Nursing 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Unstable Angina, Fall Prevention, Myocardial Infarction
23 Mar 2018
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Why a strengths-based approach to care?- reading pg. 16- Patient/ person empowerment movement: the idea of empowerment derives from the social action movements of the. Health promotion, illness prevention, self-care culture: the majority of health care dollars are spent on diagnosing and treating disease. Creating goodness of fit environments: when the demands of the environment do not overly exceed the person"s capabilities, capacities, and competencies, then there is a good fit, opposite- situations add stress and burden, are poor healing environments. Important for nurses to understand their patients, what they and their families are going through, and what they need in a given situation and at a given point in time. Part 1: approaches for working with existing strengths. Es 4: teach people how to discover their own strengths. Es 5: avoid using diagnostic label to describe the person: treat the patient as a person, not defined by disease.
