Nursing Health Education and Improving Patient Self-Management - Barbara Sassen Kartoniert (TB)

This book describes the latest advances in health education and patients' self-management addressing core questions such as: How can you motivate a patient to adopt a healthier lifestyle and how can you support their self-management? Though there is a broad consensus within the nursing profession on the importance of health promotion and the promotion of self-management nursing professionals often struggle with the underlying theoretical and practical aspects involved as well as the right type of intervention to use and how to evaluate the results. The book departs from international trend s which primarily underline the importance of prevention and focus on such issues as the increase in the number of people with chronic health problems and co-morbidity the empowerment of patients and the technological developments in the health care system. In the first chapters it examines health at the micro- meso- and macro-level combined with epidemiological health indicators. The following chapters focus on prevention health promotion and self-management while also broadly discussing prevention. The book then turns to the development and purpose of as well as plans for health promotion and health education. The Intervention Mapping protocol is the starting point addressing questions such as how to motivate a patient to other healthier behavior. Subsequently the field of health promotion is extended to disease prevention patient education and self-management. On the basis of patients' needs the book describes methods and interventions to promote self-management in detail. Self-management and chronic health problems are also highlighted along with the patient's social network in connection with self-management and eHealth. Lastly the book explores the relationship between nursing and health promotion as well as disease prevention nursing diagnoses nursing interventions and care results. Additionally this edition includes two trainings on 'Promoting the self-management of the patient ' and on 'What is the role of the nursing professional in promoting self-management of the patient?'. This book is intended for bachelor and master courses for nursing professionals and is linked to the CanMeds competencies of health promoters and reflective evidence-based working professionals.