Gain the knowledge and skills you need to promote health and prevent disease in Canada!
Edelman and Kudzma's Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, Second Edition describes public health concepts from a Canadian perspective,
helping you to improve community health and reduce health inequities within a diverse population
. Covering the needs of each age and stage of life, this book discusses care of the individual, family, and community - all based on the latest research and trends in Canadian health promotion. New chapters address the timely topics of Indigenous health and 2SLGTBQI+ health. Written by respected Canadian educators Marian Luctkar-Flude, Shannon Dames, and Jane Tyerman, this book is the only Canadian nursing health promotion text on the market.
- NEW Indigenous Health and 2SLGTBQI+ Health chapters provide coverage of the health challenges and health promotion initiatives relating to these populations
- NEW! Coverage of global and environmental health includes global trends in health promotion, the rise of communicable diseases such as cholera and COVID-19, climate disasters, malnutrition, violence and crime, cultural competency, future health outcomes, and more
- NEW! Additional case studies highlight realistic clinical situations, with questions to encourage critical thinking
- NEW! Examination review questions in multiple-choice format strengthen your clinical judgement and help you prepare for licensure exams
- NEW! Canadian statistics, research, references, resources, and more are updated for this edition
- NEW! Case studies for the Next Generation NCLEX(R) Exam are included on the Evolve website
- Comprehensive, easy-to-read Canadian coverage incorporates Canadian statistics, research, guidelines, assessment and screening tools, references and resources, and more
- Canadian author team provides a Canadian lens on all topics spanning health promotion and disease prevention
- Emphasis on health promotion and social justice weaves in the social determinants of health including the Public Health Agency of Canada's Population Health Approach model, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, the WHO's Alma-Ata Declaration, human rights, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action
- Canadian cultural considerations throughout the text relate to race/ethnicity, Indigenous peoples, identity, 2SLGBTQI+ community, family composition, and other areas
- Innovative Practice boxes highlight projects, programs, and research studies that show new ways to implement health promotion
- Diversity Awareness boxes offer cultural perspectives on health promotion, and include reflection questions asking you to think about your own personal cultural values
- Quality and Safety Scenario boxes reflect Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) standards and present situations pertinent to health promotion
- Care plans accompany the case studies, providing nursing diagnoses, defining characteristics, related factors, expected outcomes, and interventions
- Research for Evidence-Informed Practice boxes provide brief synopses of health-promotion research studies that demonstrate the links between research, theory, and practice
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
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.
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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.
