Strengths-based Nursing and Healthcare

RUNNING HEADER: STRENGTHS-BASED NURSING AND HEALTHCARE
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STRENGTHS-BASED NURSING AND HEALTHCARE.
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STRENGTHS-BASED NURSING AND HEALTHCARE.
Criterion 1: Demonstrates understanding of the Strengths-based nursing care (SBNC)
approach.
This is because it focuses majorly on the whole individual, also checks at what is functioning and
working well. It also brings out what an individual can do best, working to raise resources that
will help individuals deal with their lives in a better way which includes health care and their
health. It also answers the question of how best nurses can do their jobs to supporting what
works with an aim of helping the patients, families and the community at large in handling,
developing, growing and transforming their lives. It takes the nurses back to their basics of
focusing more on the individual’s personhood rather than their diseases and problems. With this,
health care professionals and nurses gain more appreciation for their clients, the patients and
their families at large. Overly, SBNC makes a representation of a radical shift of thoughts and
innovative ideas as it brings a new way of doing things, (Gottlieb, 2012).
SBNC is mainly guided by beliefs, the values and also the attitudes that guide the nurses as they
make their day-to-day decisions. The practice decisions are also guided by the SBNC because it
shapes and reforms the professional identity of the nurse.
Criterion 2: Demonstrates understanding of patient and family outcomes.
The major role of the nurse is the creation of conditions that would offer motivation, support and
encourage the individual’s health.
SBNC promotes an individual's health and also facilitates the healing of and individual through
capitalizing on the strengths of a person. It is concerned with uncovering the interpersonal
strengths that help in working out of the health challenges that contribute to the overall system