F.A. Davis Company

Significantly updated and thoroughly revised, the 4th Edition approaches family nursing the way it is practiced today—with an evidence-based, clinical focus built on a firm foundation of theory and research. From health promotion to end of life, a new organizational structure parallels the trajectory of illness, incorporating caring for the family along this continuum of care in a variety of specialties.

• A comprehensive overview of family nursing that links family theory and research to clinical implementation.
• Clinical case studies that illustrate interventions, including health promotion.
• Lists of web references and community resources.
• Tables, quotations, and boxes that highlight critical information.

Unit 1: Foundations in Family Health Care Nursing

1. Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction
2. Demography and Family Health
3. Theoretical Foundations for the Nursing Families
4. Family Nursing Process: Family Nursing Assessment Models
5. Family Social Policy and Health Disparities

Unit 2: Families Across the Health Continuum

6. Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care of Families
7. Canadian Context of Family Nursing
8. Genomics and Family Nursing Across the Life Span
9. Family Health Promotion
10. Families with Chronic Illness
11. Families in Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Unit 3: Nursing Care of Families in Clinical Areas

12. Family Nursing with Childbearing Families
13. Family Child Health Nursing
14. Nurses and Families in Adult Medical-Surgical Settings
15. Gerontological Family Nursing
16. Family Mental Health Nursing
17. Families and Community/Public Health Nursing
18. Nursing Care of Families in Disaster and War

Unit 4: Looking to the Future

19. Advancing family Nursing

Appendix A: Family Systems Stressor Strength Inventory
Appendix B: The Friedman Family Assessment Model
Index

• A new, evidence-based, clinical focus with more emphasis on today’s families.
• Family nursing chapters organized by trajectory of illness and based on evidence-based reviews of the literature and nursing interventions effective in everyday practice.
• Discussions of four theoretical models, Family Ecological Theory • Family Resiliency Model • Family Systems Model • Family Life Cycle Model.
• Two new chapters, Family Social Policy and Health Disparities and Families in Disaster.
• A genogram and an ecomap in each clinical chapter, as well as suggestions for other screening assessment tools, when appropriate.
• Two online chapters, Research in Families and Family Nursing and International Family Nursing. [Are these chapter titles correct?
• Expanded Canadian-specific content throughout.
• Coverage of families dealing with end-of-life issues now in a single chapter.