[1] Nola J. Pender, PhD, RN, FAAN earned her BS in 1964 and her MA in 1965 from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.
She said that she was influenced by a doctoral advisor named James Hall, who studied how people's thoughts shape their motivations and behaviors.
[3] She has also written a textbook, Health Promotion in Nursing Practice; several editions of the book have been published.
[6] Directed at improving an overall sense of well-being, Pender's model considers the holistic needs of each individual and their relationship with the environment to predict and explain health promoting behaviors.
[6] The purpose of the model is to assist nurses in understanding factors that affect health-promoting behaviors.