This study describes the theoretical assumptions and the application for health‐promoting
conversations, as a communication tool for nurses when talking to patients and their …

Beliefs can be described as the lenses through which we view the world. With emerging
illness, beliefs about the illness experience become important for nurses to understand to …

Like a pebble that creates ripples when dropped into still water, depression is a health
problem with an impact that reaches beyond the individual to touch family members. This …

PURPOSE. Mental illness often changes families' lives and relationships forever. A Family
Systems Nursing framework is proposed for working collaboratively with families …

This article focuses on the history of the use of therapeutic letters in the clinical scholarship
of the Family Nursing Unit at the University of Calgary and offers examples of a variety of …

This article is the first of a three-part report of a research study that used hermeneutic inquiry
to examine the effects of childhood cancer on the relationship between the parents of the …

This article embeds a piece of reflective writing and analysis from an undergraduate nursing
student about the integration of course content to practice in the nursing of families …

Much of the work of grief lies in the ways the bereaved learn to maintain connection to the
deceased in their lives, while living alongside the physical absence of them. The theory of …

Jon was four years old: beauti fully and impos sibly preco cious, engaging, taxing and
loving. He was diag nosed with a serious form of leukemia which required very aggres sive …

Despite a plethora of research and published literature on grief, less is understood about the
nature and specifics of the practices in which professionals, particularly nurses, engage in …