Families
- Families have inherent competencies, strengths, and unique interactional processes that influence family health beliefs, goals, and actions.
- All families have the capacity for transforming their quality of life and family health.
- All verbal & non-verbal family communication is meaningful.
- All families possess a cultural heritage that is integral to family health and family life.
Essential Theoretical/Knowledge background:
- Family nursing theories
- Family development theory
- Family Systems theory
- Reciprocal nature (mutual influence) of the individual
- Nurse-family relationship development
- Family interventive questioning skills
- How to have a therapeutic conversation
- Clinical assessment, decision-making, and intervention skills with families
- Use of current evidence-based and practice-based literature related to the family health experience and family nursing interventions
- Culturally sensitive approach that incorporates each family's context and cultural practices