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Family Nursing Research Instruments Developed by Family Nurses

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted” ~Albert Einstein Measuring how families function in health and illness has been explored in several scholarly books and journal articles.  I would like to highlight the important work that several of my family nursing colleagues are doing to develop [...]

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 [...]

Top 10 Movies about Families and Illness Suffering

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I’ve found movies to be powerful learning experiences for my students and myself. Movies highlight family stories about the experience of illness, draw the viewer into the poignancy and loneliness of illness suffering, and model how family members and health care professionals respond to illness in [...]

My Story Starts Here…

Every family has a story; every story has a family… They say that every story is told differently, depending on the audience. Here is my story. I come from a large, extended, matriarchal family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and many cousins who have enriched my life within a network of supportive, nurturing relationships. In my [...]