1. Building Trust: Establishing a trusting relationship with patients makes them more likely to follow health advice and make positive changes.
2. Setting Realistic Goals: Helping patients set achievable health goals and providing ongoing support to reach them.
3. Utilizing Motivational Interviewing: This technique involves asking open-ended questions, providing affirmations, and using reflective listening to help patients explore and resolve ambivalence about change.
4. Providing Resources: Offering educational materials, referrals to community services, and information on support groups.
5. Modeling Healthy Behaviors: Nurses who practice healthy behaviors themselves can serve as role models for their patients.
