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Public Health

Lifestyle nursing: a leadership opportunity for UK nurses

05 September 2024
Professional
02 September 2024
Volume 33 · Issue 16

Abstract

This article aims to consider the ‘lifestyle medicine’ approach to nursing, which focuses on patients with conditions that would benefit from a lifestyle nursing approach, supporting and empowering people to make lifestyle changes that would benefit their health. Lifestyle medicine in nursing is gaining momentum in the USA and could be a nursing leadership opportunity in the UK. This article explores the importance of lifestyle approaches to health care and why nurses have a pivotal role in the movement.

Health promotion is a key element of nursing practice, with the UK nursing regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018) expecting registrants, regardless of role, area of practice or position, to promote health and wellbeing at every opportunity. Health promotion should be a priority for communities, governments and health care at strategic levels. The latest figures from the NMC show there are 765 051 nurse registrants in the UK (NMC, 2024). They have an opportunity to make a difference to population health by leading in lifestyle approaches to health, health promotion and disease prevention and reversal.

Health care in the UK is changing in response to an increasing number of people living with chronic diseases and multiple, often long-term, conditions. With a stronger focus on person-centred evidence-based practice and care delivery, nurses leading in the area of health promotion based on lifestyle approaches and interventions have an opportunity to make and encourage change in people's lives.

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