Main description:

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.

Contents:

1. The Nursing Roadmap to Lifestyle Medicine

2. Nutrition and Nursing Practice

3. Structured Exercise, Lifestyle Physical Activity, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases

4. Sleep Science

5. Emotional Wellness and Stress Resilience

6. Happiness and Social Connectivity

7. Substance Use Risk Reduction

8. Environmental Toxins

9. Self-Care Including the History of the Nurses' Code

10. Theories Around Self-Promotion and Self-Management

11. Nurse as Patient

12. Effects of Disease on Families and Support Systems

13. Health Disparities

14. Preventing, Treating and Reversing Chronic Disease with Nutritional Interventions

15. Hypertension

16. Impact of Lifestyle on Cardiometabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes

17. Obesity and Weight Management

18. Dyslipidemia

19. Autoimmune Disease

20. Cancer

21. Cognitive Disorders and Lifestyle Change

22. Mental Health in Lifestyle Medicine

23. Tobacco Products: Risk Reduction and Cessation

24. How Often Do You Think About Oral Health as an Essential Part of Wellness and a Healthy Lifestyle?

25. Men's Health: Special Considerations

26. Midwifery Approach to Lifestyle Medicine for Reproductive Health

27. Pediatric Health

28. Optimizing Function and Physical Health in Frail Adults

29. Spiritual Care: Practice Implications

30. Empowering Patients toward Motivation and Maintenance to Change

31. Mindfulness and Meditation Practices

32. Promoting Optimal Lifestyle Behaviors: Strategies and Resources

33. Digital Therapeutics