Health Promotion and Maintenance of Health Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 452: Capstone

Health Promotion and Maintenance of Health Introduction The NSCB-Nursing offers a NCLEX-RN examination blueprint that references the four main categories of clinical problems facing the nursing world today. Currently one of those four main problems are health promotion and maintenance of health and within that category falls the issue of Postpartum Depression(PPD) which current numbers show may plague up to as many as 1 million women per year I the United States alone[Pos16]. Health promotion and maintenance of health is on the NSCB-Nursing examination blueprint as a top nursing concern and something that all nurses should be concerned about in their everyday nursing practice to ensure growth in the field and maintenance of better health in the future[Nat17