Journal article
Solution focused nursing: A fitting model for mental health nurses working in a public health paradigm
Contemporary Nurse, Vol.34(2), pp.149-157
2010
Abstract
The current national health agenda is advocating an extension of public health principles across all levels of the health sector. Since mental health nurses have long been proponents of public health and health promoting behaviours, an opportunity exists for this specialty of nursing to extend their influence and contribution within health. Solution Focused Nursing (SFN), a model that emerged from mental health practice, offers a framework to assist mental health nurses and leaders to more clearly practise public health principles within nursing and articulate that practice - for it is in the articulation of practice that nurses and nursing is made visible and valued. This paper aims to expand on and reiterate the model known as Solution Focused Nursing, showing how it connects to public health principles and develops the mental health nurse's role - particularly in those clinical areas that require more than medical management and illness stabilization.
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- Title
- Solution focused nursing: A fitting model for mental health nurses working in a public health paradigm
- Authors
- Margaret McAllister (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
- Publication details
- Contemporary Nurse, Vol.34(2), pp.149-157
- Publisher
- EContent Management Pty Ltd
- Date published
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.5172/conu.2010.34.2.149
- ISSN
- 1037-6178
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449316002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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