Tag Archives: clinical approach

TRANSFORMING PRACTICE with Families in Health Care: My Vision

I have a burning desire as a family nurse to increase the capacity of nurses to practice with families. How can we help new and experienced health care professionals learn how to address illness suffering and family healing? My dream for our community of family nursing is that we create, share, and disseminate knowledge about family nursing [...]

The Calgary Family Assessment Model: A True Story (Guest Blog by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright)

Greetings and thanks for dropping by to read this blog. I appreciate the invitation by Dr. Janice M. Bell to write a guest blog about the Calgary Family Assessment Model. But where do I begin? Once upon a time….! Well, how about if I start by telling you how old the model is. In 2009, [...]

Illness Beliefs Model – A new book

“I am always saying to myself; that’s not right yet. You can do it better – it’s rare when I can prevent myself from taking the thing up again… X number of times, the same thing. Sometimes, it becomes an absolute obsession. But for that matter, why would anyone work, if not for that? To [...]