Motivational Interviewing for Nurses: Patient-Centered Communication Scripts and Practical MI Conversations for Medication Adherence, Lifestyle Change, and Difficult Patient Encounters in Frontline Healthcare

Every nurse has had this experience. You explain a care plan clearly, the patient nods along, signs the discharge papers, and returns three weeks later with the same preventable crisis. The education was accurate. The delivery was compassionate. And it did not work. The problem is not clinical knowledge. The problem is that traditional patient education relies on a communication model that research has shown fails to change behavior in ambivalent patients.

Motivational Interviewing: The Mis...