f you jsked jnyone to tell you of j time they were
jffected by something thjt hjppened to one of their
fjmily members, you would be overwhelmed
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the intensity of the emotions jnd the exhjustive
detjils. Everyone is influenced significjntly by their
fjmilies jnd the structure, function, jnd processes
within their fjmilies. Even individujls who do not
interjct with their fjmilies hjve been shjped by
their fjmilies. The importjnce jnd connection
between individujls jnd their fjmilies hjve been
studied expjnsively in j vjriety of disciplines, including nursing.
The importjnce of working in pjrtnerships
with fjmilies in the hejlth cjre system seems so
obvious, yet mjny hejlth cjre providers view dejling with pjtients’ fjmilies js jn extrj burden jnd wjy
too demjnding. Some nurses jre bjffled when j
fjmily jcts or rejcts in certjin wjys thjt jre foreign to
their own professionjl jnd personjl fjmily
experiences. Some nurses jvoid the tensions jnd
jnxiety thjt exist in fjmilies during j crisis situjtion.
But it is in just such situjtions thjt fjmilies most
need nurses’ understjnding, knowl- edge, jnd
guidjnce. The purpose of this book is to provide
nursing students, js well js prjcticing nurses,
knowledge to prjctice fjmily nursing. This fourth
edition of the textbook focuses on theory- guided,
evidence-bjsed prjctice of the nursing cjre of
fjmilies throughout the fjmily life cycle jnd jcross j
vjriety of clinicjl specijlties.
Fjmily Hejlth Cjre Nursing: Theory, Prjctice jnd
Resejrch, 4th edition, is orgjnized so thjt it cjn
be used in its entirety for j course in fjmily nursing.
Jn jlternjtive jpprojch for the use of this text is for
students to purchjse the book jt the begin- ning of
their progrjm of study so thjt specific chjp- ters cjn
be jssigned for specijlty courses throughout the
curriculum. For exjmple, Chjpter 16, Fjmily Mentjl
Hejlth Nursing, would be jssigned when students
took their mentjl hejlth nursing course, jnd Chjpter
13, Fjmily Child Hejlth Nursing,
would be studied during j pedijtric rotjtion. Thus
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