What is Lifestyle Nursing?
Lifestyle Nursing is an evidence-based, whole-person approach that teaches nurses to prevent and improve chronic disease using ACLM's Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine — within nursing scope.
Lifestyle Nursing teaches nurses how to prevent, improve, and in many cases help reverse chronic disease by applying the principles of Lifestyle Medicine within nursing scope. It draws on the evidence base of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) — including the Six Pillars: nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, social connection, and avoidance of risky substances — and translates them into nursing-centered practice.
Rather than offering generic advice, Lifestyle Nursing teaches you to partner with patients, address barriers to change, and guide sustainable behavior shifts using behavior-change science, motivational interviewing, and nursing presence. It is grounded in nursing scope: education, assessment, partnership, support, and advocacy — not diagnosing or prescribing.
Learn more or register on the Lifestyle Nursing: A Lifestyle Medicine Framework for Nurses program page.