This review aimed to describe the concept of health promotion in nursing as one of the domains of nursing practice. Among three-thousand five hundred four (n=3,504) articles from EBSCO, Medline, and Web of Science regarding the health promotion practices in different fields of nursing, only 29 were selected based on the eligibility criteria. Two themes have emerged with five subthemes were developed. The first theme is the health promotion barriers with a subtheme of financial barriers in attaining health promotion and addressing health literacy while the second theme is the health promotion field practices with a subtheme of hospital health promotion set-up, community health promotion set-up, and school health promotion set-up. This literature emphasized that health promotion is important especially in attaining wellness among client/s as well as providing nursing services.

ORCID for all authors: Christian Jay S. Orte, PhD, RN (ORCID No. 0000-0002-7230-9491)

Ngozi O.B. Nwosu, PhD (c), MAN (ORCID No. 0000-0002-2823-7355)

Jestoni D. Maniago, DNS, RN (ORCID No. 0000-0002-8603-3094)

Ruby S. Matibag, EdD, RN (ORCID No. 0000-0002-6360-0391)

Alma N. Corpuz, EdD, RMT (ORCID No. 0000-0002-0477-8317)

Johdel C. Cabaluna (ORCID No. 0000-0002-8289-5973)

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Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Authors' contributions:

C.J.S.O., N.O.B.N., J.D.M., R.S.M., A.M.C., J.C.C. conceived and planned the study. C.J.S.O., N.O.B.N., J.D.M. carried out the data collection. C.J.S.O., J.D.M., R.S.M., A.M.C., J.C.C. contributed to the interpretation of the results. C.J.S.O., J.D.M. took the lead in writing the manuscript. All authors provided critical feedback and helped shape the research, analysis and manuscript.

Acknowledgment: The authors would like to thank their institutions for the support in conducting this research.

Financial support and sponsorship: This study was funded by the researchers themselves.

Keywords: community health promotion; health education; health literacy; health service settings; nursing