Prepare for the real world of family nursing care! Explore family nursing the way it is practiced today-with an evidence-based, clinical focus built on a firm foundation of theory and research. From health promotion to end of life, this text shows how caring for families can be planned based on current evidence of effectiveness. Now with more coverage of chronic disorders and increased emphasis on how to apply what you've learned to clinical practice.

Family health care nursing : an introduction /Joanna Rowe Kaakinen and Shirley May Harmon Hanson -- Family demography : continuity and change in North American families / Lynne M. Casper, Sandra M. Florian, and Peter D. Brandon -- Theoretical foundations for the nursing of families / Joanna Rowe Kaakinen and Shirley May Harmon Hanson -- Family nursing assessment and intervention / Joanna Rowe Kaakinen and Aaron Tabacco -- Family social policy and health disparities / Isolde Daiski, Casey R. Shillam, and Lynne M. Casper -- Relational nursing and family nursing in Canada / Colleen Varcoe and Gweneth Hartrick Doane -- Genomics and family nursing across the life span / Dale Halsey Lea -- Family health promotion / Yeoun Soo Kim-Godwin and Perri J. Bomar -- Families living with chronic illness / Joanna Rowe Kaakinen and Sharon A. Denham -- Families in palliative and end-of-life care / Rose Steele, Carole A. Robinson, and Kimberley A. Widger -- Trauma and family nursing / Deborah Padgett Coehlo -- Family nursing with childbearing families / Linda Veltri, Karline Wilson-Mitchell, and Kathleen Bell -- Family child health nursing / Deborah Padgett Coehlo -- Family nursing in acute care adult settings / Vivian Tong and Joanna Rowe Kaakinen -- Family health in mid and later life / Diana L. and Jeannette O'Brien -- Family mental health nursing / Laura Rodgers -- Families and community/public health nursing / Linda L. Eddy, Annette Bailey, and Dawn Doutrich.