Explore family nursing the way it's practiced today--with a theory-guided, evidence-based approach to care throughout the family life cycle that responds to the needs of families and adapts to the changing dynamics of the health care system. From health promotion to end of life, a streamlined organization delivers the clinical guidance you need to care for families.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Contributors
• Reviewers
• UNIT 1 Foundations in Family Health Care Nursing
• chapter 1 Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction - Joanna Rowe Kaakinen, PhD, RN
• chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations for the Nursing of Families - Joanna Rowe Kaakinen, PhD, RN
• chapter 3 Family Demography: Continuity and Change in North American Families, - Lynne M. Casper, PhD, Alli Coritz, PhD Candidate
• chapter 4 Family Policy: The Intersection of Family Policies, Health Disparities, and Health Care Policies, Deborah Padgett Coehlo, PhD, C-PNP, PMHS, CFLE, Tammy L. Henderson, PhD, CFLE, Chuck Lester, MPH Candidate
• chapter 5 Family Nursing Assessment and Intervention - Joanna Rowe Kaakinen, PhD, RN
• UNIT 2 Families Across the Health Continuum
• chapter 6 Family Health Promotion - YeounSoo Kim-Godwin, PhD, MPH, CNE, RN, Melissa Robinson, PhD, RN
• chapter 7 Nursing Care of LGBTQ Families - Judith A. MacDonnell, BScN, RN, MEd, PhD, Mary E. Bartlett, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AAHIVs, Aaron Tabacco, PhD, RN
• chapter 8 Genomics and Family Nursing Across the Life Span - Marcia Van Riper, PhD, RN, FAAN, Louise Fleming, PhD, RN
• chapter 9 Families Living With Chronic Illness - Jacqueline F. Webb, DNP, FNP-BC, RN, Maria Elena Ruiz, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, Kimberly E. Kintz, DNP, ANP-BC, RN
• chapter 10 Families in Palliative and End-of-Life Care - Carole A. Robinson, PhD, RN, Rose Steele, PhD, RN, Kimberley A. Widger, PhD, RN, CHPCN(C), Melissa Robinson, PhD, RN
• chapter 11 Trauma and Family Nursing - Deborah Padgett Coehlo, PhD, C-PNP, PMHS, CFLE, Henny Breen, PhD, RN, CNE, COI
• UNIT 3 Nursing Care of Families in Clinical Areas
• chapter 12 Family Nursing With Childbearing Families - Linda Veltri, PhD, RN, Karline Wilson-Mitchell, DNP, MSN, CNM, RN, RM, Joyce M. O'Mahony, RN, PhD
• chapter 13 Family Child Health Nursing - Deborah Padgett Coehlo, PhD, C-PNP, PMHS, CFLE
• chapter 14 Family Nursing in Acute Care Adult Settings - Paul S. Smith, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNE, Melissa Robinson, PhD, RN
• chapter 15 Family Health in Midand Later Life - Diana L. White, PhD, Juliana C. Cartwright, PhD, RN
• chapter 16 Family Mental Health Nursing - Laura S. Rodgers, PhD, PMHNP-BC
• chapter 17 Families and Community and Public Health Nursing - Linda L. Eddy, PhD, RN, ARNP, Annette Bailey, PhD, RN, Dawn Doutrich, PhD, RN
• References