CNA343: Strengths-Based Nursing Care Report: Patient Outcomes

This report focuses on Strengths-Based Nursing Care (SBNC) and its application in healthcare, as well as the impact on patient and family outcomes. The report starts by defining SBNC and its core principles, emphasizing the shift from focusing on disease to the individual's strengths and capabilities. It then explores how SBNC influences patient and family outcomes by promoting health, facilitating healing, and fostering a strong nurse-patient relationship. The report also provides examples of how SBNC can complement the medical model, using a personal experience to illustrate its practical application. The report highlights the importance of SBNC in healthcare and its potential to transform nursing practices and improve patient care across the lifespan, aligning with the CNA343 course objectives.

RUNNING HEADER: STRENGTHS-BASED NURSING AND HEALTHCARE 1
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

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goal. The SBNC builds on working with teams, systems, and people in a bid to have the most out
of them in terms of their strengths. It's a relationship to the health and wellbeing outcomes of
individuals is that it is focused on restoring the person-nurse relationship in order to promote
their personal healing and health, (Lind, 2008. ).
The healthcare systems is a major player which can be turned around through improved nursing.
The SBNC allows nurses to create their own direction through a clear vision which will provide
transformation for itself. Based on their large numbers, they are well placed to bring along the
transformation that is required due to their ability to take care of people across all forms. It’s
relationship also provides a new model that gives room for partnering, (Schein, 2005. )
Its implications on a person's lifespan are that it will greatly improve given its new approach to
the nursing practices.
Criterion 3: Provides examples of Strengths-based nursing care that complements a
medical model of healthcare.
Since the biomedical model primarily focuses on the individual’s disease rather than the person,
the SBNC complements it. (Gottlieb, 2014).
A personal experience of Eleanor Johnson was 45 years. She narrates that she had never been
sick for those years. Unfortunately, an accident happened and she brushed her arm against a solid
lump. While doing her exercise, she noticed something abnormal. An aspiration needle was
removed by the doctor the next morning which caused her so much anxiety. The doctor broke the
news to her that she was suffering from cancer and that she needed to book for a surgery and
chemotherapy.

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What stood for Eleanor is that she took cull control of her health care. She made decisions on the
kind of oncologist she needed and especially one that would fit her own way of doing things. The
biopsy report revealed that she was extremely grim and on stage 4 of an aggressive tumor. She
made a decision based on a team approach. Normally, an individual’s personal response to
treatment is not considered stastically. The oncologist’s encouraging words lifted her spirit. This
example clearly displays how the SBNC complements with the medical model of healthcare.
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