Nursing 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter week 3: Personality Disorder
9 Dec 2016
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Strengths define a person"s and family"s uniqueness. Nurses need to know a persons strengths in order to understand how to capitalize and mobilize them in order to support the person during health and illness, and in times of suffering, recovery and healing. The word strength is an umbrella term that includes both the internal qualities of a person or unit and the external resources available to them. The word strength has been used in may different ways, for example, to describe materials to denote a virtue and to evaluate the likelihood of success. Strengths can be understood in relation to weaknesses or deficits; that is, if something is considered strong, this implies that it is not weak, and if something is deemed weak, then it cannot be strong. Strengths are not the opposite of weaknesses; they are a distinct and separate class of qualities, capabilities, competencies, capacities, and skills that coexist with weakness.
