Family Nursing Competencies:
Generalist
1. Enhance and promote family health.
2. Focus nursing practice on families’ strengths; the support
of family and individual growth; the improvement of family
self-management abilities; the facilitation of successful life
transitions; the improvement and management of health;
and the mobilization of family resources.
3. Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills
to ensure the quality of nursing care with families in
everyday practice and across every context.
4. Commit to self-reflective practice based on examination of
nurse actions with families and family responses.
5. Practice using an evidence-based approach.