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A survey of six Nigerian nursing program curricula was conducted to determine the extent to which family nursing theory was used as a reference for conceptualizing nursing care in Nigeria. In addition, 25 nurse clinicians were purposively selected from three levels of primary, secondary, and tertiary health care units in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and were interviewed to determine the extent to which nurses in practice reported using family assessment tools in their practice. The survey of the postgraduate curricula showed that master's and doctorally prepared nurses specializing in community health nursing have a theoretical base in family nursing theory. The limited focus on family nursing theory in basic, postbasic, and first-degree nursing curricula was deemed inadequate to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for all practicing nurses to embrace family-focused care in Nigeria. In nursing practice, families were seen to be involved in nursing care only to the extent of meeting financial and physical care needs of their family members. Findings from this study point to the need for a reorientation of the nursing curricula in Nigeria to include more family nursing theory. Specialized education of family nurse practitioners who would function at all levels of care also is a desirable goal to provide holistic health care to Nigerian families.

Nurses too often encounter battered women, abused children, and other victims of family violence in hospital and emergency room settings. Nurses therefore have a unique and important role to play in the prevention, identification, and mitigation of violence. This newly revised second edition is a landmark resource that provides comprehensive, nursing-focused coverage of intimate partner violence (IPV), child abuse, and more. This textbook provides a detailed overview of all types of family and other violence, including IPV, same-sex IPV, abuse during pregnancy, intimate partner homicide, stalk

This article describes the development and testing of the Family Nursing Practice Scale (FNPS). This self-report questionnaire is designed to measure perceived changes in family nursing practice including attitudes toward working with families, critical appraisal of their family nursing practice and reciprocity in the nurse-family relationship. Categories were derived from a needs assessment, competence as effective application of knowledge and skill and theoretical foundations for family assessment and intervention. Psychometric testing (content, construct validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability) was undertaken with 140 psychiatric nurses in Hong Kong. Practice appraisal and nurse-family relationships accounted for 56.4% of the variance. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients were .88 and .73 for the two subscales, respectively, and .86 for the scale overall. Test-retest reliability ranged from .62 to .93 on the individual items. The results provide preliminary evidence of the reliability and validity of the FNPS. The instrument provides quantitative and qualitative evaluation components.

This article offers a synthesis of the significant developments and progress of family nursing in Sweden. A review was conducted to locate Swedish family nursing research produced over the past 10 years. CINAHL, Medline, and PubMed were the primary databases used to locate approximately 75 family nursing studies conducted in Sweden. The majority of the studies used descriptive methods with data collected from surveys and interviews involving nurses and family members either together or individually. Only a few of the studies examined family nursing interventions. This article also reports the results of a recent survey of Swedish nurses that examined how family nursing is used in practice. After 10 years of creating a strong foundation for family-focused nursing in Sweden, there is still a need for nurse researchers, educators, and administrators to collaborate in the implementation of family nursing to practice.

An innovative opportunity is being created by nursing leaders from practice and education in Iceland to implement Family Systems Nursing at an institutional level on all units and divisions with the Landspitali University Hospital. This article describes the phases of the implementation model for knowledge translation that will be operationalized over four years. The goals of implementing Family Systems Nursing at the Landspitali University Hospital are to (a) educate all practicing nurses in Family Systems Nursing and, in particular, the Calgary family assessment and intervention models; (b) strengthen practicing nurses' clinical skills for intervening with families by offering specific clinical training courses to all nurses using family skills labs; and (c) explore and assess the difference that the theoretical and clinical programs make for the nurses, the patients and their families, and the nurses' practice (the family—nurse relationship).

This article summarizes the efforts of the Department of Nursing Science, University of Tampere, Finland, to advance knowledge about family nursing over the past 15 years. Definitions of family, family nursing, and family nursing science are offered. Programs of research include families' experiences of care received in health care settings, family violence and child maltreatment, and the psychometric development of instruments to assess family functioning and family health. Research is currently examining the effectiveness of family nursing interventions. Recommendations are offered to strengthen collaboration between family nursing researchers, educators, and practitioners at the local level and initiate greater collaboration between family researchers at the interdisciplinary and international levels.

The purpose of the article is to trace the development of family nursing in Scotland and to describe the work of the Family Nursing Network Scotland (FNNS) since its inception in 1997. Although the origins of the early work are in child health nursing, the Network aims to support family nursing research, education, and practice across all areas of the discipline. Original research provided the impetus for an examination of family nursing in Scotland. Recent research has focused on the preparation of nursing students in Scotland for family nursing practice. Initiatives by the FNNS have raised awareness and encouraged the practice of family nursing. Future goals for the development of family nursing in Scotland are discussed.

The essence of nursing lies in the unique interplay of intuition, logical thought, knowledge and compassion for others. Nowadays nurses are required to be competent in a variety of areas ranging from patient physical care to organisation, planning and interpersonal relations. Nurses now have to adapt quickly to changing circumstances for the benefit of the patient and for the benefit of the profession itself. Failing to adapt not only exposes the patient to unnecessary risks but also stultifies professional development. The role of nurses has expanded over the last two decades and is undergoing continuous development in order for it to meet the ever-demanding increasing demands of society. Though a very demanding profession, nursing provides an excellent opportunity for continual professional development or a career path in a wide-ranging variety of areas. Yet due to this diversity and continuous change and evolution in knowledge and development, it is inevitable that legal provisions reflecting these rapid changes are absent. Logically, the most common query is about the nurses' and midwives' position at law. During my talk I shall be tackling this legal perspective from two angles namely: those provisions which provide for the regulation of the profession in so far as qualifications are concerned and secondly other more general provisions which deal with the regulation of the professional's actions. ; N/A

In Brazil, the assistance in family planning keeps the mark of nurses along its history. In 1960, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), created by nurse Margaret Sanger (1952), headquartered in London, came to finance entities that performed family planning in the country. Margaret Sanger led a group of nurses whose mission was to foster social and political reforms that would restore the nurses' practice. These Nursing leaders observed communities, identified health-related needs and priorities, establishing intervention measures whose lessons remain alive, such as dissemination of information on contraceptive methods, which is extremely important to the decision making of men and women in the reproduction field.

Significant developments in family nursing in Japan are described and analyzed beginning with the political and health care legislation in the country that stimulated a need for family nursing and the early adoption of family nursing theories and models by visionary leaders in nursing education. In 1994, Japan was the first country in the world to establish a national family nursing association, the Japanese Association for Research in Family Nursing, that provided the necessary infrastructure and leadership for family nursing in Japan to flourish. The strengths and challenges of family nursing in Japan are identified and a call is made for innovations in nursing curricula as well as global networking of family nurses around the world.