CITATION

Miller, Carol. Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007.

Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness

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Published:  December 2007

eISBN: 9780071593809 0071593802 | ISBN: 9780071477611

Book description:

The tools and guidance you need to make wellness a part of your everyday nursing practice

While many books have covered the theoretical aspects of wellness, only one resource gives you a real sense of what wellness looks like at the bedside: the Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness. Compact and easy to use, this unique how-to guide is filled with wellness-oriented clinical tools and practical suggestions, from teaching nutritional wellness to promoting specific aspects of patients' wellness such as moving and breathing well.

Features

  • Wellness Assessment Tools that give specific instructions on how to identify areas for potential wellness interventions

  • Wellness Teaching Tools specifically designed to be used as handouts educate patients about how they can participate in their own care

  • Insightful stories from nurses and patients demonstrating the role of wellness in patient care

  • Clear three-part organization that begins with a helpful overview of wellness nursing, then covers how to promote patients' wellness in their daily lives and facilitate specific aspects of patients' wellness

  • Detailed, step-by-step guidelines that provide specific techniques to use at the bedside

  • Hands-on self-assessment tools that enable you to utilize wellness techniques in your own life

Job: Miller: Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness back cover copy; 0071477616; 9780071477611

[title]

Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness

[author]

Carol A. Miller, MSN, RNC

[headline]

The tools and guidance you need to make wellness a part of your everyday nursing practice

While many books have covered the theoretical aspects of wellness, only one resource gives you a real sense of what wellness looks like at the bedside: the Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness. Compact and easy to use, this unique how-to guide is filled with wellness-oriented clinical tools and practical suggestions, from teaching nutritional wellness to promoting specific aspects of patients' wellness such as moving and breathing well.

Features

  • Wellness Assessment Tools that give specific instructions on how to identify areas for potential wellness interventions

  • Wellness Teaching Tools specifically designed to be used as handouts educate patients about how they can participate in their own care

  • Insightful stories from nurses and patients demonstrating the role of wellness in patient care

  • Clear three-part organization that begins with a helpful overview of wellness nursing, then covers how to promote patients' wellness in their daily lives and facilitate specific aspects of patients' wellness

  • Detailed, step-by-step guidelines that provide specific techniques to use at the bedside

  • Hands-on self-assessment tools that enable you to utilize wellness techniques in your own life

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Carol Miller, M.S.N., R.N.C. has a professional nursing career that spans more than three decades. She has held clinical, research, teaching, consulting, legislative, writing, administrative, expert witness, and health education positions.