Strengths-based nursing care : health and healing for person and family /

"This is the first practical guide for nurses on how to incorporate the knowledge, skills, and tools of Strength-Based Nursing Care (SBC) into everyday practice. The text, based on a model developed by the prestigious McGill University Nursing Program, signifies a paradigm shift in nursing care...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gottlieb, Laurie
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Gottlieb, Bruce
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Publishing Company, [2013]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Why a strengths-based approach to care?
  • What guides practice?
  • Values underlying strengths-based nursing care
  • What are strengths? Characteristics of strengths
  • Essential nurse qualities required for strengths-based care
  • Retraining the eight senses for nursing practice
  • Nursing's professional gaze : observations for clinical judgment and decision making
  • Reforming skills of social involvement : attunement, authentic presence, attentive listening, and clinical conversation
  • The spiraling process for uncovering and discovering strengths
  • Approaches for working with strengths.