To improve overall health, the nurse should place highest priority on assisting a client to...

Health promotion is motivated by the desire to increase people’s well-being and health potential. The nurse promotes health by maximizing the client’s own strengths. Identification and analysis of the client’s strengths are a component of preventing illness, restoring health, and facilitating coping with disability or death. The nurse facilitates decisions about lifestyle that enhance one’s quality of life and encourage acceptance of responsibility for one’s own health.Health Promotion and Maintenance