Dear Family Nursing colleagues: As 2014 draws to a close, I want to say THANK YOU for all of the hard work and expertise you are contributing to ADVANCE FAMILY NURSING in your practice, in your teaching, and through your research. Here is some of the Family Health & Healing News that I would like to highlight: JOURNAL OF…
Honoring the outstanding contributions of my family nursing colleagues around the world who have helped to develop and advance family nursing has been a joyful privilege for me as Editor of the Journal of Family Nursing. I had the pleasure of first recognizing and offering Family Nursing Awards to outstanding family nursing scholars in 2005 at…
Competencies for Family Nursing Practice <---> CORE BELIEFS "There are numerous beliefs operating and emerging within every person every day, about every situation, and every person encountered. But not all beliefs matter in daily life; not all beliefs invite an emotional or physiological response. But the beliefs that do matter are our core beliefs... Core beliefs…
Please join me in congratulating Lorraine Wright on her NEW BOOK about marriage, based on her therapeutic conversations with couples over many years: "Don't Get Married...Unless: Know When, to Whom and IF You Should Tie the Knot--and How to Fortify Your Marriage Once You Do". Copies of the book are available through Amazon.com, 4th Floor Press, or directly from Lorraine Wright. A Kindle edition is…
Family Health Nursing Conference, Berlin, October 2012 In October 2012, I presented a keynote at the Family Health Nursing International Conference (http://www.uws.ac.uk/familyhealthnursingconference2012/) in Berlin, Germany. This conference showcased the two-year European funded project led by Professor Paul Martin, University of the West of Scotland, to revitalize the WHO vision for creating a new kind of "generalist…
The International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) launched a NEW Webinar Series on May 2, 2012 with the goal of increasing communication and collaboration in our global family nursing community. I was delighted to offer the first IFNA webinar on May 2, 2012 titled, "Getting to the HEART of Family Nursing Interventions". What I mean by "getting to…
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? Photo compliments of the International Family Nursing Association My dream for our community of family nursing is that we…
Greetings and thanks for dropping by to read this blog. I appreciate the invitation by Dr. Janice M. Bell to write a guest blog about the Calgary Family Assessment Model. But where do I begin? Once upon a time....! Well, how about if I start by telling you how old the model is. In…
Dr. Lorraine Wright and Dr. Nancy Moules providing live supervision with a clinical team observing: Family Nursing Unit, University of Calgary Family Nursing Unit, University of Calgary. Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson and students observing a clinical family nursing session from behind a one-way mirror. Dr. Fabie Duhamel, Denise Latourelle Family Nursing Unit, University of Montreal,…
"I am always saying to myself; that's not right yet. You can do it better - it's rare when I can prevent myself from taking the thing up again... X number of times, the same thing. Sometimes, it becomes an absolute obsession. But for that matter, why would anyone work, if not for that? To…