Tag Archives: clinical skills for caring for families

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 Externship workshop: A Life-Changing Moment

Dr. Lorraine Wright and I (along with our colleagues Wendy Watson Nelson and Nancy Moules) have offered the Family Externship Workshop since 1987. I just had lunch with a nurse who completed the Externship workshop in 2001. She came to the workshop disillusioned with her nursing career and with well developed plans to leave nursing [...]