The use of brief therapy as part of the nursing care plan

Care plans provide a framework for improving nurse-client communication, increasing the focus on individuals' needs and improving communication between nurses. In order for these benefits to be achieved, the nurse must have an understanding of these and other potential benefits, and the skills to make the process of paperwork as indistinguishable as possible from the process of helping the individual client. This paper describes how the concepts of brief therapy provide one means of achieving this goal.