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Background: Wellness programs traditionally focus on achieving outcomes such as health improvement, lowered health risks, decreased absenteeism, improved morale and decreased health care costs. Many programs emphasize physical wellness with more recent inclusion of social, emotional, and environmental dimensions. That change is referenced as the migration of wellness programs into well-being efforts., Objective: Addressing all elements of well-being is critical for effective wellness program delivery., Design: Recognition of the positive impact related to community well-being is growing in the literature. When people connect with others at work and develop positive and effective relationships across boundaries, a culture of health grows within organizations., Results and Conclusions: This paper reviews three community well-being initiatives implemented within one university worksite and describes the effectiveness of such programs in building community well-being., (© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of a holistic program, the Collaborative Care Model (CCM) Program, and the development of a self-care plan on health-promoting behaviors in hospital nurses., Design: A quasi-experimental, pretest, posttest, repeated measure, comparison-group design was used., Method: The study was conducted in a large, academic medical center in the northeast. The experimental group included registered nurses (RNs) from units in one institution introduced to the CCM and development of a self-care plan in an 8-hour program. The control group received no intervention. Data were collected using the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II instrument (HPLP II); a 52-question Likert-type scale with six subscales examining health-promoting behaviors., Findings: Using repeated measures analysis of variance there was a significant increase (p = .02) in the overall HPLP II mean, spirituality ( p = .04), interpersonal relations (p = .04), and nutrition scores (p = .04) of the experimental group as compared over time with the control group., Conclusions: The CCM plus the development of a self-care plan significantly increased overall health promoting behaviors, and spirituality, interpersonal relations, and nutrition scores in these RNs.

Background: Wellness programs traditionally focus on achieving outcomes such as health improvement, lowered health risks, decreased absenteeism, improved morale and decreased health care costs. Many programs emphasize physical wellness with more recent inclusion of social, emotional, and environmental dimensions. That change is referenced as the migration of wellness programs into well‐being efforts. Objective: Addressing all elements of well‐being is critical for effective wellness program delivery. Design: Recognition of the positive impact related to community well‐being is growing in the literature. When people connect with others at work and develop positive and effective relationships across boundaries, a culture of health grows within organizations. Results and Conclusions: This paper reviews three community well‐being initiatives implemented within one university worksite and describes the effectiveness of such programs in building community well‐being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]