Family Strengths Focused, Evidence-based Nursing Approaches Across the Globe: Current State of the Science of Family Nursing Practice

The current state of the science of family nursing addressing family strengths articulated through a variety of systematic reviews will be presented. This group of international nurse researchers who conducted and published family-focused reviews will articulate comparisons and contrasts across studies. In addition, specific attention will be paid to the meanings of study findings for culturally safe family strengths-oriented care. Research, theory, education, and policy implications of study findings for family strength-oriented nursing approaches will be addressed. Settings for care represented are the continuum of care from emergency and acute and critical care to the community.