TY - JOUR
T1 - "I Can Just Be Me"
T2 - Advanced Practice Nursing With Families Experiencing Grief
AU - Thirsk, Lorraine M.
AU - Moules, Nancy J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article depicts one aspect of Lorraine Thirsk’s doctoral dissertation research (supervised by Dr. Nancy Moules), which was supported financially in part by a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Health Research Council of Canada.
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - Nurses have a key role to play in therapeutic interventions for bereaved and grieving families. In this article, hermeneutic inquiry is used to uncover what families found helpful or useful with respect to therapeutic conversations with advanced practice registered nurses. The findings show that nursing expertise is important in family nursing practice. Expertise in the relationship allowed the family to find healing and hope by addressing core constraining beliefs. Clinical judgment, or sense, was significant in guiding the therapeutic conversation. Lastly, how problems are framed and how families are positioned have implications for outcomes and therapeutic change.
AB - Nurses have a key role to play in therapeutic interventions for bereaved and grieving families. In this article, hermeneutic inquiry is used to uncover what families found helpful or useful with respect to therapeutic conversations with advanced practice registered nurses. The findings show that nursing expertise is important in family nursing practice. Expertise in the relationship allowed the family to find healing and hope by addressing core constraining beliefs. Clinical judgment, or sense, was significant in guiding the therapeutic conversation. Lastly, how problems are framed and how families are positioned have implications for outcomes and therapeutic change.
KW - Family Systems Nursing
KW - advanced practice family nursing
KW - family
KW - family nursing interventions
KW - grief
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84872869720&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1074840712471445
DO - 10.1177/1074840712471445
M3 - Journal Article
C2 - 23283800
AN - SCOPUS:84872869720
SN - 1074-8407
VL - 19
SP - 74
EP - 98
JO - Journal of Family Nursing
JF - Journal of Family Nursing
IS - 1
ER -