Overview

About Nursing Health Promotion

Nursing Health Promotion provides nursing students with essential knowledge and evidence-based nursing interventions to promote wellness to clients across the lifespan. Key topics include learner assessment and health teaching strategies, nutrition, exercise, stress management, and risk reduction, while examining family dynamics, developmental stages, and parenting approaches. It addresses specialized nursing care for reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care, newborns, and pediatric illnesses, and also introduces concepts for caring for clients with neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions. Emphasizing patient education and advocacy for healthy lifestyle choices, this book features interactive learning activities and NCLEX Next Generation-style case studies to reinforce the development of clinical judgment. Created by a team of nursing faculty, this resource prepares future nurses to deliver holistic, preventive care in diverse healthcare settings.

This textbook is an open educational resource based on the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Health Promotion course (543-106), a second semester nursing course designed for students in the Practical Nursing program and the first year of the Associate Degree Nursing program. It is also aligned with the 2023 NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN test plans.

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Ernstmeyer, K. and Christman, E. (Eds.). (2025). Nursing Health Promotion. Open RN | WisTech Open. https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/healthpromo/

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