Developing a toolkit to enhance nursing students’ health promotion practice
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Evidence and practice    

Developing a toolkit to enhance nursing students’ health promotion practice

Rebecca Reynolds , Lecturer in children’s nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England
Sarah Neill , Professor of nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England

Why you should read this article:
  • To recognise barriers to nursing students’ health promotion practice

  • To read about nursing students’ and practice supervisors’ views and attitudes towards students’ health promotion practice

  • To be aware of evidence-based resources that may be included in a toolkit to enhance nursing student’s health promotion practice

Health promotion should underpin undergraduate nursing curricula but approaches to teaching nursing students about health promotion vary widely and are rarely evaluated. A practice development project was undertaken to develop a toolkit of resources that would enhance the health promotion practice of nursing students on placements in community settings. The project was a collaboration between a community public health nursing team and a university in the south west of England. It involved students from one cohort of first-year children’s nursing students and practice supervisors from a community placement setting. The authors used an emancipatory practice development methodology to explore the views and attitudes of five nursing students and 11 practice supervisors. The findings were used to develop a toolkit of resources that could enhance nursing students’ health promotion practice.

Primary Health Care. doi: 10.7748/phc.2023.e1812

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This article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software

@becksreynolds

Correspondence

rebecca.reynolds@plymouth.ac.uk

Conflict of interest

None declared

Reynolds R, Neill S (2023) Developing a toolkit to enhance nursing students’ health promotion practice. Primary Health Care. doi: 10.7748/phc.2023.e1812

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the nursing students and community public health nursing team who participated in this practice development project

Published online: 19 October 2023

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