Health promoting practice: the contribution of nurses and allied health professionals

300 pages. Edited by Angela Scriven

This book presents an overview of professional activities in contemporary health promotion. Chapter 4, 'A Health Promoting Empowerment Approach to Diabetes Nursing', is co-authored by Jill Rodgers and Helen Ashton. It outlines the underlying rationale for a shift away from using an acute care model in diabetes care, and the political imperative for adopting an empowerment approach to long-term conditions. It also includes insights into how this type of approach can be integrated into the routine diabetes care provided by an increasingly broad range of healthcare provides.

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