Nola Pender

Nola Pender and the Health Promotion Model (Alligood & Tomey, 2010).

Check out this youtube video and see what Nola Pender says about her Health Promotion Model.

Pender published "A Conceptual Model for Preventative Health Behavior" in 1975 and was a study of how people made decisions about health in a nursing context. It was a listing of factors that influenced (both good and bad) peoples actions and how they approached health and disease prevention. 

In 1982 she published the original edition of the Health Promotion Model. It was later revised after research and a second edition was published in 1987, followed a 3rd edition in 1996, a 4th in 2002, and a fifth edition in 2006. 

Check out these websites for additional information

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069052/

http://www.clayton.edu/health/nursing/nursingtheory

http://rcb.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/04/0034355212440732.abstract

Just to lighten the mood about nursing theory....

Nola Pender and the Health Promotion Model is my favorite nursing theorist. I also believe that if you can teach patients and the community about disease prevention and health promotion, then healthcare as a whole would be more effective and beneficial.

What are your thoughts?



References

Alligood, M. R. & Tomey, A. M. (2010). Nursing theorists and their work (7th ed.). Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby Elsevier.