and obvious political role in implementing health promotion activities. Instead, nurses can be considered general health promoters, with their health promotion activities based on sound knowledge and giving information to patients. Nursing i...
V.K. was responsible for the computer-based data searches and the data analysis via the concept map method. K.T. and H.T. verified that the data searches were made properly. K.T. and H.T. verified that the concept mapping process proceeded properly and made critical appraisals in every phase of the research process. V.K. was responsible for the dra...
This research received a specific grant from The Finnish Foundation for Nurse Education and The Finnish Nurses Association.
Virpi Kemppainen would like to acknowledge the support from the University of Eastern Finland, Department of Nursing Science.
- Virpi Kemppainen, Kerttu Tossavainen, Hannele Turunen
- 2013
Feb 21, 2022 · An accurate and in-depth understanding of what health means to people and how health is experienced enables healthcare professionals, planners and policymakers to develop and deliver health promotion interventions that prevent suboptimal health and address health inequalities.
Aug 5, 2020 · Role confusion is hampering the development of nurses' capacity for health promotion and prevention. Addressing this requires discussion to reach agreement among nurses, managers, co-workers, professional associations, academics and organisations about the nursing activities in this field.
- Andrea Iriarte-Roteta, Olga Lopez-Dicastillo, Agurtzane Mujika, Cayetana Ruiz-Zaldibar, Naia Hernant...
- 2020
The author suggests that a variety of different approaches to health promotion can be adopted by nurses in practice, including education, persuasion, manipulation and attempts to promote an environment where healthy decisions about lifestyle can be made.
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Oct 18, 2018 · This article sets out the changes in definition, statutory response and prevention of DA and relates these to nursing practice. Health education and promotion theory is considered and...
