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Finding solutions through empowerment: a preliminary study of a solution‐orientated approach to nursing in acute psychiatric settings
Author(s) -
STEVENSON C.,
JACKSON S.,
BARKER P.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2850.2003.00644.x
Subject(s) - nursing , context (archaeology) , documentation , medicine , perspective (graphical) , empowerment , medline , acute care , paleontology , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , law , biology , programming language , health care , economics , economic growth
Acute inpatient care is not a therapeutic milieu, perhaps owing to the lack of nursing skills. Solution‐focused therapy (SFT) has been successful in US inpatient facilities in relation to both objective and subjective ‘measures’. This paper reports a study of SFT in a UK context, with the aim of developing a user‐friendly SFT training course and assessing its impact on both nurses and clients, via a multifaceted, triangulated data collection design. Nurses’ knowledge and clinical performance were assessed, as was the client's perspective. There was a significant difference in nurses’ SFT knowledge after training and strong evidence of the model being used in practice during the course of training, although nursing documentation was not fully completed. Eighty‐three per cent of nurses said that they would continue using the model, and clients found the SFT approach helpful. The findings match the US experience of using SFT.