Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research, 3rd Edition (Hanson, Family Health Care Nursing)

The latest edition of this popular text has been totally revised and reorganized with your student's success in mind. You will find new chapters, easy-to-read bulleted chapter summaries, and a new, more colorful design to capture your students' attention. And, an expanded Instructor's Manual will be posted to fadavis.com for easy access. The new edition of this popular text has been revised and reorganized with your success in mind! Inside these pages you'll find new chapters easy-to-read bulleted chapter summaries, and a new, more colorful design.

Key Features

• Completely revised chapters and updated content
• New chapters: Families with Chronic Illness; Genomics, Family Nursing, and Families Across the Life Span; International Family Nursing; and Family and Health Demographics
• Enhanced section on Web references and community resources
• A comprehensive overview of family nursing that links family theory and research to clinical practice
• Encompasses broad definitions of families, including nuclear, cohabitating individuals, single parents, blended, gay, as well as cultural differences
• Clinical case studies that illustrate intervention including health promotion
• Research boxes included in all chapters

Awarded first place in the 2014 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Child Health category! Prepare for the real world of family nursing care! Explore family nursing the way it is practiced todaywith 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. The purpose of Family Health Care Nursing : Theory, Practice, and Research, 2nd Edition is to provide a foundation in the concepts of family health care nursing and to learn how these concepts and theories are practiced in the traditional specialties within the nursing profession. It is appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students who need a foundation in family health care nursing. (Midwest) Reorganized with students' success in mind, this book contains new chapters, easy-to-read bulleted chapter summaries, and colourful design to capture students' attention.