The COVID-19 pandemic is creating extraordinary challenges for families, nurses and other health care workers, and countries around the world. IFNA members across the globe are invited to share their experiences and expertise.
IFNA President, Sonja Meiers (USA) and President-Elect, Veronica Swallow (UK) issued a statement to IFNA members about the pandemic that clearly speaks to the suffering of families and nurses and the urgent need for family nursing during this pandemic.
The goal of this COVID-19 Family Nursing Resources page is to share useful information and resources specific to families, nurses, and family nursing.
Resources for Families
- Brené Brown on Comparative Suffering, the 50/50 Myth and Settling the Ball [Unlocking Us Audio Podcast]. March 27, 2020
- Co-Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: by psychologist Stacey Shuster, PhD
- COVID-19 for kids with Olivia Attia. Podcast on The Peter Attia Drive.
- Empowering and Protecting Your Family during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Video]. Family and friends information session by Dr. David Price, physician, Weill Cornell Medical Center, USA. March 22, 2020
- “Families Tackling Tough Times Together” (Family resilience materials, activities and videos). Support for Families to Cope During Pandemic developed by Purdue University
- Is my child or adolescent feeling stressed about COVID-19? from the Hospital for Sick Children.
- How to Help Yourself in this Time of Crisis Now. A handout from the Witness to Witness Program
- Life and Love Under Quarantine: Esther Perel, therapist, author, speaker, and creator of the podcast Where Should We Begin (blog post includes a list of helpful resources related to family coping during COVID-19).
- My Pandemic Story: A guided activity workbook for children, families, teachers and caregivers. The Children’s Psychological Health Center, San Francisco, CA.
- Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, USA.
- Parents’ guide to teaching, entertaining and comforting their children during the lockdown – The Washington Post.
- Robins, S. (2021, April 17). Grace for the storytellers. Blog post. https://www.suerobins.com/post/grace-for-the-storytellers/
- Saline, S. (2020, March 26). Home from college and the novelty’s worn off: Now what? Blog post. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-way-adhd/202003/home-college-and-the-noveltys-worn-now-what
- Supporting children and young people with worries about COVID-19 from Emerging Minds, UK
Resources for Nurses
- Addressing Moral Distress. A handout from the Witness to Witness Program.
- Articles about moral injury like this one from Maguen & Litz (USA) which we anticipate will be important for helping us to understand what some of our colleagues in healthcare and ICU might already be experiencing.
- El-Masri, M. M. (2020). Truth about value of nurses being revealed during COVID-19 crisis”. Guest column, Windsor Star.
- FAMily health in Europe-Research in Nursing (FAME-RN) group (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic: A family affair [Guest Editorial]. Journal of Family Nursing, 26(2), 87-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/1074840720920883
- NEW Gratitude Practice for Nurses Toolkit (2022). https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/Gratitude_Nurses_Toolkit.pdf. The Greater Good Science Center and the American Nurses Foundation.
- How on earth can you help healthcare workers cope during the Covid pandemic? SAGE Journals Blog.
- Ideas for Team De-Brief from the Witness to Witness Program.
- ”I have never felt so helpless”: Front-line workers confront loss. The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/07/health-care-workers-coronavirus-burnout/
- International Council of Nurses (2021, January 13). Mass trauma experienced by the global nursing workforce. https://www.icn.ch/sites/default/files/inline-files/ICN%20COVID19%20update%20report%20FINAL.pdf
- It’s okay not to be okay”. A page of resources from the Intensive Care Society (UK) about supporting staff wellbeing.
- Kennedy, A. (2021). The International Council of Nurses in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Int. Nurs. Rev. 68, 144–146. doi: 10.1111/inr.12681
- “Leaving Early” by Leanne O’Sullivan, a poem in gratitude for health care workers read by Pádraig Ó Tuama (Poetry Unbound Podcast, On Being)
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2019). Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25521
- Selman, L. E., Chao, D., Sowden, R., Marshall, S., Chamberlain, C., & Koffman, J. (2020). Bereavement support on the frontline of COVID-19: Recommendations for hospital clinicians. Journal of Pain Symptom Management, 60(2), e81-e86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.04.024
- Thorne, S. (2020). Nursing in uncertain times. Nursing Inquiry, 27(2), e12352. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12352
- What seven ICU nurses want you to know about the battle against covid-19 (December 2020). Washington Post. https://wapo.st/3vuz7rl
- Writing an Ethical Will: https://s3.amazonaws.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/sites/86411/downloads/ayGVbdlRRyaWlL17O6by_EthicalWill_NurtureCo.pdf
Resources for Family Nursing
International Family Nursing Association (IFNA). (2015). IFNA Position Statement on Generalist Competencies for Family Nursing Practice. https://internationalfamilynursing.org/2015/07/31/ifna-position-statement-on-generalist-competencies-for-family-nursing-practice/
International Family Nursing Association (IFNA). (2017). IFNA Position Statement on Advanced Practice Competencies for Family Nursing. Retrieved from https://internationalfamilynursing.org/2017/05/19/advanced-practice-competencies/
Ambiguous Loss Resources Collection featuring the work of Dr. Pauline Boss has been collated by the National Council on Family Relations.
