Strengths-Based Nursing Care - Health and Healing for Person and Family

Cover......Page 1
About the author......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Our Expert Consultants......Page 10
Our Frontline Nurses......Page 16
Foreword......Page 18
Preface......Page 22
Acknowledgments......Page 32
1: Why a Strengths-Based Approach to Care?......Page 36
2: What Guides Practice?......Page 70
3: Values Underlying Strengths-Based Nursing Care......Page 91
4: What Are Strengths? Characteristics of Strengths......Page 139
5: Essential Nurse Qualities Required for Strengths-Based Care......Page 164
6: Retraining the Eight Senses for Nursing Practice......Page 198
7: Nursing’s Professional Gaze: Observations for Clinical Judgment and Decision Making......Page 238
8: Reforming Skills of Social Involvement: Attunement, Authentic Presence, Attentive Listening, and Clinical Conversation......Page 287
9: The Spiraling Processfor Uncovering and Discovering Strengths......Page 348
10: Approaches for Working With Strengths......Page 385
References......Page 416
Index......Page 436
Back cover......Page 450