Dr. Laurie Gottlieb - Developer of SBNH

Dr. Laurie Gottlieb developed the Strengths-Based approach to care. In 2013, Dr. Gottlieb published the book Strengths-Based Nursing Care: Health and Healing for Person and Family, written in collaboration with Dr. Bruce Gottlieb. This landmark publication was the first practical guide for nurses on how to incorporate the knowledge, skills and tools of SBNH into everyday practice.

Dr. Gottlieb is a full professor at the Ingram School of Nursing and holds the Flora Madeline Shaw Chair in Nursing at 香蕉视频. She is the Nurse-Scholar in Residence at the Jewish General Hospital. Professor Gottlieb earned a BN and MSc in Nursing and a PhD in developmental psychology from 香蕉视频. She has been a member of McGill faculty since 1974 and was the Director of the School of Nursing and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1995 to 2000. From 1992-2013 she was the editor-in-chief of Canadian Journal of Nursing Research (CJNR).

International Institute of Strengths-Based Nursing and Health Care

In 2014,聽the International Institute of Strengths-Based Nursing and Health Care was founded by a group of committee individuals. The Institute's current directors are Laurie Gottlieb, Bruce Gottlieb, and Pam Hubley. The institute is dedicated to the diffusion, development and advancement of the practice of SBNH worldwide, through research, education and training, stakeholder consultation, and accreditation and certification. Visit their to learn more.聽

Partnership Development Grant

In 2016, Dr. Laurie Gottlieb was awarded a Healthy and Productive Work Partnership Development Grant (PDG) jointly funded by CIHR and SSHRC for the project 鈥淭ransforming Nurses鈥� Work-Life Environments Through Training Clinical Leaders and Managers in Strengths-Based Nursing Using Innovative Forms of Story-Sharing.鈥� Partner institutions on the partnership development grant were 香蕉视频, Concordia University, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.

With the PDG, the partners developed a Strengths-Based Leadership and Management (SB-L/M) training program which integrated the philosophy, principles, and pragmatics of SB-L/M, SBNH, and best practices of leadership and management.

Learn more about the Partnership Development Grant's activities.

SBNH at the Ingram School of Nursing

From the McGill Model to SBNH

Patient-centred care has become something of a buzz term in medicine in the past decade. But what many in the field might not know is that a patient-centred care model was pioneered by McGill nurses back in the 1950s, known as the McGill Model of Nursing, which promoted the idea that nurses, patients and families are equal partners in providing support, information, and advocacy. Patients and families are treated with respect, and listened to as individuals with personalities, preferences and histories of their own.聽

A generation of nurses trained under the McGill Model of Nursing went on to become leaders who trained the next generation of nurses. The model was adopted by hospitals across Canada, as well as internationally.聽Laurie Gottlieb, RN, PhD, FCAHS, Professor and聽Flora Madeline Shaw Chair of Nursing, then spearheaded the evolution of the McGill Model by developing Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare, a philosophy and value-driven approach to guide clinicians, leaders, and educators. SBNH聽refers聽to the strengths that nurses, patients and families are encouraged to recognize and foster in themselves and others to promote health and facilitate healing.

SBNH and McGill's Ingram School of Nursing Curriculum

In September 2017, the Ingram School of Nursing implemented a revised curriculum using the SBNH聽approach as the underlying philosophy. Students at the undergraduate and graduate level integrate the Strengths-Based approach in all aspects of their classroom and clinical learning experiences.

In a joint venture with their clinical partners, the Ingram School of Nursing is now in the process of developing online modules for nurse preceptors on the SBNH聽approach, and on how the values and principles underlying the approach can be used to guide the teaching of nursing students in the clinical settings.