title: Health promotion: a viable curriculum framework for nursing education.
abstract: Health care will be increasingly focused on the principles of health promotion and primary health care to better meet society's health needs. Nursing has an opportunity to lead the way in primary health care, however, for nurses to realize their potential, educational programs must be radically revised and be developed to teach nurses to work from a health-promotion perspective. Only when nurses have fully incorporated the principles of health promotion into their repertoire of working with clients and colleagues will they be the desired and appropriate profession to lead health care into the future.
authors.affiliation: University of Victoria, School of Nursing, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Hills
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lindsey
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D016730:Program Development