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Edelman and Kudzma's Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

  • 1st Edition - July 23, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Shannon Dames, Marian Luctkar-Flude, Jane Tyerman
  • Language: English

Learn the ins and outs of health promotion and disease prevention in Canada with Edelman and Kudzma’s Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span. This all-new, compre… Read more

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Learn the ins and outs of health promotion and disease prevention in Canada with Edelman and Kudzma’s Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span. This all-new, comprehensive text grounds you in the Canadian health objectives for promotion and prevention which aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups. Among the text’s chapters you’ll find extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span — including coverage of the normal aspects, the unique problems, and the health promotion needs that are found in each age and stage of development. Separate chapters discuss each population group — the individual, the family, and the community — and highlight the unique aspects of caring for each of these groups. In all, this comprehensive and culturally relevant text provides all the tools needed to stay up on the latest research and topics in Canadian health promotion.

Key features

  • Comprehensive Canadian coverage incorporates Canadian statistics, research, references and resources, guidelines, assessment and screening tools, and more
  • Focus on research is seen throughout the text with Research for Evidence-Informed Practice boxes providing brief synopses on current health-promotion research studies that demonstrate the links between research, theory, and practice
  • Canadian author team provides a Canadian lens on all topics spanning health promotion and disease prevention
  • Emphasis on health promotion and social justice on a societal level weaves in the social determinants of health throughout the text; incorporating the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Population Health Approach model; the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion; WHO and Alma-Ata Declaration; human rights; the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action recommendations
  • Canadian cultural considerations are incorporated throughout the text as they relate to race/ethnicity, Indigenous peoples, identity, LGBTQ2 community, family composition, and other areas
  • Chapter on Health Defined: Health Promotion, Prevention, and Protection reflects the Canadian socio-environmental approach
  • Chapter on Diverse Populations in Canada and Health explores the Canadian demographic landscape
  • Chapter on Ethical Issues Related to Health Promotion covers the Canadian Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics, the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) and Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), Bill C-14: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), principles of bioethics, and more
  • Reflection questions included in Diversity Awareness boxes allow readers to reflect on their own personal cultural values while presented with cultural perspectives on various aspects of health promotion
  • Culturally relevant art program reflects Canada’s cultural, economic, and ethnic diversity in the health care setting
  • In-depth discussion of nursing competencies discusses and demonstrates how they relate to health promotion
  • Public Health Agency of Canada guidelines and recommendations are woven throughout the text
  • Think About It clinical scenarios open each chapter, engaging readers and encouraging critical thinking with accompanying critical thinking questions
  • Innovative Practice boxes highlight inventive and resourceful projects, programs, and research studies that draw upon new ways of implementing health promotion
  • Case studies with reflective questions highlight realistic clinical situations and challenge readers to reflect upon important considerations
  • Care plans related to the case studies provide nursing diagnoses, defining characteristics, related factors, expected outcomes, and interventions
  • Quality and Safety Scenario boxes reflect Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) standards and present scenarios pertinent to health promotion
  • Diversity Awareness boxes offer cultural perspectives on various aspects of health promotion, along with reflection questions to promote critical thinking

Readership

Students in all health care courses teaching health promotion and wellness. Nurses practising health promotion in the community, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners

Table of contents

Unit 1: Foundations for Health Promotion

1. Health Defined: Health Promotion, Prevention, and Protection

2. Diverse Populations and Health

3. Health Policy and the Delivery System

4. The Therapeutic Relationship

5. Ethical Issues Related to Health Promotion

Unit 2: Assessment for Health Promotion

6. Health Promotion and the Individual

7. Health Promotion and the Family

8. Health Promotion and the Community

Unit 3: Application of Health Promotion

9. Overview of Growth and Development Framework

10. The Prenatal Period

11. Infant

12. Toddler

13. Preschool Child

14. School-Aged Child

15. Adolescent

16. Young Adult

17. Middle-Aged Adult

18. Older Persons

Unit 4: Interventions for Health Promotion

19. Screening

20. Health Education

21. Nutrition and Health Promotion

22. Exercise

23. Stress Management

44. Complementary and Alternative Strategies

25. Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century: Throughout the Life Span and Throughout the World

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 23, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Shannon Dames

Dr. Shannon Dames holds a doctorate degree in Education, and has worked in various capacities related to nursing, program development, and research over the last 20 years. She is a professor and researcher with the Nursing program at Vancouver Island University, and a forensic nurse examiner with Island Health. The program of research that she is focusing on centres on articulating the most significant factors that will enable meaningful and sustainable culture change in health care. Her efforts centre on seeding culture change from a bottom up (personal resilience) and top-down approach (systemic resilience). Dr. Dames is an academic journal article author, Elsevier text author and contributor, and a keynote speaker. She continues to facilitate workshops that focus on the experiential development of the core factors that enable humans to thrive. She comes to this work motivated to provide the tools necessary for us to address the international mental health crises we are facing in health care and beyond. Dr. Dames has received multiple grant awards to support her ongoing program of research, which includes collaborative endeavours with the health authority, academic institutions, and the BC Centre on Substance Use.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Hath Professional Investigator for the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research/Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation, Director of Research and Development for Roots to Thrive, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

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Marian Luctkar-Flude

Dr. Marian Luctkar-Flude received her BScN and MScN from the University of Ottawa, her critical care nursing diploma from St. Lawrence College (Kingston), and her PhD from Queen’s University (Kingston). She has over 20 years' medical–surgical nursing experience, over 20 years' experience as an educator, and was named the 2021 Reznick Scholar at Queen’s University, which honours outstanding leadership and longstanding commitment to educational scholarship. She is now an Associate Professor at Queen's University School of Nursing where she has taught Nursing Health Assessment, Nursing Research, Medical-Surgical Nursing and Project in Evidence-Based Practice courses. She has expertise in clinical simulation and curriculum development and is Co-President of the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators using Simulation (CAN-sim), which serves as a platform for simulation collaboration among health educators. Her educational research interests include use of simulation in undergraduate nursing education, interprofessional education, and virtual simulation games, and her clinical research interests include breast cancer survivorship care, neurofeedback for post-cancer cognitive impairment, and knowledge translation interventions for primary care providers and cancer survivors. Dr. Luktcar-Flude is also an editor for Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Canadian Edition.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Reznick Scholar, Health Professions Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University School of Nursing Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Jane Tyerman

Dr. Jane Tyerman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Nursing in Ottawa, Ontario. She holds a diploma in nursing from St. Lawrence College in Ottawa, Ontario; a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa; a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Athabasca University in Alberta; and a Master of Science in nursing and a PhD in nursing from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She has over 25 years of experience in acute care clinical practice and more than 15 years of academic teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) instructor with the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation. Dr. Tyerman has contributed to multiple NCLEX textbooks published by Elsevier and has been a HESI Live Review faculty member, delivering in-person and online workshops to graduating students across Canada. She is also co-editor for Lewis’s Medical-Surgical Nursing in Canada. She has made significant contributions to nursing education by advancing the pedagogy that underpins the effective use of clinical simulation and through her innovative use of technology to expand equity and access to high-quality teaching and learning resources. She is dedicated to developing and researching bilingual virtual simulation games through her role as Co-President of the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators Using Simulation (CAN-Sim). Collaborating with nurse educators across Canada and internationally, she has authored multiple publications related to simulation and virtual simulation games. .
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON., Canada