Overview
Family nursing is a field of nursing practice and inquiry that treats the family, rather than only the individual patient, as the unit of care. It rests on the premise that family members are interdependent and that the health of one affects the health and functioning of the whole, so assessment and intervention extend to family structure, roles, relationships, and coping. Drawing on nursing theory, systems thinking, and frameworks such as contextual action theory, family nursing applies evidence-based practice to health promotion, illness prevention, and the management of acute and chronic conditions across the lifespan and across settings from the home to intensive and specialized hospital care. Practitioners engage families in shared decision-making, education, and support, addressing communication, caregiving burden, and the coordination of care among nurses, patients, and unlicensed assistive personnel. The field also encompasses the holistic and ethical dimensions of practice, including risk management during care delivery, patient safety, and the attitudes and knowledge nurses bring to sensitive issues such as organ donation. Research in family nursing examines how nursing actions influence family adaptation and outcomes, often through qualitative and phenomenological methods that capture lived experience. As a discipline it intersects clinical, community, and practical nursing, emphasizing relationship-centred, context-sensitive care.
Research published in this journal
5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Risk Management: Emerging critical issues during the hospital administration of drug therapy
Contextual Action Theory in Nursing
Nurses Working with Unlicensed Assistive Personnel: A Phenomenological Study
How this research is being cited
The 5 articles above have been cited 4 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Oct 2025.
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2024 · Archiv Euromedica
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Łukasz Czapiewski et al. · 2024 · Archiv Euromedica
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2020 · International Journal of Nursing Education
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R. George et al. · 2020 · International Journal of Nursing Education
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