Lifestyle Nursing

Lifestyle medicine is an evidence-based approach to helping individuals  and families adopt and sustain healthy behaviors in preventing,  treating, and oftentimes, reversing chronic diseases. This fast-growing  specialty operates off six main principles including nutrition, physical  activity, stress resilience, cessation or risk reduction of substance  use, quality sleep, and social connectivity.

Nurses are the  primary providers of hospital-based patient care and deliver most of the  nation's long-term care. Within healthcare, nurses are often tasked  with educating patients and families and are thereby well-positioned to  address lifestyle intervention with patients.

Lifestyle Nursing  examines the concepts of lifestyle medicine and nursing practice, it is  specifically designed to help nurses introduce the concepts of lifestyle  medicine to readers while also encouraging them to focus on their own  wellness. This book features nutritional guidelines and supplemental  materials operationalizing this basic nutrition knowledge into personal  and patient wellness. It addresses evidence-based findings of chronic  diseases including heart diseases and stroke, type 2 diabetes, and  cancers, which can often be prevented by lifestyle interventions.

Drawing  from nursing and medical literature, this volume in the Lifestyle  Medicine series encourages incorporation of lifestyle principles into  nursing practices professionally and personally which will lead to  overall improved patient outcomes and happier, healthier nurses.