Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD
Family Health & Healing
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Speaking Engagements
Recent Publications

Beliefs and Illness: A Model for Healing (available on Kindle)
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Journal of Family Nursing
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Dr. Bell's Reading List

Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention
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Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Ideas for Healing
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Terrence Real: New Rules of Marriage
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The Tree of Knowledge: the Biological Roots of Human Understanding
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Recent Articles
- The Calgary Family Assessment Model: A True Story (Guest Blog by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright)
- Family Nursing: A Global Snapshot
- Family Externship workshop: A Life-Changing Moment
- Practice Units: Family Systems Perspective to Guide Practice with families experiencing illness
- 5 Hot Tips for Writing Therapeutic Letters
- Illness Beliefs Model – A new book
- Family-Focused Clinical Scholarship
- Top 10 Movies about Families and Illness Suffering
- Family Focused Practice: “Family” is a Misnomer
- My Story Starts Here…
Tag Archives: clinical scholarship
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 [...]
Family-Focused Clinical Scholarship
What is clinical scholarship, you ask? It is a form of knowledge creation that focuses on being immersed in clinical practice, observing practice, analyzing practice, and synthesizing what you have learned from practice (Bell, 2003; Diers, 1995). It is not formal research per se, but a distant cousin; recognized as a form of scholarship but [...]
