Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention - Hardcover

Wright, Lorraine M.; Leahey, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803696051 ISBN 13: 9780803696051

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company, 2000

Synopsis

Offering specific guidelines for nurses when preparing for, conducting, and documenting family meetings from initial interview through discharge, this guide provides practical "how to" guidelines for assessment and interventions with families. The focus on practical applications for clinical practice offers the opportunity for students to promote improved health care with families. Includes the revised Calgary Family Assessment Model.

About this title

Synopsis:

This text offers practical "how to" applications for the nursing of today's families and includes the updated Calgary Family Assessment Model. The family development life cycle is expanded to include the divorce and post-divorce life cycle, the remarried family life cycle, the adoptive, family life cycle, and the comparison of professional and low-income family life cycle. The book also supplies detailed clinical guidelines of how to prepare, conduct and document a family interview.

About the Author:

Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD, International Lecturer, Professor Emeritus of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Maureen Leahey, RN, PhD, Manager, Mental Health Outpatient Program, Alberta Health Services, Calgary; Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculties of Nursing and Medicine (Psychiatry), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0803696051
• ISBN 13: 9780803696051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250