Promoting Health Behavior

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the advance practice nurse's role in affecting health behavior change. Relationships among health behaviors and health status are examined to include education and structural approaches to the modification of those behaviors, ethics of health promotion, sites for health promotion activities, and evaluation of health promotion. Theoretical models of behavior change, and primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention concepts serve as a basis for developing nursing interventions that promote behavior change.