Nursing

Motivational Interviewing is a powerful tool in patient-centered care.  It incorporates four themes: Partnership, Acceptance, Evocation, Compassion and includes four phases:  Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning.

Pick one theme to discuss in your initial post and pick one phase in your post to discuss. Your description of both theme and phase should include description and  provide an example that would provide additional clarification.

Please see pages 265-273 in your textbook and use one additional resource such as journal article.

you must have in-text citation and a reference list in APA format.