Health Promotion for Nursing Students

Paul Linsley is a senior lecturer for the University of East Anglia (UEA). He teaches on a number of courses, both single and joint honours undergraduate programmes, research master’s programmes, and pre- and post-registration specialist programmes. He supervises doctoral students and sits on a number of interest panels and committees. Paul has worked on a number of research projects both as part of a team and as principal investigator. Paul has presented at international conferences and holds a number of awards. He is the author of several textbooks on nursing and health-related matters, one of which has been translated into Arabic and another into Japanese. Paul has an interest in values-based practice, and this is reflected in his work both as a clinician and as an academic. Coralie Roll is an Associate Professor of nursing sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Professional Lead for Pre-Registration Nursing.  She had a varied clinical career as a registered adult nurse and a registered midwife before qualifying and working for several years as a specialist community public health nurse (school nursing). In 2014, Coralie gained an MSc in clinical research and began working as a lecturer in the UEA School of Health Sciences, where she teaches students from all fields of nursing and works with colleagues from education, health and research. Her specialist area is health promotion and public health.

Health promotion is a keystone skill for nurses, who want to provide proactive care for their patients and their families.The books starts with a selection of theory, identifying the core skills, how to make every contact count, how to differential health promotion from individuals to society, the use of technologies and ultimately how you can evaluate the effectiveness of HP activities. The book is suitable as a study aid and a reference text for clinicians.

• Chapter 1: Health promotion theoryChapter 2: Core skills for health promotionChapter 3: Making every contact countChapter 4: Health promotion with individualsChapter 5: Health promotion and the familyChapter 6: Health promotion at a community levelChapter 7: Health promotion at a population levelChapter 8: Promoting health in diverse and vulnerable populationsChapter 9: Health promotion and emergent technologiesChapter 10: Evaluating health promotionChapter 11: Promoting one′s own healthChapter 12: Future trends - challenges and opportunities in health promotion