TY - JOUR AU - MacDonald, Christina AU - Benc, Renata AU - Buono, Anna T. AU - Champagne, Louise AU - Chartier, Gabrielle AU - Cooke, Andrea AU - Drummond, Nancy AU - Gartshore, Kim AU - Ehrler, Antoinette AU - Gottlieb, Laurie PY - 2018/01/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Strength based nursing: caring for the whole person JF - The International Journal of Whole Person Care JA - IJWPC VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Congress 2017 DO - 10.26443/ijwpc.v5i1.173 UR - https://ijwpc.mcgill.ca/article/view/173 SP - AB - <p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Strengths-Based Nursing (SBN) is an integrated value-driven approach based on a philosophy of care to guide actions. It consists of eight values which guide nursing practice to promote care of the whole person and family.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">SBN promotes empowerment, collaborative partnership, innate health and healing, authentic relationships while focusing on enhancing and developing strengths to cope with challenges and minimize, contain or circumvent that which is not working.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Our poster will illustrate the basics of SBN and how it can be utilized in the promotion of whole person care.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Conclusion: SBN has enlarged our perspective, broadened our skilled-know how, and opened us to new ways of caring for persons and families dealing with cancer. It has also given us insights into our nursing practices and illustrates the importance these eight values have in supporting development of whole person care.</span></p> ER -