Solution-focused Nursing – Rethinking Practice
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Solution-focused Nursing – Rethinking Practice
Magaret McAllisterPalgrave MacmillanISBN 1 40394 627 2
Keywords: Managing change, Quality frameworks, Patient centred care
This book discusses an innovative approach to nursing practice. Solution-focused nursing is a practical philosophy which emphasises change at three levels: the client, nursing and society. It teaches three important principles: to be cautious of dominant paradigms, to focus not only on problems but solutions too, and to work with and for clients rather than on them. Solution-Focused Nursing challenges common assumptions about care and provides a framework for nursing that is not just technical, but psychosocial too.
Contents include:
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Part one: principles of solution focused nursing:
“An introduction to solution focused nursing”, M. McAllister.
“Cultural roots and new developments in nursing”, M. Clinton.
“The spirit of SFN: making change at three levels”, M. McAllister.
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Part two: contexts of nursing care:
“Families in transition: early parenting”, J. Rowe and M. Barnes.
“Working it out together: being solution-focused in the way we nurse with children and their families”, B. Carter.
“Learning disabilities and solution focused nursing” M. Musker.
“Youth work”, M..McAllister.
“Expanding nurses’ capabilities in acute care”, A. Henderson.
“Solution-focused mental health nursing”, K. Walsh and C. Moss.
“Solution-focused nursing with survivors of sexual violence: a cultural context”, M. De Chesnay.
“Living with chronic illness”, G..Gardner and A. Gardner.
“Transitions in aging: a focus on dementia care nursing”, T. Adams and W. Moyle.
“Facilitating family, friends and community transition through the experience of loss”, P. Morrison.
“Helping other people to be solution focused”, M. McAllister.
