This book discusses how solution focused approaches can be incorporated into nursing practices and demonstrates it effectiveness. Solution-focused nursing is a practical philosophy which emphasizes change at three levels: the client, nursing and society. It explores three important principles:
"Solution-Focused Nursing" challenges common assumptions about care and provides a framework for nursing that is not just technical, but psychosocial too.
Author Margaret McAllister is Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia.
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Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam jar; deaf, wild, disturbed, stupid, insane... In her own words, she was a Nobody Nowhere as she swung violently between a battle to join the world and a battle to keep the world out, a battle she waged from where she lived in what she called a world under glass. Nobody Nowhere is disturbing, eloquent and ticklishly funny: an account of the soul of someone who lived the word autism and survived an unsympathetic environment despite intense... More info
