Why do we need a Strengths-Based Approach to Care?

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).

What guides the practice?

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.

Role of the nurse SBNC

The major role of the nurse is the creation of conditions that would offer motivation, support and encourage the individual’s health.

SBNC relationship to health and wellbeing outcomes

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 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 inorder 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. ).

Implications across the lifespan

Its implications on a person’s lifespan are that it will greatly improve given its new approach to the nursing practices.

Examples used to demonstrate a strong understanding of how SBNC complements the medical model in nursing practice.

Some of the examples are that it facilitates for the placing of the individual and his her family as the focus of the care. It also empowers individuals who may the family in helping them develop meaning in life as well as working towards succeeding in their plans and goals. It complements with the medical model because it encourages the understanding of a person as a whole. It also ensures that the individual’s history is well outlined and is well put into context in relation to the patients’ specifications.

Other examples are that it helps and encourages the individual to fully take charge of their own health. This encourages them to be responsible for their own healing processes. Lastly, it fosters the working and collaboration of three parties which include the individual, his/her family and the respective provider of healthcare, (Gottlieb, 2014. ).

References

Gottlieb, L., 2014. CE: strengths-based nursing. AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 114(8),. pp. pp.24-32.

Gottlieb, L. G. B. a. S. J., 2012. Principles of strengths-based nursing leadership for strengths-based nursing care: A new paradigm for nursing and healthcare for the 21st century. Nursing Leadership, 25(2),. s.l.:s.n.

Lind, C. a. S. D., 2008. Analyzing the state of community health nursing: Advancing from deficit to strengths-based practice using appreciative inquiry. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(1),. s.l.:s.n.

Schein, C. G. A. C. L. M. I. a. G. J., 2005. The association between specific nurse case management interventions and elder health. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 53(4),. s.l.:s.n.