Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention

The ideal how-to book! Innovative ideas to increase critical thinking Practical guidelines for family interviewing Clinical tools, skills and examples Breaches the boundaries of practice, education and research Harness the power of the nurse-family relationship! Use the thoroughly revised evidence-based Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models to competently and compassionately assess and intervene with families experiencing illness, loss, and/or disability. From theory to practice, polish the skills you need to... Use questions in family interviewing more effectively Conduct a fifteen minute family interview Avoid the three most common errors in family nursing Create genograms for families with multiple unions, parents and siblings Prepare, conduct, terminate, and document family interviews