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This book offers perspectives on wellness-oriented nursing care for older adults in any healthcare setting. The book provides coverage of the theory and practice of gerontological nursing, addressing both physiologic and psychosocial aspects of aging, as well as broader issues such as cultural competence and legal and ethical concerns. Organized around the author's Functional Consequences Theory, the book explores age-related changes as well as the...
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"Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, Second Edition describes why nurses are positioned to model and promote healthy behaviors to the public, and how they can promote health to the community. The Second Edition emphasizes the nurse's role in health promotion and illustrates how healthy behaviors like weight management, positive dietary changes, smoking cessation, and exercise are more likely to be adopted by clients if nurses model...
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Here's the very first text to address this evolving new area of OT practice. It teaches students about health promotion and prevention theory and practice from a wellness rather than an illness perspective. Using "cutting edge" examples, the authors explore how to incorporate this new paradigm into clinical practice and how to develop wellness interventions across the lifespan.
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Successful Aging provides a wide array of information to combat predictable problems, to protect existing states of health and healthy functioning, and to promote attaining desired goals. The authors deal with primary prevention as a major helping tool for treatment and rehabilitation workers, augmenting their existing skills as we enter an age of managed care to increase preproblem health and healthy living, while reducing expensive post-problem...
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Get all the knowledge you need to provide effective care for adults as they age. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Ebersole & Hess'' Toward Healthy Aging, 9th Edition is the only comprehensive text to address all aspects of gerontological nursing care. The new ninth edition has been extensively revised and updated and now includes shorter, more streamlined...
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"You already know how to give your kids healthy food. But the hard part is getting them to eat it. After years of research and working with parents, Dina Rose discovered a powerful truth: When parents focus solely on nutrition, their kids--surprisingly--eat poorly. But when families shift their emphasis to behaviors--the skills and habits kids are taught--they learn to eat right. Every child can learn to eat well--but only if you show them how to...
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"Health Promotion in the 21st Century offers a systematic introduction to the principles of health promotion today, and effective planning, implementation and evaluation. The authors review the global, regional and local issues that affect health in Australia, and show how social, economic, political and educational elements in society contribute to population health and wellbeing. Throughout, the authors emphasise that health promotion needs multiple...
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Now in its Seventh Edition, this comprehensive text provides unique coverage of vulnerable aggregate populations while using the levels of prevention approach. The book focuses on public health concerns including health promotion and protection, provides strong nursing application coverage, and addresses timely issues such as disaster nursing, urban clients, and clients with disabilities/chronic illness. This edition retains popular features such...
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Both jobs and the workforce have changed dramatically in recent years. Manufacturing has given way to a technology-driven, information-based workplace. People are working until later in life and the pool of workers is growing more diverse. Flexible hours and telecommuting are increasingly common. This volume addresses the challenges confronting an aging labor force as it deals with profound shifts in employment and organizations and what these changes...
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"Written specifically for dental hygienists, this comprehensive textbook covers concepts, issues, techniques, and methods related to dental public health. It focuses on the assessment of factors that affect oral health of populations and the development of policy in response to a population's needs. It also provides information regarding the active promotion of oral health maintenance. This text is unique in that it applies the Dental Hygiene Process...
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"Here's just what you need to effectively care for your patients in the ever-changing world of health care. Elain Polan and Daphne Taylor guide you through the life cycle-from conception to old age-with an emphasis on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in clinical practice. Easy-to-understand chapters and a full-color presentation offer a complete review of growth and development across the life span"--Publisher's description.
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