Analyzing the state of community health nursing: Advancing from deficit to strengths-based practice using appreciative inquiry

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-41

  Lind, Candace ^a   Smith, Dawn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activism; Adolescents; Appreciative inquiry; Community health nursing; First Nations; Health promotion; Primary healthcaresocial justice; Strengths based

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; CANADA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PROCEDURES; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 67650000572     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ANS.0000311527.35446.4c     Document Type: Article

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