NEW Boss, P. (2021). The myth of closure: Ambiguous loss in a time of pandemic and change. W. W. Norton.
Brock, R. L., & Laifer, L. M. (2020). Family science in the context of COVID-19 pandemic: Solutions and new directions. Family Process, 59(3), 1007-1017. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12582 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Diamond, R. M., Brown, K. S., & Miranda, J. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 on the perinatal period through a Biopsychosocial Systemic Framework. Contemporary Family Therapy, 42, 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-020-09544-8
Epidemics and Health Disparities in African American Communities sponsored by The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University.
FAMily health in Europe-Research in Nursing (FAME-RN) group (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic: A family affair [Guest Editorial]. Journal of Family Nursing, 26(2), 87-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/1074840720920883
NEW Feinberg, M. E., Mogle, J.A. Lee, J.-K., Tornello, S. L., Hostetler, M. L., Cifelli, J. A., Bai, S., & Hotez, E. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parent, child, and family functioning. Family Process. Advance online publication. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/10.1111/famp.12649
Fraenkel, P., & Cho, W. L. (2020). Reaching up, down, in, and around: Couple and family coping during the coronavirus pandemic. Family Process, 59(3), 847-864. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12570 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
NEW Grant, Adam (2021). Feeling blah during the pandemic? It’s called languishing. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html
Günther‐Bel, C., Vilaregut, A., Carratala, E., Torras‐Garat, S., & Pérez‐Testor, C. (2020). A mixed‐method study of individual, couple and parental functioning during the State‐regulated COVID‐19 Lockdown in Spain. Family Process, 59(3), 1060-1079. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12585 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Imber-Black, E. (2020). Rituals in the time of COVID-19: Imagination, responsiveness, and the human spirit. Family Process, 59(3), 912-921. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12581 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Kazak, A. E., Alderfer, M., Enlow, P. T., Lewis, A. M., Vega, G., Barakat, L., Kassam-Adams, N., Pai, A., Canter, K. S., Hildenbrand, A. K., McDonnell, G. A., Price, J., Schultz, C., Sood, E., & Phan, T.-L. (2021). COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales: Factor structure and initial psychometrics. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, jsab026. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab026
Lebow, J. L. (2020). Covid-19, families, and family therapy: Shining light into the darkness. Family Process, 59(3), 825-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12590 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Lebow, J. L. (2020). The challenges of COVID-19 for divorcing and post-divorce families. Family Process, 59(3), 967-973. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12574 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Maness, S. B., Merrell, L., Thompson, E. L., Griner, S. B., Kline, N., & Wheldon, C. (2021). Social determinants of health and health disparities: COVID-19 exposures and mortality among African American people in the United States. Public Health Reports, 136(1), 18-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033354920969169
McPeake, J., & Pattison, N. (2020). COVID-19: Moving beyond the pandemic [Editorial]. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(10), 2447-2449. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14438
Robins, S. (2018). Make space for the suffering [Guest Editorial]. Journal of Family Nursing, 24(1), 3-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/1074840717754300
Rolland, J. (2020). COVID-19 pandemic: Applying a multi-systemic lens. Family Process, 59(3), 922-936. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-020-09544-8 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Usher, K., Bhullar, N., Durkin, J., Gyamfi, N., & Jackson, D. (2020 Family violence and COVID‐19: Increased vulnerability and reduced options for support [Editorial]. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 29(4), 549-552. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12735
Walsh, F. (2016). Applying a Family Resilience Framework in training, practice, and research: Mastering the art of the possible. Family Process, 55(4), 616-632. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12260 [Access this article through ResearchGate]
Walsh, F. (2020). Loss and resilience in the time of COVID-19: Meaning making, hope, and transcendence.
Family Process, 59(3), 898-911. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12588 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Watson, M. F., Bacigalupe, G., Daneshpour, M., Han, W.-J., Parra-Cardona, R. (2020). COVID-19 Interconnectedness: Health inequity, the climate crisis, and collective trauma. Family Process, 59(3), 832-846. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12572 [Special Issue: COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy]
Wright, L. M. (2017). Suffering and spirituality: The path to illness healing. 4th Floor Press. http://www.lorrainewright.com/publications/books/suffering-spirituality/
Wright, L. M. (2020, April 2). Conquering fear during social-distancing or self-quarantine: Even fearing the disappearance of popcorn [Blog post]. https://www.lorrainewright.com/2020/04/02/conquering-fear/
Wright, L. M. (2020, May 4). The hijacking of mourning rituals: Is Covid-19 world reviving healing rituals? [Blog post]. http://www.lorrainewright.com/2020/05/04/the-hijacking-of-mourning-rituals/
Wright, L. M., & Leahey, M. (1999). Maximizing time, minimizing suffering: The 15-minute (or less) family interview. Journal of Family Nursing, 5(3), 259-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/107484079900500302
