In addition to many other crucial responsibilities, their primary focus lies in the prevention of disease by encouraging an individual to make positive adjustments to his or her life so that the ideal health can be attained. For this program to be a success, it is essential that nurses should drive a patient’s focus to proper educational and counselling programs which would encourage engaging in adequate physical activity, indulging in a balanced diet while minimizing the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco. Clinical nursing practice, the appropriate discussion, following the proper protocol of treatment follow-up, teaching the patient how to be healthy and preventing sickness are all important roles of a nurse. Effectively carrying out these roles will greatly help improve the health care services accessibility, reduction of chronic disease symptoms, increased cost-efficiency and better consumer’s health care service experience (Strömberg et al., 2003; Griffiths et al., 2007). Loyalty, life excellence the patients’ ability to learn about their disease and manage their health by themselves are some positive outcomes that could possibly result from a successful promotion of health on behalf of the …show more content…
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