Imagine this. You are a nurse and you are sitting in a room with several family members,
including the family member who is being cared for in your health care facility or community …

The “One Question Question,” first coined by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright in 1989, is an
interventive question designed to elicit family members' most pressing needs or concerns …

I've been thinking a lot about the struggle we have in family nursing to make ideas “stick.” In
my work, I invite nurses to change their beliefs and behavior about families and reap the …

Therapeutic letters, a distinct written intervention in the genre of family therapy and family
systems nursing, have been attributed almost startling anecdotal nomination of value in …

Time is of the essence in nursing practice. Major changes in health care delivery, budgetary
constraints, and staff cutbacks have required new ideas for involving families. Rather than …

This Special Issue about the Illness Beliefs Model (IBM; Wright & Bell, 2009) is a tribute to
the power and potential for healing through therapeutic conversations between nurses and …

Thanks to advances in the science of intimate relationships (Bell, 2011; Gottman, 2001;
Gottman, Gottman, & DeClaire, 2007; Parker-Pope, 2010) as well as a plethora of self-help …

I believe that the Journal of Family Nursing needs a stronger emphasis on the specifics of
helping and healing families by examining, in detail, those caring interventions that alleviate …

The purpose of this article is to describe the application of the 15-minute family interview to
family-centered nursing practice on a postpartum unit. Guided by the five key components of …

Across North America, academics, administrators, and practitioners alike areinvolvedina
dialogueaboutadvanced nursingpractice (Ameri-can Nurses Association, 1992; Calkin …