Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
by Carol Lynn Mandle PhD AP RN CNS FNP, Carole Lium Edelman APRN MS CS BC CMC
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Author: Carol Lynn Mandle PhD AP RN CNS FNP, Carole Lium Edelman APRN MS CS BC CMCEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-23
ISBN: 0323031285
Number of pages: 720
Publisher: Elsevier/Mosby
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Book Review: The Worst Textbook Ever
Summary: 1 Stars
As another reviewer observed, this textbook is about health and wellness as much as a cookbook is about farming. It's an insipid mishmash of sociological jargon, a smorgasbord of breathless passages like "A central unifying theme has historically linked definitions, philosophies, and frameworks of nursing, known as holistic attention to pattern recognition during the examination of person-environment relationships throughout the life span." There's enough postmodern hot air in these pages to inflate a fleet of Goodyear blimps.
In this book is an obsession with classifying every phenomena regarding the functioning of the human body as a process within a pattern within society. No connection is too tortured for the various authors; consider this labored definition of food intake as an example of the so-called "individual environmental focus of Gordon's framework. Although reference is made within many patterns to environmental influence, it often refers to the physical environment within and external to the individual. Common to each functional health pattern are environmental influences such as role relationships, family values, and societal mores. Personal preference, knowledge of food preparation, and ability to consume and retain food govern the individual's intake. Cultural and family habits, financial ability to secure the food, and crop availability also influence food intake. Additionally, the person who secures, prepares, and serves the food, such as the mother or father, controls nutritional intake for children."
I dare anybody, including the author of that horrendous passage, to explain to me what in the name of God any of that has to do with actual intake of food by actual persons. To my educated eye it seems that half the paragraph is some sort of convoluted explanation of why the rest of the explanation should be taken seriously!
Within these pages is an apparent attempt to define nursing as some sort of New Age-y, biopsychosocial-holistic-wellness pseudoscience that has little to do with actually improving the health of living people, and everything to do with ensuring its authors and editors get more grant money to blow studying the biopsychosocialspiritual effects of maple tree aesthetics on the anxiety problems of 2nd graders with ADD. You'll read about interpersonal energy flows; you'll read sentences like "blood pressure, for example, is a pattern within the activity and exercise pattern." If you're like me, you'll grow more and more enraged as Brobdingnagian helpings of silly vocabulary and infuriating functional redefinitions of words like "disease" ("The failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances") and "health" ("A state of physical, mental, and social functioning that realizes the potential of which a person is capable") are smeared on page after page like so much flung scat.
Woven through the textbook like barbed wire is the assumption that the government, especially the federal government, should be the cure-all for societies ills, especially those of disadvantaged minorities. Paragraph which talk about various federal initiatives to combat various public health issues are too numerous to count. Individual responsibility is most definitely NOT a theme here; in fact, were I a "disadvantaged minority" I'd be frankly upset at the amount of condescending paternalism evinced by the authors.
For any nurse educators who stumble across this review, I beg you to forgo this particular textbook. If you choose to use it, your students are going to spend time laughing at it that they could be spending learning something useful. My study groups have had a great time picking various passages apart (and by doing so discovering just how utterly incomprehensible most of this book really is).
To the authors of this weak-minded nonsense, shame on you. You've no business trying to pass any of this bunk off as the art and science of nursing- in fact, you've got no business taking it anywhere but your sociology classes. The lot of you are preening PC New Age pseudo-intellectuals who wouldn't know scientific method if it crawled down your throat. I've managed to persuade my nursing department to ditch this atrocity, and I hope all other schools follow suit.
Summary of Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
This comprehensive text provides the most current and accurate health promotion and disease prevention information available. The book addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups - individuals, families, and communities. It includes extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span, with an emphasis on normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. A complete unit is devoted to health promotion interventions. It also offers a unique assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health.- Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span.
- A unit on specific interventions for health promotion.
- Addresses health promotion for all population groups - individual, family, and the community.
- Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a "real-life" perspective.
- Innovative Practice examples highlight unique and creative health promotion programs.
- Summarizes specific clinical interventions in Health Teaching boxes to provide students with "how-to" nursing actions.
- Think About It clinical scenarios provide critical thinking questions to help readers grasp important concepts.
- Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning.
- Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics.
- Research Highlights emphasize current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion.
- A new Study Questions section (with answers and rationales) helps you review and assess your understanding of chapter content.
- Care Plans are presented in a consistent format: Nursing Diagnosis, Defining Characteristics, Related Factors, Expected Outcomes, and Interventions.
- Healthy People 2010 boxes highlight current national health promotion priorities.
- A new full-color design helps to highlight important features and content.
- A new companion Evolve website offers case studies with questions and answers, WebLinks, content updates, and a Glossary with search capability to enhance your learning experience.
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