Implementation strategies for an inpatient women's support group.

Abstract

The authors believe an inpatient women's group to be a supportive and educative nursing intervention that, when adjunctively combined with other inpatient therapy forms, assists women to resolve sex-role conflicts. Use of the nursing audit, review of relevant literature, development of a group philosophy, objectives, and appropriate credentialing of nurse group facilitators are strategies that maximize group effectiveness. Moreover, group content, which is determined from the client's perspectives of need, and evaluated by behavioral changes among client participants, insures sustained program relevancy.