Health promotion

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Mar 19, 2008

hi, stjoa, and welcome to allnurses! :welcome:

by modeling the behavior they preach. if they are telling their patients not to smoke, to eat healthy diets and stay at a trim weight, then they shouldn't have a pack of cigarettes noticeable in their uniform pocket or be seen smoking, chowing down on all kinds of junk food and squeezing into size 3x scrubs!

nurz2be · Mar 19, 2008

hey guys, I am just wondering how nurses can incorporate health promotion into their practice and be involved in other health promotion strategies besides health education.
Thanx....

Basically what Daytonite says. Our instructor told us from the beginning, "We are walking, talking billboards for health. What does your billboard tell people?" She also says that it is the role of the nurse to be "giver" not receiver of their patient. You cannot give what you do not have.

Think of it this way... if you were lets say sightless and had not truly seen the physical beauty of a sky....how exactly can you convey the true beauty to anyone else?

Same thing goes with our personal health, mental health, spiritual health. No, not all nurses have to be a size 1, eat healthy 100% of the time, workout 2 hours a day, and go to church.

The idea is that we need to be the healthiest self, in all aspects of our lives, that we can be for ourselves and therefore that will reflect and be seen by our clients/patients and fellow medical staff.