*PRE-ORDER, APPROX 2-4 BUSINESS DAYS* Strengths-Based Nursing Care by Laurie N. Gottlieb 9780826195869 [ZZ]

health and healing for person and family. Paperback, Springer

This is the first book to provide an in-depth exploration of strengths-based nursing care. It includes personal stories from practicing nurses and expert consultants using SBC, which enhances interest and credibility. It is filled with exercises and examples to help educators or nurses include SBC in their practice. As Dr. Benner states, the book is 'accessible and easy to read but requires much personal and professional reflection.'" Score: 98, 5 Stars.--Doody's Medical Reviews

[This book] is refreshing and timely. In 10 clearly written chapters, Dr. Gottlieb presents the theoretical foundations for strengths-based nursing care (SBNC), and provides practice-oriented examples and strategies for the integration of a human values-based approach that honors and supports transformative professional nursing."--Nursing Forum

I enthusiastically recommend this book for every introduction to nursing course, and equally for graduate nurses in Advanced Nursing Practice Master's programs and nurses currently engaged in practice. This book is one of those rare treats that put into words what expert nurses come to know and experience over time in their best practice. By giving clarity, insight and rigor to a central, but poorly understood value and wisdom embedded in the best of nursing practice, Dr. Laurie Gottlieb has given back to nursing a stronger, clearer self-understanding and social grasp of the best that nursing has to offer--Strengths Based Care can inform all diagnoses, health care design, and implementation.

Key Features:

• Provides the first complete, foundational, and practical textbook on Strength-Based Nursing Care
• Teaches how to identify, engage, and nurture existing and new strengths to enhance health and healing
• Integrates testimony and clinical insights from 46 nurses using SBC in clinical practice
• Emphasizes clinical and critical inquiry, clinical grasp and judgment, decision-making, and evidence-based practice