Nursing
• Nurses have a commitment and moral obligation to support family and societal health. Families and nurses hold health beliefs that influence health behaviors.
• Family nurses develop as they co-evolve a sense of their experience and that of the family through relationships.
• The interaction of the caring and informed family nurse and the family working together will facilitate movement toward family health.
• Family Nursing practice acknowledges the reciprocity between family and health; the multiple levels of impact in family health dynamics; and the consideration of the relationships between the family, family members, and nurses, and between families and society (context).
• Family nurses attend to and engage with diverse individual and family needs in all types of health care settings in meeting health and illness care needs.